{"id":4154,"date":"2024-10-20T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/in-the-kingdom-of-cyprus-a-theatrical-satire-of-300-years-of-frankish-ruling\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:26:18","slug":"in-the-kingdom-of-cyprus-a-theatrical-satire-of-300-years-of-frankish-ruling","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/in-the-kingdom-of-cyprus-a-theatrical-satire-of-300-years-of-frankish-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Kingdom of Cyprus. A theatrical satire of 300 years of  Frankish ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A peculiar \u2013 as far as the theatrical form is concerned \u2013 play, that reclaims the revue model (but doesn\u2019t have the genre\u2019s short-term, ephemeral character). Two characters act as narrators; the (western) Troubadour who describes the political events as recorded in the official historical writings, and the Cypriot folk-poet who tells the story from the people\u2019s perspective. The play attempts to ridicule the games of power and economic exploitation played in the name of supposedly high purposes, such as the Crusades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mood is satirical. The text \u2013 at times in verse and rhyming and others in prose \u2013 is interspersed by lyrics written over music taken from the Cypriot folk tradition. The narrative and dialogue\u2019s fifteen-syllable meter alternates with lyrics whose meter follows the familiar melody, upon which the insertion song is based. Humorous or bitter allusions to contemporary historical reality permeate the play.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>There are approximately 50 characters in the play: kings, queens, merchants, religious leaders etc. The playwright suggests a plan for casting so that the play can be staged with ten to eleven actors, in such a way that the same actor plays all the corresponding roles (for example, all the kings) \u201cso that, by not changing the actor, it becomes obvious that all the various conquerors are essentially the same,\u201d as he notes in the introductory stage directions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the Kingdom of Cyprus. A theatrical satire of 300 years of  Frankish ruling<\/p>\n<p>10 minimum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11,12],"class_list":["post-4154","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-general-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}