Truculentus 1 Latin

Plautus, Truculentus 775-853

In this scene, Callicles interrogates his own slave and the slave of Phronesium, the prostitute next door, in an attempt to find out the identity of the man who impregnated his unwed daughter, and learn the location of the missing baby. Diniarchus, that very man—and the lover of Phronesium—nervously awaits his inevitable exposure.

Version 2: performed in Latin, sung to music composed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad; performance modeled on the mid-twentieth-century melodrama version in English. Clarinet: Tony Sprinkle. Director: Laura Lippman. Musical director: James Hanson. Prologue and epilogue written by Laura Lippman.

Produced at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2012, as part of the NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance," co-directed by Sharon L. James and Timothy J. Moore. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Department of Classics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, provided further funding.

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[bettinajoydeguzman]

Oh my gosh Sharon, you are right— this is quite the earworm, but also, I will never forgot this rhythm!! I’m looking forward to playing this simple melody on my replica Louvre aulos!

[shonnyno]

e pensare che qualche buontempone afferma che gli ictus non erano mai esistiti! ;)