Memoirs of Adrian is a performance based on the novel Memoirs of Adrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. This world-renowned text is a first-person account of the life of the Spanish-born Roman emperor. In literary terms, it is a false autobiography. In theatrical terms, therefore, it is a false personification: Adrian does not live in the second century, although he remembers it. This union of planes is the universe of our production. With lyrical language and admiration for his hellenistic profile, Yourcenar recreates the figure of a ruler as wise and magnificent as he is blind and contradictory. Both profiles portray the expression of solitude. Taking this theme as the backbone of the performance, director Beatriz Jaén has created a stage space where the echoes of that solitude resonate in the current context of power, politics, and the creation of a public image.
Lluís Homar is Adrian; Adrian is also Lluís Homar: an actor of himself in many circumstances, a ceaseless seeker of philosophical answers, and a spiritual traveler. His voice, sometimes secret and sometimes obvious, guides us through that common experience: the pilgrimage of being. Accompanied by an entourage that both guards and imprisons him, Adrian will prepare the legendary speech in which he bequeaths power to Marcus Aurelius. His memoir will be the result of his empire, but also the confession of a man who has touched the limits of human experience.
Memoirs of Adrian is a theatrical performance that simultaneously represents a moving Roman film and the intimate story of a man in dialogue with his story, with History.
Ages 14+
Running time: Approx. 90 min.
