Romans
Marco: Julio
Cesar: Mauricio
Augusto: Chema
Octavio: Saul
Maximo: Angel
Greeks
Aquiles: Daniel
Ulises: Leonardo
Nestor: Alan
Laertes: Hector
Etruscans
Casia: Dany
Cecilia: Sofy
Tita: Xime
Hersilia: Luz
Semia: Diana
Sometime ago in a
parallel universe a group of Romans were talking.
Maximo: I am bored,
what can we do?
Cesar: We can go to
see the gladiators.
Augusto: I like going
to the Coliseum.
Marco: No Augusto, I
am sick of watching that slaves fighting each other.
Cesar: Today it would
be Christians versus lions!
Maximo: That is not
interesting we already know who would be the winner.
(Musical number: Jesus Christ Super Star soundtrack)
Octavio: We should
see what is happening in other worlds.
Augusto: Yes, Octavio
is right; we should travel with the galactic bridge to other planets.
Marco: Let’s step in
and see where it takes us.
They used the bridge
and arrive to the planet of the hockey.
Cesar: What is this
place?
Octavio: All these
people are crazy!
Maximo: What is that
game that they are playing?
Augusto: I don’t
know, we should go somewhere else.
They traveled in the
bridge again and this time they arrived to the planet of the Greeks
Aquiles: Welcome to
planet Greece.
(Musical number: Zorba
dance)
Augusto: We should
conquer this place after all we are warriors
Marco: Not only
warriors, we are the best of the best in the war.
Cesar: Yes, our
people had conquered many other civilizations.
Octavio: We should
destroy this civilization.
Nestor: What?! No! You
can’t destroy us!
Augusto: And why not?
Aquiles: Because we
have awesome theater writers like Sophocles that have invented tragedies and
comedies, you would really enjoy watching them.
Ulises: Yes, we made
the best sculptures, and we also paint pottery.
Nestor: And you copy
all from us.
Cesar: You are lying.
Ulises: NO! he is
telling the truth, you have our same gods, and your sculptures are exactly the
same we did.
Laertes: And we are
so intelligent, we also developed philosophy, medicine, democracy…
Marco: Yes but all
that intelligence won’t help you to stop us of conquering you.
Nestor: He is
probably right, we will need some help. Laertes, go for the Etruscans.
(Musical number:
Etruscan dance)
Octavio: Who are you?
Casia: We are
Etruscan women; in our culture women are as important as men.
Cesar: What?! Are the
men in your culture insane?
Cecilia: Our men are
more intelligent and they know they can’t do anything without us.
Marco: And why are
you here?
Hersilia: Our
ancestors the Villanovans trade their products with the Greeks and the
Phoenicians.
Cecilia: Our ancestors
began doing things the way the Greeks and the Phoenicians did them.
Tita: When they
change their traditions they started to be called Etruscans.
Semia: Some of our
people helped building planet Rome so we are your ancestors.
Aquiles: That is why
we called them.
Nestor: Yes to help
us making you understand that we are all connected.
Ulises: And you can’t
destroy us because you will be destroying part of you.
Maximo: OK you
convinced us, we will go.
Marco: Really!! We
are going to surrender like that?
Maximo: Of course not
Augusto: So why did
you say that?
Maximo: Because is a
trap. Follow me.
The romans are the
Etruscans are talking
Tita: We use painting
and dance in our religious rituals.
Hersilia: We love to
dance.
Aquiles: What about sculpture?
Do you do that too?
Semia: Our people
works the bronze very good, they do human figures and other things with it.
Casia: The romans are
back.
Laertes: What are you
doing here?
Octavio: We came back
to give you a present.
Semia: I don’t trust you.
Octavio: It is
understandable, but please accept our gift as a sign of peace.
Hersilia: Everybody
deserves another opportunity.
Tita: Yes don’t be so
rancorous.
Aquiles: I think
Semia is right to be suspicious.
Ulises: Yes if you
think we are going to fall in your trap you don’t know us.
Laertes: It only
proves that our culture has influenced you.
Aquiles: The trick
that you are trying to use was invented by one of our men.
Laertes: Yes, it was
Homer, he wrote it in the Iliad.
Nestor: Now you
should surrender.
Casia: You have no
other option we have you surrounded.
Cecilia: Understand
that you have to respect all the cultures.
Ulises: At the end we
all have something in common.
Tita: No matter if we
have differences we all deserve the same respect.
Casia: And we all can
be friends.
Cecilia: You have to
commit to respect others.
Hersilia: And to give
back the territories you had conquered.
Romans: Yes, we agree.
Casia: In that case
you are free.
Laertes: Go home and
remember your promise.
Semia: Let’s do a
party to celebrate!
Saul: But we are not
all about war, fights and deaths.
Julio: No, we also
constructed aqueducts to carry water from long distances.
