But how did it all begin? If it is history we want, then it is a history of conflict. And the conflict begins with the abduction of a girl, or with the sacrifice of a girl. And the one is continually becoming the other. It was the “merchant wolves,” arriving by ship from Phoenicia, who carried off the tauropárthenos from Argos. Tauropárthenos means “the virgin dedicated to the bull.” Her name was Io. Like a beacon signaling from mountain to mountain, this rape lit the bonfire of hatred between the two continents.

From that moment on, Europe and Asia never stopped fighting each other, blow answering blow. Thus the Cretans, “the boars of Ida,” carried off Europa from Asia.

But how did it all begin?

Roberto Calasso

DIRECTOR: Bálint Botos
SCENOGRAPHY: Blanka-Alíz Bajkó
MUSIC: Magor Bocsárdi

CAST:
Gyöngyi Pál Ferenczi, Zsuzsa Gajzágó, Janka Korodi, Gellért Pignitzky, Bence Kónya-Ütő, Áron Beczásy, Tibor Pálffy, Dezső Derzsi, József Kolcsár, László Mátray, Ágnos Benedek, Mária Fekete, Imola P. Magyarosi, Hajnalka Szalma, Zsuzsanna Vass