This Friday, August 26, the Global Day of the Actor and Actress is celebrated in memory of San Ginés of Rome, an actor of the 3rd century, regarded a martyr by Catholic tradition. The story goes that all through a theatrical functionality in front of the Emperor Diocletian and the politicians of the time, the performer mockingly parody the sacrament of Christian baptism and was punished.
The dying of this good individual of the time happened in the year 286, when he was beheaded in Rome on August 26th. Considering the fact that that working day, all the actors are commemorated each and every 26th August. In addition, he is represented with a mask, a image of the theater, and a stringed instrument.
He has motivated excellent artists such as Lope de Vega, who wrote the tragicomedy “Lo fingido Verdadero”, centered on his tale the French playwright Jean de Rotrou established “The Serious Saint Ginés” and Henri Gheon, the drama “The comedian trapped in his comedy”.
In Argentina, on the other hand, the National Actor’s Working day is celebrated on the next Monday of May possibly mainly because founded by legislation 24.171, sanctioned on 30 September 1992. In this norm it was believed that “actors and actresses save the previous by supplying lifetime to famed adult men and gals. of record, anticipate the occasions in which they reside and present us the challenges of each day life via frequent figures that give us nice moments, relocating us or earning us chortle “.
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