Our performances

Our traditional performances

  • „The stories and course of the gladiator games” – an informative play with duels and the explanation of the happenings around said duels.
  • „The vain judge and the gladiators” – made colourful with jokey scenes, with paired, serial and group fights.
  • „Captions from the stories of gladiator games”- in which we showed the famous and notorious Caesars’ deeds in the arena.
  • The listed performances are about 40 minutes long, consisting of 7 – 8 fights. The number of characters is 6 – 7.

Our performances show the gladiator games and who can fight against who leaning on our historical and archaeological findings.

To the inviter’s needs we can flexibly preform in our productions from the duels listed here:

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Classical gladiator arms’ duels:

  • Murmillo – Thraex
  • Thraex - Thraex
  • Provocator – Provocator
  • Provocator – Murmillo
  • Secutor – Retiarius
  • Murmillo – Hoplomachus
  • Thraex - Hoplomachus
  • Murmillo – Murmillo

Unique duels:

  • Crupellarius – Murmillo
  • Scissor – Retiarius
  • Laquearius – Secutor
  • Andabates – Andabates
  • Demacherius - Demacherius
  • Sagittarius – Sagittarius
  • Venatio /The bear and the hunter, a jokey duel./
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Within our performances we show the ceremonies accompanying the gladiator games in ancient times. For the professional presentation we use a tent as our setting, which hides the changing gladiators and those who are waiting to step in the arena. We accompany our performances with SYNAULIA’s band’ reconstructed music from Rome using the inviter’s amplifications. In Europe’s countries with different languages, we ask a native person and an expert in elocution to narrate our performances.

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Living history lessons

Since 1990 we have been giving unorthodox history lessons in primary-, middle- and high schools within these topics:

  • The origin of gladiator games, the religious and political background and their process.
  • The role of religion in the Roman society. The spreading of cults and their mixing.
  • Civilian life in the empire.
  • Life in the Roman Pannonia.
  • Civilian and military buildings in the empire.
  • Eloquence and music in the antique times.
  • Fate and the powers forming our fates in our lives. /The theme of the classmaster’s lesson./ . Rome’s finances
  • Roman agriculture
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The lessons listed above all were illustrated with pictures, videos, physical- and sound materials.

Performer: János Weixelbaum museum educator