Antigone. An African story springs at the end of a three-year training course consisting in a cycle of meetings/laboratories in Saint Louis, Senegal, from 2011 to 2013, that aimed to develop the planning and artistic abilities of young senegalese people in the theatrical field, enriching the educational path concerning the actor’s work as well as encouraging the development of their organisational and technical proficiency. During the Italian performances, the resident group of six senegalese young actors is joined by a [...]

Luca Lazzareschi stars as one of the most fascinating and mysterious characters of Greek mythology, Prometheus, a rebel that refuses to accept the order imposed by Zeus and the new gods, who insist on bending everything at their will. “Avoiding poor actualisations and without looking for a philological reconstruction”, explains director Massimo Luconi in his notes, “Prometheus’ incident can tug at the heartstrings of the contemporary public and, staying true to the inevitable pedagogical value of the story, the hero’s [...]

Only surviving example of a complete trilogy of ancient Greek plays, Aeschylus’ Oresteia tells a three-chapter tale that is deeply rooted into the mythical tradition of ancient Greece: the assassination of Agamemnon, perpetrated by his wife Clytemnestra, the vengeance of their child Orestes who kills his own mother, the persecution of the matricide by the Furies and the final absolution he gets by the Areopagus tribunal. With this two-part production - Agamemnon and The Libation Barers/Eumenides, Luca De Fusco takes [...]

The Bacchae by Euripides is a text that challenges whoever attempts to stage it on a number of levels”, explains director Andrea De Rosa, “the first and most important challenge is that this is the only tragedy in which the main character is a god (Dionysus). How to portray him? How to bring a god on stage? Nietzsche wrote ‘God is dead’ more than a century ago and, in spite of the absurd religious wars that still appear on the [...]

Phaedra is the tragedy of human passion”, explains director Carlo Cerciello in his notes, “the tragedy of a woman who, for love, rises against the social and ethical rules of a society in which she identifies as a ‘privileged’ prisoner. Married to a man who is unfaithful to her, and at whose side she feels like a premature widow, Phaedra sees in the world of her stepson Hippolytus a mirage of freedom and passion for which she is willing to [...]