With the participation of directors and curators in collaboration with IIC Edimburgh and the Dublin Festival ClassicsNow
We are delighted to invite you on April 5th to a roundtable of renowned guests who will reveal what the 57th season of the Greek Theatre in Siracusa has in store.
Marina Valensise (CEO INDA), Jacopo Gassmann (director of “Iphigenia in Tauride”), Giorgio Ieranò (translator of “Iphigenia in Tauride”) will meet Mirko Canevaro (Lecturer of Greek history at the University of Edimburgh).
An open session with questions and comments by Helen Meany (Director of ClassicsNow Festival Ireland) e Davide Amendola (Scuola Normale in Pisa, former Trinity College Dublino) will follow.
Free Event in English.
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The 57th season of the INDA Foundation at the Greek Theatre (17 May – 9 July 2022) will open with the staging of two tragedies, ‘Agamemnon’ by Aeschylus (458 BC) directed by Davide Livermore and translated by Walter Lapini and ‘Oedipus Rex’ by Sophocles (415 BC) directed by Robert Carsen and translated by Francesco Morosi, which mark the origin of the history of theatre and of human consciousness.
Agamemnon, the veteran who finds nothing in his home that he had left behind and expected, the arrogant king with a marked destiny. Oedipus conducts his search for truth without any limits, giving rise to the longest recognition in the history of theatre. Both are caught by the unexpected in the most tragic of ways. And in a different form, the unexpected also dominates the third tragedy scheduled for 2022, ‘Iphigenia in Tauride’ by Euripides directed by Jacopo Gassmann and translated by Giorgio Ieranò, which takes place in unusual places, such as today’s Crimea, incredible twists and turns, escape by sea and a happy ending.
With this work, the mechanisms of deception and mockery, destined, with Menander and Plautus, to give life to modern comedy, break into tragedy. The staging of the complete trilogy of the ‘Orestea’ directed by Davide Livermore, i.e. the chain of vendettas of ‘Agamemnon’, ‘Coephoras’ and ‘Eumenides’, and the story of a man, a lineage and a political cycle beyond history, will close the season.
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