di Valeria Parrella, Regia Luca De Fusco
durata: 1h 30m | Paese: Italia | Lingue: italiano
Teatro Mercadante – 25/09/2012, 21:00 – 26/09/2012, 21:00
Produzione Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
In coproduzione con Teatro Stabile di Napoli
In collaborazione con Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
Prima assoluta
Antigone is the theatre director Luca De Fusco’s latest work, chosen to open the autumn session of the Festival and contemporaneously, to inaugurate the theatrical season of the Teatro Mer-cadante in Naples. This new production was commissioned to the playwright Valeria Parrella who has written her version of this ancient drama (soon to be published by Giulio Einaudi Editore).
Starting with Sophocles’ tragedy, Parrella’s new adaptation creates a contemporary rendition of Antigone’s vision; her fight to defend nature’s unwritten laws and those of Creon, bent on imposing the force of the State to guarantee the solidity of the polis. According to the author, «the comparison between the legislator – symbolised by Creon – and the citizen represented by Antigone, is relentless […]. If the legislator proceeds by progressive steps then Antigone proceeds haltingly with a series of interrogatives, with the understanding that without a thesis there would be no antithesis. Indeed, she is aware that the name given her by Sophocles contains the origins of the word contrast».
An indissoluble contrast between the law of the state and natural law which is an issues of great pertinence today: «a work of two thousand five hundred years – concludes Parrella – which still offers a key to understanding the world and the human psyche».
