by Ruggero Cappuccio freely inspired by Sophocles’ play
directed by: Rimas Tuminas
with: Claudio Di Palma, Marina Sorrenti, Fulvio Cauteruccio, Franca Abategiovanni, Giulio Cancelli, Davide Paciolla, Rossella Pugliese
Chorus: Nicolò Battista, Martina Carpino, Cinzia Cordella, Simona Fredella, Gianluca Merolli, Enzo Mirone, Francesca Morgante, Erika Pagan, Alessandra Roca, Piera Russo, Lorenzo Scalzo
Produced by: Teatro Stabile Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
From June 27 to June 29, at 21.00
Teatro Grande Pompei
Sophocle’s Oedipus at Colonus is perhaps the finest declination of grief. In the play, the deep roots of mysterious energies that mankind is called to challenge since thousands of years all intertwine. The ‘trans-generational’ passing-on of evil resonates in a poetic form, where philosophy, rituality and free will meet for a fatal appointment. In the re-adapted version by Ruggero Cappuccio we land in a place of memories lost in time. A place where the everlasting traces of classicism are signs reflecting relevant issues from last century: from psychoanalysis to wars, to the struggles of the people reaching out for power.
