un progetto di Gabriele Russo
durata: 1h 30m | Paese: Italia | Lingue: italiano
Teatro Bellini – 26/09/2012, 20:00 – 27/09/2012, 20:00
Progetto e Regia Gabriele Russo
Produzione Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Fondazione Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Bellini
In a poorly administered Naples, transformed into an open air rubbish dump by an arrogant and corrupt power, the news spreads of the imminent arrival of Ulisse Esposito, an emigrant with a heroic first name and an unmistakably Neapolitan surname, renowned for having toppled some of the most ferocious African régimes. While in the palaces of power panic sets in, in the streets of the city there is great euphoria: the return of Ulisse creates a hope of redemption in the Neapolitan people.
Odissea napoletana is a fresco of Naples and its contradictions reinterpreted in a satirical and grotesque vein through the Greek myth. Both the stage and the auditorium are the places of two different battles: the people on the one hand and power on the other, while the spectator, caught in the centre, is drawn to take an active part in this imaginary society.
The final aim is to demonstrate that the atavistic need of the Neapolitans to entrust their fate to a hero – a leader of the people to whom their dreams and hopes are entrusted – is a mere illusion: true change is possible only if the group moves in unison and together it makes “he-roic” daily actions.
