SPETTACOLO-CONCERTO DA/PERFORMANCE-CONCERT ON EURIPIDE
TESTO E REGIA/WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY EMMA DANTE
CON/WITH ELENA BORGOGNI, CARMINE MARINGOLA, SALVATORE D’ONOFRIO, SANDRO MARIA CAMPAGNA, ROBERTO GALBO, DAVIDE CELONA
MUSICHE E CANTI/MUSIC AND SONGS FRATELLI MANCUSO
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN MARCELLO D’AGOSTINO
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION COMPAGNIA SUD COSTA OCCIDENTALE/PALERMO
date/dates 10, 11 luglio/july h 21.00
luogo/venue teatro bellini
durata/running time 1h 10min
lingua/language italiano/italian
paese/country italia/italy
in regione/in campania
12, 13 luglio/july h 21.30 villa d’ayala – valva (sa)
In rewriting Euripides, Emma Dante takes Medea on a voyage which is a “true act of love”: she takes the protagonist on a
“journey towards Medea” as if Medea were a foreign country. Belonging to another family, another class, another nation and religion constitute limits to Medea’s presumed liberty, branding her a foreigner anywhere. She is a barbarian that known no authority but her own instinct. Forced by primordial impulse, she desperately strives for liberty and thus, chooses her own guilt and destiny as dictated by her personal history. First wife and mother of his children, and later abandoned by Jason who leaves to marry the daughter of King Creonte, her revenge is the infanticide of their children, and thus the fate of their city. Medea’s diversity is manifest in her fertility, fecundity, and innate capacity to generate and perpetuate the species in a land inhabited by men sterile and unable to procreate.
