“The Alcantara gorges they can boast a primogenide in the recent rediscovery of Odyssey: The work was in fact staged in this wonderful natural stage, in 2019 and 2020 “. Carmelo Blancato, mayor of Motta Camastra, said it, the municipality in which the gorges fall, remembering how this 2025 is the year of the Odyssey,” both for the film shot in recent months by Cristopher Nolan in the Aeolian islands, and for the film, the return, of Pasolini, projected in the Italian theaters and Both for the two theatrical versions, to the female “.” We – he concluded – we will do everything so that the success of the first editions is replicated “.
The same will to commit himself to the return of the Kolossal taken from Homer and directed by Giovanni Anfuso can be followed by a vast audience, was expressed by Saints Found, extraordinary commissioner of the Alcantara river park. “We could not fail to support this initiative of great cultural thickness. We have always invested not only in the protection of the environment, in the safeguard, thanks to the work of our offices and municipalities, of these unique places. But we also worked for their enhancement, through a relaunch of tourism in a cultural key: a great satisfaction that half of the spectators of these works were foreigners”.
“Shows such as Odyssey – he underlined – confirm the interest of certain great theatrical productions to open up to stages that are not closed: naturalistic goods of enormous value such as gorges”. And if the organizers continue, as the boom in tickets of tickets underlines, the interest in this very current story is also clear for two themes underlined by the anthropologist Mario Bolognari. “The Odyssey – he explained, remembering how today in the world we fight over fifty wars – was the νόστος, the return to Ulysses’ house, after Troy. A return of an obstacles: the hero himself had changed but, above all, Ithaca was no longer recognizable. The presence of the raides testified to the disorder, the contempt for the rules that arises when the human rights are unloaded. killing the procures ”.
“But, today, the Odyssey – he added – represents a great warning, because it indicates the risk of finding ourselves in a world without that social justice, without which war, daughter of inequalities in the distribution of world wealth, continues to infinity”.
Thus, this fascinating trace of the Alcantara marked by Colonnza Basalto manages to enhance the ancient and modern history of Odysseus, as underlined by Giovanni Anfuso who in these days will begin to try here with the actors. In the main roles we find Davide Sbrogiva (Mature odysseus), Liliana Randi (Athena), Eugenio Papalia (Young Odysseus), Giovanna Mangiù (Circe/Penelope), Luciano Fioretto (Homer), Michele Carvello (Telemaco), Pietro Casano (Zeus/Antinoo). For the moment, very difficult to have previews on the show from the director, but something lets Alessandro Vaccaro escape, of the botanical and geological park of the gorges, speaking of a small ship on the riverbed.
“In the eighth century BC Christ -he explained -, when the odyssey was born according to scholars, the peoples who sailed for the Mediterranean, Sicilian rivers often dates back to seeking, in the hinterland, welcoming places. And this also in Alcantara, which, then, had a very different scope from the current. And this also makes us reflect on the profound change in climatic conditions “.
Together with the protagonists, of the Compagnia di Buongiorno Sicilia, Proci, Ciurma, Feaci, Sirene and Amitters, made staged, in alphabetical order, by Gianmarco Arcadipane (Euriloco/Ctesippo), Gaetano Bonanno (Leocritus), Alex Caramma (Alcinoo/Eumeo), Roberto Carrubba (Eurimaco), Tommaso Cernigliaro are part. (Polide/Demoptolemo), Maria Landaloro (Melanto/Sirena), Enrica La Rosa (Arete/Sirena), Riccardo Leone (Leodode/Polibo), Lucio Rapisarda (Antifoo/Agelao), Francesco Rotoretore (Perimede/Anfimedonte), Gloria Triscitta (Melite/Sirena), and Rocco Vella (Elpinore/Pisandro). The costumes and scenographic elements are signed by Riccardo Cappello, the choreography by Fia di Stefano and the music from Nello Toscano, while the general organization is entrusted to Simone Trischitta. The assistant director are Valeria La Bua and Lucia Rotondo, the choreographer help is Federica Musumeci, the light designer Davide La Colla and the sound designer Enzo Valenti.