«The human being evolves into many things but not in all. There is talk of war as we spoke of it at the time of Homer. Behind the wars there are strong feelings such as love and pain. And we will tell them ». Giuliano Peparini presents his new creation, “Iliad”, which debuts in the world premiere on Friday 4 July at the Greek Theater in Syracuse. After “Ulysses, the last odyssey” and “Horai. The 4 seasons », Peparini tells the war using a maximum security prison as a setting. On stage a cast of 90 people, between actors, performers and the students of the Peparini Academy and the art academy of the ancient drama. Three evenings, up to 6, sold out, to stage an immortal text with the translation of Francesco Morosi and the music by Beppe Vessicchio.
«Like Troy, a prison is a closed place where rival groups (the Greeks and the Trojans, or the prison gangs) face in a continuous conflict. In the Iliad, the war is guided by concepts of honor, revenge and respect between warriors. In prison, unwritten rules and codes of honor determine power, respect and retaliation relationships. In the Greek and Trojan fields there are garments. in prison, leader who dictate the law within the factions. In the Iliad, the war ends only with the destruction of Troy, and many characters die. In prison, for many the only way out is to serve the sentence to the end or, in some cases, succumb to internal violence. From Homer, human dynamics have not changed much ».
The protagonists of the co -production of the investigation of the investigation with the archaeological park of Syracuse, Eloro, Villa del Tellaro and Akrai, Vinicio Marchioni, to his debut at the Greek theater in the role of the ADO: “I am excited and proud to do it with an eternal text. Giuliano creates energy on stage. The stage of this theater is ideal for welcoming this energy. The great magic of immortal texts: we all have inside and after more than 2500 years tells us how atrocious war is for everyone ».
A wonderful “entry”, “riding the invocation to the mother”, for Achille played by Giuseppe Sartori (to the last replicas in “Oedipus a Colono”); Gianluca Merolli will be Ettore, Giulia Fiume Andromaca, Danilo Nigrelli Priam, Jacopo Sarotti The shadow of Patroclo, and Elena Policy Greco the voice of Era. The scenes are by Lorenzo Russo Rainaldi, the costumes of Valentina Davoli.