“If the numbers on tourism in Sicily continue to grow it is because our land is able to provide a complete offer, which also includes cultural events such as theOdyssey in the Alcantara gorges “.
Elvira Amata, regional councilor for tourism and entertainment said it, after witnessing the show produced by Buongiorno Sicilia and directed by Giovanni Anfuso, which boasts the patronage of Department of the Sicilian Region, Federico II Foundation, of the Municipalities of Motta Camastra and Castiglione di Sicilia and the Alcantara river park.
“Sicily – added Elvira Amata – offers a wonderful naturalistic landscape, can boast a food and wine offer that the world envies us, has history, traditions and above all a lot, so much culture, told and to tell. It is what travelers, today, want. And we, in Sicily, are able to offer it, as shown this theatrical work represented in one in one location really amazing natural, capable of exciting. I think this year Giovanni Anfuso has passed. It had been wonderful theHell last year, but this Odyssey It’s magical. “
The commissioner stressed that, to see the show, there were already many tourists. Spoke of Sold out And remember how Odyssey will go on with the replicas until the end of August.
“But I am sure – he concluded – that, as happened in the past years, there will be the need to extend the replicas until September to meet the many requests”.
Numerous declarations of appreciation of those who attended the show “made in theatrical form in a wonder of nature like the gorges”, as the anthropologist Mario Bolognari pointed out, stating that thisOdyssey It can tell us very “on modern man, on contemporaneity, but also on war, on pain”.
“And – he added – on the impossibility of seeking ourselves through the journey, which for Ulysses is fraught with difficulties and temptations, even sexual. Yet, he teaches theOdysseymust return home to recompose the order, dictate the rules of civil coexistence and hospitality, sacred in the Greek world. And to find love. Not for nothing Penelope has the certainty of being in front of her husband only when this shows that you know the secret of their bed “.
The anthropologist then recalled how, in 1975, the Sicilian Stefano D’Arrigo has Written Orcinus Orca“Another testimony of the impossibility of returning”. D’Arrigo, tells of the return of the sailor of the Royal Marina ‘ed. Cambrìa after the Second World War: “The protagonist was changed by the war and his home is no longer the one he had left”. Finally, Bolognari recalled how, in 1922, there had been “that other monument of world literature, theUlysses by James Joyce, with traveling the streets of the Dublin of 1904 over a whole day, without ever being able to reach the goal “.
Meanwhile, while they are already Sold out The shows of 20.30 until August 1st – there is still the availability of tickets for the replicas of 10 pm, at the end of which, usually, the actors dialogue with the public – the debate on social networks testifies to the great interest of the public, which has shown to appreciate not only the representation as a whole – in particular the play of light on the bed of the river and the great boat of Odysseus – but also the evidence of the individual actors.
Starting with Davide Sbrogò, who plays the role of Odysseus Maturo, Liliana Randi, who is Athena, Giovanna Mangiù, who plays Circe and Penelope, and then Eugenio Papalia (young Odysseus), Luciano Fioretto (Homer), Michele Carvello (Telemaco) and Pietro Casano (Zeus/Antinoo).
Applause also for Proci, Ciurma, Feaci, Sirene and Amitters, namely Gianmarco Arcadipane, Gaetano Bonanno, Alex Caramma, Roberto Carrubba, Tommaso Cernigliaro, Maria Landaloro, Enrica La Rosa, Riccardo Leone, Lucio Rapisarda, Francesco Rotatore, Gloria Trischitta and Rocco Vella.
Appreciation for the costumes of Riccardo Cappello, the choreography of Fia Dertefano, the music of Nello Toscano and the scenographic elements of Silver Ruggeri, for the light designer Davide la glue and for Simone Trischitta, to whom the general organization is due. Help director are Valeria La Bua and Lucia Rotondo, choreographer help Federica Musumeci e Sound Designer Enzo Valenti.
As mentioned, Odyssey will now go on stage – also thanks to the support of sponsor Like Amaro Herbae and Puglisauto – until August 31st.