One of the best known and loved texts by William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” returns to the stage from today to the 16th at the Teatro Stabile in Catania, with the famous translation by Agostino Lombardo from Messina and adaptation and direction by the Argentine Alfredo Arias. The protagonist of the play – which opens the theater season “The power of dreams” – Graziano Piazza, who is the Duke of Milan Prospero, magician and ruler of the island on which the castaways of a storm that he himself unleashed land. The actress who plays her daughter Miranda is from Messina, Rosaria Salvatico, born in 1997, graduated from the Inda Academy of Syracuse and former student of Angelo Campolo’s workshops with the Daf Association. In 2023 she was directed in the theater by Mario Incudine and Moni Ovadia in “Liolà” and was in the cast of the Canale 5 drama “Vanina – Un vice-chief in Catania”.
In the show, Salvatico is a young woman totally invested with wonder, compassion and pity, and alien to any negative feelings: «Miranda finds herself on this island alone with her father, the monster Caliban (Rita Fuoco Salonia) and the spirit Ariel (Guia Jelo) – she tells us – and she knows no other human being. His growth path will begin from this storm which is actually a storm of the soul, visible and internal at the same time. The first person she will actually meet besides her father will be Prince Ferdinand (Lorenzo Parrotto), her first love and future husband.”
A positive and complex character, who fits fully into the nature of the plot.
«A girl who is not afraid to discover life, knows how to clash with her father, and even the relationship between the two is full of symbolism. We understand the parent’s difficulty in letting go of the daughter and at the same time preparing for the separation; even the spirits serving Prospero have their own symbolism and represent the relationship of slavery.”
Is there a contemporaneity of the character?
«We must always bring the roles back to the contemporary: I take the character’s wonder as a starting point for reflection on today, in which we have lost so much of this wonder: perhaps knowing too much, in an era in which we question technological tools, such as Chat Gpt, takes away from us the wonder that is in her. Miranda doesn’t know, and can afford this “ignorance”.
Production by Teatro Stabile di Catania, Marche Teatro, Tieffe Teatro and TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa with Estate Teatrale Veronese.