An evening in the sign of dialogue between the arts: tonight at 9 pm, at the Greek theater in Syracuse, on stage “Na Nuletta ri passions”, An event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the registration of Syracuse and the rock necropolis of Pantalica in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. A sequence of paintings that will move between mythological figures such as Medea, Aretusa, Proserpina and Colapesce, with texts with metamorphosis, Plutarch, Pirandello, Sciascia, Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa and then visual and sound limbs between Nuovo Cinema Paradiso and the Gattopardo.
Alberto Matano and Levante, Vinicio Marchioni and Angelo Madonia, but also Milena Mancini and Massimo Venturiello will be some of the protagonists of the show directed by Giuliano Peparini, back from the success of his Iliad. Three sold out dates that forced the investigation to set other appointments for next year.
In the Iliad of Peparini, the heroes have become prisoners: his direction leverages fragility rather than violence, ideals and humanity rather than legend. War is necessary but without exit. A “poem of war and for war” (as Francesco Morosi reminds that he edited the translation), who manages to be against it. The director and choreographer staged one hundred people by setting the tragedy in a maximum security prison: war is almost always present, but above all it is within the protagonists and their minds.
On the scene an architecture developed on three levels such as the “cell house” of Alcatraz or Sing Sing (in the prison developed by the scenographer Lorenzo Russo Rainaldi): a metal barrier and in the center an opening that can be the entrance of the penitentiary or the city of Troy that turns into a ledwall to project the image of Era (voice of Elena Polica Greco).
The energy gave the energy, the students of the Peparini Academy and the art academy of the ancient drama, namely the two armies, red jacket for Trojans and blue for the Greeks in the costumes designed by Valentina Davoli and Silvia Oliviero.
The story of Aedo, Vinicio Marchioni, at his debut at the Greek theater in Syracuse, was the red thread of memory. From the invocation to the mother, to the battle with Ettore (Gianluca Merolli) to the meeting with King Priam (Danilo Nigrelli), Achille, played by Giuseppe Sartori, now at ease among the ancient stones, was able to be the prisoner in the cage now and immediately after the hero who takes revenge on the death of Patroclo, a convincing Jacopo Sarotti (former student of the School). The penitentiary siren marked the times. Giulia Fiume, Andromaca, in conversation with her Ettore and then, widow, cries him with the chorus of Trojan women (with the mask of Munch). The music of the show, by Beppe Vessicchio, among the Pink Floyd, Haendel and Monteverdi. And in the ledwall the images of the “true” wars, from Gaza to Ukraine.