ITALY THEATER
Rome, Jun 4 (EFE) .- The director Carlus Padrissa and the Spanish company La Fura dels Baus will sign their version of “Las Bacantes”, the tragedy of Euripides, in its debut on the poster of the Greek Theater of Syracuse, in Sicily ( southern Italy), which announced today its next two seasons dedicated to classical performances.
The Inda Foundation, which manages the theater, presented season 56 and 57 of shows scheduled at the Greek Theater in Syracuse, which, he assured, wants to give a strong signal of recovery after the postponement of the 2020 season due to the pandemic.
From July 3 to August 21, 2021 there will be three productions on stage: “Coefore Eumenidi” by Aeschylus directed by Davide Livermore, “Las Bacchantes” by Euripides directed by Carlus Padrissa and the comedy “Las Nubes” by Aristophanes under the direction of Antonio Calenda.
In the cast of “Las Bacantes”, which will be staged from July 4 to August 20, there are, among others, Lucia Lavia (Dionysus), Ivan Graziano (Penteo), Stefano Santospago (Cadmo), Linda Gennari (Agave ) and Antonello Fassari (Tiresia).
The 2022 program includes the staging of Sophocles’ Oedipus Re directed by Canadian Robert Carsen, while Davide Livermore from Turin will repeat with Agamemnon, while Jacopo Gassman will direct Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Tauros”.
The Catalan director highlighted in a statement that his Bacchantes will be “free women, women who stubbornly revolutionize everything, rebels who fight to survive in a great mystical moment.”
He anticipated that “dressed in the urban aesthetics of feminist activists” they will be “enveloped by the power of music that, in a great choir, provokes trance in those who sing or those who dance, or in those who accompany them as participants in the celebration. , with and without instruments ”.
While his “Dionysus or Liberator, the god who wishes to redeem the human being from his condition of normality”, “intends to impress an ecological and profound look and preside over the communication between the living and the dead.”
“Levers, cranes, ropes and pulleys will compose a Deus ex machina aesthetic, highlighting the bodies that, together with the natural elements, will help to perceive an old but modern image, strangely recognizable to the viewer”, he advanced.
Although following the anti-contagion security measures, the Greek Theater has managed to expand its capacity to 3,000 spectators for each of the programmed functions.
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