Twenty years after their Oresteia production, Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio pick up the dialogue with Aeschylus once again and return to the Odéon to present one of their founding research works. In conjunction with the Festival d’Automne à Paris, the Odéon has housed six of their works between 2000 and 2006. What new phase will this inward turn signify in the history of one of the most innovative European companies of the last thirty years? The “distorting power” that this genre of show generates is that of the myth itself: making the theatron, “the watching place”, into a spiritual machine, Castellucci stages the “malfunctions of the being in the human framework of an artificial ruin”. In tragedy, “unspeakable horror takes shape in the form of glacial-like beauty”. Here, the effect of its onstage portrayal will be like crossing Medusa’s alluring gaze, without being able to turn away your eyes.
Cast
music Scott Gibbons
lighting made in association with Marco Giusti
automations Giovanna Amoroso and Istvan Zimmermann
set design made in association with Massimiliano Scuto
production manager Massimiliano Peyrone
chief stage manager Lorenzo Martinelli
stage manager Maria Vittoria Bellingeri
stage Stefano Mazzola
sound operator Matteo Braglia \ Andrea Melega
lighting operators Danilo Quattrociocchi
props manager Vito Matera
wardrobe Chiara Bocchini and Carmen Castellucci
Production Benedetta Briglia
technical managers Eugenio Resta, Gionni Gardini
Development and communication Gilda Biasini, Valentina Bertolino
Administrator Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci, Massimiliano Coli
with the collaboration of “Parco faunistico Zoo delle Star” de Daniel Berquiny
Thanks to the Centro Protesi INAIL de Vigorso di Budrio (BO) et ANMIL
executive roduction : Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
In co-production with : Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe ; Festival d’Automne à Paris; MC2 Grenoble ; Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon, Théâtre Nouvelle Génération - Centre dramatique national de Lyon ;
La rose des vents – Scène nationale Lille Métropole à Villeneuve d’Ascq ; Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg / Scène Européenne ; Romaeuropa Festival ; TNT – Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées ; Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne – Toulouse
with the Festival d’Automne à Paris
some scenes of the show may offend the sensibilities of the young, it is not recommended for children under 16.
