"Women of the Iliad" Volterra: then and now

7/13/201509/6/2015Natalia Dantas

Roman Theatre Festival of Volterra, protagonists, the July 12, 2015, "women of the Iliad – Pathos/love/graphics/myth/war ", in a quiet reading and significant other, ever declaimed by Alice Arcuri and Rachel Caldwell, a valuable text by Andrea Del Ponte, based on Homer and the Greek tragedians, directed by Monica Avolio. Interesting visual combination, including voice of Helen and Greek verses, which sometimes revealed an aspect of educational work, more than spectacular.

The objective has been achieved, pointing his finger at the eternal condition of women, always subjected to violence, of Exchange, of harassment. Famous symbols of that condition, current today more than ever, women of the Iliad come together in a time span between myth and history, today's events with the everlasting struggle that women themselves must lead to redemption and the conquest of dignity and equality. “A different key by reading a different way to stage the great female characters who were born with Homer, they then route the whole itinerary of Greek and Latin literature up to invest the whole of European literature. The show was created using images, sounds and dynamics related to "four elements" of the Hellenic tradition: water, Earth, air, fire. They represent the realms of the cosmos, in which all things exist and coexist and are dedicated to the introduction of individual characters with the following matches: Briseis – water/air/land/Hecuba – Andromache – Cassandra – fire. Elena by Ritsos is reserved, in the prologue, the “fifth element "Hindu and Oriental traditions, termed" divine thing "or" ether "or" void ", it represents all things that are not perceived to" this dimension ". Starting from the position of women in the ancient world, nell’ "epilogue" was discussed de la "women" and of his condition today, presenting it in a social context, cultural, geographical and poetic, broad and varied, shifting the spectator yesterday, to our cities, their miseries and their contradictions. “The show aims to stimulate the Viewer to a broader reflexion on the issues of gender and society, expanding their gaze on the human condition, a comicdo beyond history, beyond the individual stories, beyond space, beyond time ". (Monica Avolio and Andrew Lanza). © Natalia Dantas