Etna Comics, the season is ready at the Greek Theater

There are four shows scheduled at the Greek Theater of Syracuse in 2022. The packed calendar of performances of the 57th season will kick off on 17 May and will end on 9 July. The first tragedies will be 'Agamemnon' by Aeschylus and 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles, which mark the origin of the history of theater and human consciousness. It will then be the turn of Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris' and the Oresteia trilogy’ curated by Marina Valensise under the supervision of Davide Livermore. The Syracuse Days will be repeated this year too, in which residents of the province of Syracuse will be able to purchase two tickets at the price of 15 euro.

AGAMEMNON

Agamemnon, directed by Davide Livermore, will be on stage in May at the Greek Theatre, (from 17 al 31); 5 dates in June (from 2 al 12 among the most important sector events in Italy) and the 5 July, with seven replies. The protagonist is the veteran who finds nothing in his house of what he had left and what he expected, re arrogant, with a marked destiny. In the palace of Argos, a system of fires warns that Troy has been taken. Agamemnon's return is eagerly awaited, preceded by a herald who narrates the labors of the war and the arduous return. Clytemnestra has been preparing the murder of her husband for some time, who had sacrificed his firstborn to her. Agamemnon enters the scene bringing with him the concubine Cassandra, which prophesies the imminent regicide without being believed. She is slaughtered together with the king by Clytemnestra who takes power alongside her lover Egisto.

EDIPUS RE

For Oedipus the king, directed by Robert Carsen, are provided 19 reruns from 18 May to 3 July. It is the story of a foreigner who had defeated the Sphinx ten years earlier and who now reigns in Thebes, married to Jocasta and father of four children. Led by a priest, his subjects ask him for help against the plague that devastates the city. At first Oedipus seeks the cause indicated by the oracle, the assassin of the previous king, laius, then his becomes the search for his own identity, that a messenger reveals to him different from what he thought. A cross investigation ultimately leads to the truth. Oedipus is the son of Laius, unknowingly killed his father, married his mother and fathered four sons-brothers.

INFLUENCE IN TAURIDE

The show, directed by Jacopo Gassman, will be staged at the Greek Theater from 17 June to 4 July for ten reruns. The first daughter of Agamemnon, Iphigenia, that everyone believes dead, lives in the remote Tauride. The goddess Artemis had saved her, replacing it with a doe and taking it away from Aulis at the moment when the father was sacrificing it. Iphigenia narrates it in the prologue, describing her painful condition as priestess of Artemis, foreigner in a foreign country, forced into human sacrifices. Brother Orestes, fleeing from the Erinyes, he lands in Tauris with Pylades and escapes sacrifice because he recognizes his sister. The three mock the local king, Toante, and flee to sea.

THE ORESTEA

The trilogy, directed by Davide Livermore, will be on stage at the Greek Theater on a single date, the 9 July.

Agamemnon

The drama opens the “Oresteia” trilogy. In the palace of Argos, a system of fires warns that Troy has been taken. Agamemnon's return is eagerly awaited, preceded by a herald who narrates the labors of the war and the arduous return. Clytemnestra has been preparing the murder of her husband for some time, who had sacrificed his firstborn to her. Agamemnon enters the scene bringing with him the concubine Cassandra, which prophesies the imminent regicide without being believed. She is slaughtered together with the king by Clytemnestra who takes power alongside her lover Egisto.

Coephor/Eumenides

Orestes, son of Agamemnon, after ten years he returns to Argos and his palace, whose throne is usurped by the murderers of his father, that is, the mother Clytemnestra and her lover Egisto. At the tomb of the slain king he meets maids who pour libations for the dead, le Coefore, with his sister Elettra. With them invoked the protection of the slain king, Oreste kills Egisto first and then his mother. The furious bitches of Clytemnestra, the Erinyes, they persecute him relentlessly from Argos to Delphi, where the last act takes place. He comes out of the Apollo temple, who defends Oreste, in search of purification, against the Erinyes, excited by the ghost of the murdered queen. Oreste runs away again, towards Athens, where the goddess Athena entrusts the judgment on him to a new institution,a court whose jurors will have to decide whether to acquit or condemn Oreste. Thanks to Athena's vote, which is worth double, Orestes is acquitted and the Erinyes adapt to the new course, By disguising Eumenides (benevolent).

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