Holy Ecstasy
Atreidæ: eight family portraits

a special project directed by Antonio Latella
with Alessandro Bay Rossi, Barbara Chichiarelli, Marta Cortellazzo Wiel, Ludovico Fededegni, Mariasilvia Greco, Christian La Rosa, Leonardo Lidi, Alexis Aliosha Massine, Barbara Mattavelli, Gianpaolo Pasqualino, Federica Rosellini, Andrea Sorrentino, Emanuele Turetta, Isacco Venturini, Ilaria Matilde Vigna, Giuliana Vigogna
playwrights Riccardo Baudino, Martina Folena, Matteo Luoni, Camilla Mattiuzzo, Francesca Merli, Silvia Rigon, Pablo Solari
project playwrights Federico Bellini and Linda Dalisi
set and costumes Graziella Pepe
music Franco Visioli
lights Tommaso Checcucci
duels, movements and choreography Francesco Manetti
videos Lucio Fiorentino
assistant to the project Brunella Giolivo

production Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
with the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena

Duration 10h (part 1) and 8h (part 2)
Played in Italian with English subtitles

These seven playwrights and sixteen actors, selected by director Antonio Latella among over 500 candidates for his Professional Training Course, have been working for five months on a project concerning the Atreides ancestry, thus investigating tragedy in its origins and limits. Santa Estasi (Holy Ecstasy), the title chosen for the project, focuses on the condition of actors who experience words, myth, archetypes, fragmentation of thought at any level. It also stands for the Erinyes’ fever affecting those who defy their own limits and destiny to define his own self. Under the direction of Antonio Latella, this special project results in one big play including eight movements, eight ‘family portraits’, that will take place for the second time after the debut in Modena (from April to June 2016) with a special marathon.

14 October

Ifigenia in Aulide
from Seneca’s Thyestes and Euripide’s Iphigenia at Aulis

Elena
from Le Troiane and Euripide’s Elena

Agamennone
from Eschilo

Elettra
from Euripide

15 October

Oreste
from Euripide

Eumenidi
from Eschilo

Ifigenia in Tauride
from Euripide

Crisotemi
by Linda Dalisi

 

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