Esperienze di teatro Greco a Cagliari: dal 'diario di bordo' di una navigazione a vista

MUREDDU, PATRIZIA

2011-01-01

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Abstract

The first theatre workshop related to the Greek Literature course was held in Cagliari during the academic year 2002-2003, when a re-reading of Aristophanes’ The Knights – (Lu Cavaglieri, that is Sausages in Power) – was performed in the classroom under the direction of Gaetano Marino. With the same director, we then performed Antigone’s Trial, accompanied by a discussion on the social, religious and juridical aspects of Sophocles’ tragedy (May 2004), Women in Power, an adaptation of Ecclesiazusae (2004-2005), and Orestes, from Myth to Madness (2005-2006). In 2005, the idea of broadening the concept of “art” to include literature as well gave rise to the annual event Words in Past, with readings from Erodotus (If a Night... Stories from The Herodotus and Once Upon a Time a King, Other Stories from Herodotus), Plato (Symposium, Socrates’s Apology), as well as from Theocritus, Homer, Apollonius Rhodius. In the past few years, the two experiments have been integrated: in the theatre workshop, students were joined by professional actors and actresses, who worked side by side with them in Pluto and Lysistrata (December 2009) and in a “test for production” (December 2010) which included scenes from Thesmophoriazuzae, The Enchantress and Women from Syracuse by Theocritus, and an interpretation of Medea by two actors.