Aristophanes' Acharnians on stage at the Amphitheatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Saturday 30 July for Teatri di Pietra.
A continuous game of changing identities and roles celebrates classical comedy, which amplifies and deforms, at times, the original spirit of the author.
The Teatri di Pietra in Campania 2022 events continue, which will host, on Saturday 30 July 2022 at 21.00:XNUMX pm, in the suggestive archaeological site of the Amphitheatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the show Acarnesi by Aristophanes in the adaptation by Anton Giulio Calenda and Alessandro Di Murro, directed by Alessandro Di Murro.
Presented by Gruppo della Creta, the original production will see Matteo Baronchelli, Alessio Esposito, Amedeo Monda and Laura Panni on stage, in a continuous game of changing identities and roles.
Aristophanes, with his tragic and paroxysmal irony, deals in the Acharnians with one of the great themes that characterizes all his work: concrete peace, not the utopian peace of tradition.
For him, Peace is not a state of deadly calm but of Dionysian celebration, in his world one eats and drinks, one fucks and mocks. The stinging target of laughter and fun is the pettiness of those who speculate with war, and tears are only allowed to the poor soldiers who go to die on the battlefields.
The chorus of Acharnians, old heroes of a distant war, initially despise Diceopolis, the protagonist of the comedy, who, on his own, has stipulated peace with the enemy Sparta. But the old men, scene after scene, let themselves be convinced and understand that peace is the only true joy worth fighting for.
The text continually speaks of an external enemy who in fact turns out to be undefined and invisible. Everyone blames Him for the evil that afflicts them, but the enemy does not appear, is not on the scene, because a real enemy does not exist.
Instead, there are political dynamics that can always take advantage of the presence of an “enemy”, such as informers, corrupt ambassadors, merchants of death, ambiguous generals, spies, traitors and many others (how topical these inventions are).
The enemy, the “Useful” one, knows how to transform and survive over the centuries, it is never defeated. That enemy has come to us in great shape and in different forms, alien forms always able to blend in with the deepest, most radical and unconscious fears of men. The enemy always appears ready to threaten what we love.
War is never a beautiful fresco, but always a representation of lacerating inhumanity, terrifying faces, expressions devoid of humanity. It is an empty stage without actors. So it is, so it was, we must always hope for the future.
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Article published on 27 July 2022 - 12:23
