From 16 to 26 February, “Io sono Fedra” will debut at the Teatro Tram: the theatre on Via Port'Alba in Naples will bring teachers and students from the theatre workshop on stage and from 16 to 26 February it will stage a rewriting of Euripides' tragedy by Marina Salvetti.
Weaving the plots of a great classic revisited in a contemporary key will be, during the two weeks of programming, Titti Nuzzolese, Antonio Buonanno, Errico Liguori, Antonello Cossia, with the direction of Gianmarco Cesario.
"I Am Phaedra" is a highly contemporary reinterpretation of the tragedy. The play begins, and we're not in Troezen, the Peloponnesian city where the original version of the story is set, but within the walls of a seminary. There are no capricious individuals determining the inevitability of the fates of Phaedra, Theseus, and Hippolytus. Yet the characters move within the same dramatic question: is it possible to escape from ourselves? The answer is in the title.
Who is Phaedra? Her story has been told to us by Euripides, Seneca, Racine, and even D'Annunzio. – explains Marina Salvetti -. But few of us, caught off guard and without Google, would be able to answer this question offhand. Phaedra inhabits the myth but is almost not part of it. She is not Medea, she is not Eurydice or Antigone. She is not even Ariadne who, with her thread, leads Theseus out of the labyrinth. And yet, she is her sister and the wife of the very Theseus who abandons Ariadne on Naxos. Phaedra is the middle child, the second wife, the stepmother to be mocked. She has performed no heroic deeds, she has not committed any cruel revenge. Phaedra tries to do the right thing, desperately trying to distance herself from the breeding ground in which she grew up.
Phaedra does not want to remain trapped in the incestuous and scandalous defects of her family. The desperate attempt to be better than what the world expects of her, combined with the search for an identity that is disappointing in her eyes, make her an extremely modern figure. Phaedra judges herself, punishes herself, hates herself. She does not recognize herself in the woman she has become and that so many love. She feels she is wrong because of her feelings towards the young Hippolytus who detests her. He is the only one who does so, but Phaedra seems to see nothing but that blame. Hippolytus is the only mirror in which she wants to look at herself. The tragic epilogue of the story is the result of Phaedra's desire for self-destruction.
“Bringing the myth on stage is a task that the Theatre has set itself since its origins. – underlines the director Gianmarco Cesario -, and what thrilled me about this operation was the opportunity to work on a modern stage script, which places the crises of today's women and men at the center of the story, but with precise references to the corresponding archetypes of the 5th century BC. The profound psychological and theological study undertaken by the author gave me the opportunity to work freely in the creation of an essential representation in which the role of the actors was fundamental".
FROM 16 TO 19 FEBRUARY 2023
FROM 23 TO 26 FEBRUARY 2023
I AM PHAEDRA
by Marina Salvetti
from Euripides
with Titti Nuzzolese, Antonio Buonanno, Antonello Cossia, Errico Liguori
and the students of the TRAM theatre laboratory: Saverio Di Giorno, Cesare Leonardis, Fabio Paesano, Stefania Palumbo, Eduardo Serafini, Alessandro Rea
directed by Gianmarco Cesario
production Teatro dell'Osso / TRAM
- Tickets: full €13,00 | reduced €10,00 (under 26 and over 65)
- Card 4 shows of your choice: €36
Show times:
- Thursday 21.00pm
- Friday 20.00pm
- Saturday 19.00 hours
- Sunday 18.00 hours
Info and reservations: 342 1785 930 | tel. 081 1875 2126 | email tram.biglietteria@gmail.com
In short
From February 16th to 26th, "Io sono Fedra" debuts at the Teatro Tram: the theater on Via Port'Alba in Naples will welcome teachers and students from the theater workshop to the stage…
- Weaving the plot of a great classic revisited with a contemporary twist, during the two-week program, will be Tweety...
- The play begins and we are not in Troezen, the Peloponnesian city where the original version of the story is set,…
- There are no capricious people who determine the inevitability of the fate of Phaedra, Theseus, and Hippolytus.
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From February 16th to 26th, "Io sono Fedra" debuts at the Teatro Tram: the theater on Via Port'Alba in Naples will welcome teachers and students on stage...
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Weaving the plot of a great classic revisited with a contemporary twist, during the two-week program, will be Tweety...
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The performance begins and we are not in Troezen, the Peloponnesian city where the original version of the story is set, but within the walls…
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