MEDEA E LA LUNA Plays Rome's Teatro India

Medea e la luna (Medea and the Moon) on stage April 6th - 16th 2010 at Rome's Teatro India.

Based on the work The Long Night of Medea by Corrado Alvaro

Adapted by Giancarlo Cauteruccio and Patrizia Zappa Mulas
Directed by Giancarlo Cauteruccio
With Patrizia Zappa Mulas, Fulvio Cauteruccio, Giancarlo Cauteruccio

Production Compagnia teatrale Krypton, Magna Grecia Teatro Festival, Assessorato alla Cultura - Regione Calabria, MiBAC - dipartimento dello Spettacolo, Regione Toscana, Scandicci Cultura, Comune di Firenze in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Metastasio di Prato, Fondazione Corrado Alvaro - San luca RC

Medea e la luna based on The Long Night of Medea by Corrado Alvaro, was originally a homage to the Calabrian writer. It is a work that proposes a new tragic heroine, different from the one created by Euripides or imagined successively by Grillparzer, in whom it is possible to perceive an unexpected contemporaneity.

Medea, embodied by Patrizia Zappa Mulas, is, in the words of Alvaro, "an ancestor of many women who have suffered from racial discrimination and of many others who, rejected by their homeland, wander without a passport from nation to nation and populate concentration and refugee camps. A woman who wanders among the ruins of her own love, rejected and frustrated, claiming her own autonomy in not having to yield to a pre-destined path.
In Cauteruccio's adaptation, the recited parts alternate and blend with musical numbers supported with original music. Ancestral sonorities linked to earth, to memory, through instruments such as the accordion, drums and flutes that create archaic rhythms and that date back to an ancient vocalism, made of simple and profound melodies.

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