Details

Valeria Parrella rewrites the story of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sets it in Naples during the 1980s, when the Camorra and its wars run through the city. Agamemnon is a boss on the run, Clytemnestra his woman and Cassandra the daughter of another Mafia gang leader, who controls Troy, a town in the Puglie. The extraordinary intensity of these characters has survived for centuries, from Homer to Yourcenar. They are an inexhaustible and still relevant source of strong emotions and deep reflections. They are concrete symbols of a tragedy that has at its core a woman and her feelings. Such strong feelings, genuine and incontrollable, will sweep away a middle class young woman to turn her into a Camorrista's wife, who will at first be able to take his place in running the gang and then to kill him, for love, like the most bloodthirsty assassin. Maybe unwillingly, women are increasingly hitting these days dramatic headlines, a new disturbing reality that should make us pause and think. This play presents a classic Clytemnestra: the prototype of a woman thorn by Love for a man, by Necessity for the lineage survival, by Hate and Vengeance for what deep down couldn't possibly remain unpunished. In Italian with English surtitles.

Creatives/Company

Author: Valeria Parrella
Producer: Riverside Studios
Director: Cristina Donadio
Other: Mario Martone (mise e scene)
Lighting: Pasquale Mari