#laculturanonsiferma. Antonio Latella and the myth of the Atreides
From Saturday May, 23rd, the eight pièce composing Saint-Ecstasy. The Atreides: eight family portraits by Antonio Latella will be available on ERTonAIR, the page of ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro website gathering all the initiatives the Foundation is realizing in these days of lockdown, and on EmiliaRomagnaCreativa, in the schedule of #laculturanonsiferma.
Every day at 06:00 pm, a new chapter online until Sunday May, 31st, when it will be possible to see the eight performances in a marathon from 03:00 pm on.
The videos, curated by Lucio Fiorentino, will remain available on ERTonAIR until June, 30th.
Conceived as the inspiration subject of a Professional Acting and Playwriting Course focusing on Greek tragedy, directed for Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione by Antonio Latella in 2016, Saint-Ecstasy has overcome all expectations proving to be a complete work, widely and unanimously appreciated by audience and critics, representing a real theatrical ‘case’. In 2016 it was awarded two Ubu Prize - “Performance of the Year” and “New actor, actress, performer (under 35)” to the whole cast, in 2017 it was guest of the Festival d’Avignon and in 2018 of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
During the five months of work with sixteen actors and seven playwrights, Antonio Latella worked as a pedagogue, showing absolute commitment and inspiration. He investigated the myth of the Atreides in its most gloomy shades by developing a new language both in acting and dramaturgy.
Saint-Ecstasy stages the theme of family and of generation gap. Fathers, mothers, and sons are simultaneously present as characters but, all of them, acted by a group of sixteen young actors.
The saga of the Atreides started with a challenge to the gods, based on the original gesture by a father, Tantalus, ready to sacrifice his son, Pelops. This marks the curse for the whole ancestry that calls into question themes as struggle for power, revenge, burden of guilt, announced catastrophe.
The group created a precious work of original re-writing under the supervision by dramatists and Latella’s collaborators Federico Bellini and Linda Dalisi. Eight plays were produced, single and connected, each one dedicated to a mythologic figure, mainly drawing from Euripides and Sophocles, but also from Aeschylus and Seneca, and even drawing inspiration from Pasolini, Beckett, Simone Weil, and Angelopoulos for the final part.
Schedule:
May, 23 h 06:00 pm
Iphigenia in Aulis (running time 1h40)
May, 24 h 06:00 pm
Helen (running time 1h45)
May, 25 h 06:00 pm
Agamemnon (running time 1h15)
May, 26 h 06:00 pm
Electra (running time 1h50)
May, 27 h 06:00 pm
Orestes (running time 1h50)
May, 28 h 06:00 pm
Eumenides (running time 1h)
May, 29 h 06:00 pm
Iphigenia in Tauris (running time 1h40)
May, 30 h 06:00 pm
Chrysothemis (running time 1h)
May, 31 from 03:00 pm on
all performances marathon