ORTIGIA FESTIVAL 4

World premiere of The Odyssey from 13 - 17 July by Nobel Prize for literature DEREK WALCOTT, an epic story between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean with a cast of Italian, Spanish and Caribbean actors and the blind singer Billy Blue, Walcott’s version of Homer, who sings accompanied by the Caribbean steel band.

TADEUSZ KANTOR's ground-breaking cricotage Let the artists die can be seen in a unique digital restauration that combines visual materials from 1975 up to 1990, year of the Polish director's death. 13 - 17 & 19 - 24 July

Italian premiere of Edeyen, directed by FAUSTO RUSSO ALESI, one of the most promissing young directors of Italy, and written by the up-and-coming writer LETIZIA RUSSO.13 - 14 July

 

The Catalan group ELS COMEDIANTS delights with fantastic stories from Arabian Nights 21 - 24 July in one of their unconfundable choral spectacles.

In collaboration with American actress and singer HELGA DAVIS, PETER BOTTAZZI presents the viusal poem Nel punto immobile del mondo che ruota, inspired by T.S. Eliot and Heiner Müller. 21 - 24 July

MARIO GAS, actor and director, considered one of the masters of Spanish contemporary theatre, turns Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy into a modern relecture of human justice on political background. 27 - 28 July

 

 

In occasion of the bicentinary of Hans Christina Andersen's birth, London cult band THE TIGER LILLIES proposes a humorous musical version of Little Match Girl 28 - 31 July

Last but not least La Girandola, a comedy between heaven and earth directed by the Sicilian RENATO RANDAZZO. 2 - 3 August

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