PROMETEO

PALERMO Sala Grande Teatro Biondo 22 + 23 October 2021
BREMEN Theater Bremen Kleines Haus 16 + 17 November 2022
TUNIS 23ème session des Journées Théâtrales de Carthage 5 + 6 Dicember 2022
HAMMAMET Ouverture du 57ème Festival International de Hammamet 8 Juilet 2023

PROMETHEUS | The blue kangaroo

based on a tragedy of AESCHYLUS
Adaptation | Direction and Scenography SIMONE MANNINO
With JAMEL MADANI | SIMONA MALATO | AYMEN MABROUK | PAOLO MANNINA | MARIEM SAYEH | GIORGIO COPPONE | CHIARA MUSCATO
Texts LORENZO MARSILI | SIMONE MANNINO
Original music and Sound design GAETANO DRAGOTTA
Costume design PHILIPPE BERSON
Technical direction JESSE GAGLIARDI
Stage manager GIULIANA DI GREGORIO
Assistant costume designer SHARY TADDEI
Costume production SARTORIA PIPI
Set collaborators RICCARDO BRUGNONE | VITTORIO PITRELLI | ANDREA MANNINO | PABLO CRICHTON
Assistant director ALESSANDRO PANTORNO
Translation into Arabic PATRIZIA SPALLINO | PAOLO LA MANTIA | YOUSRA HADDAWI
Production management GIOVANNA LA BARBERA
Distribution VALENTINA BERTOLINO
Communication ROSSELLA PUCCIO

As part of the international project BETWEEN LAND & SEA 2021- 2023
With the support of KULTURSTIFTUNG DES BUNDES
Co-production THEATER BREMEN
Promoted by STUDIO RIZOMA
Production ATELIER NOSTRA SIGNORA

Philosophical tragedy, aesthetic manifesto and political drama in three movements, in an original rewriting freely inspired by the figure of Prometheus.
The myth of Prometheus is one of the most powerful tales of humanity’s mastery of nature and technology. It has been reinterpreted countless times since Aeschylus, by Goethe, Shelley, Gide and Pavese among others – always in the service of a new self-analysis of a society undergoing profound change. With the impending climate crisis and the worsening human rights crisis in the Mediterranean, the time has come for a reinterpretation of the myth.

The new theatrical creation directed by Sicilian-born director and set designer Simone Mannino, written with political writer Lorenzo Marsili in collaboration with a transnational ensemble of artists based in Italy and Tunis, literally throws Prometheus from the cliff into the sea. Reversing the element of fire into its opposite, Prometheus is fished out of the water and imprisoned in an aseptic space by a humanity that has now replaced the gods. The Titan, reunited with Hermes, his roommate, and visited by numerous apparitions, will confront fundamental questions about human nature. In a time of an incipient climatic collapse and a profound systemic crisis, the work explores the relationship with the flame of techne, oscillating between instrument of liberation and new slavery. It tackles the parable of progress and infinite growth, offering a vision capable of overcoming the dominion of man over man and of man over nature.

Photo Rossella Puccio

Photo JTC Ala Ben Hamad