📅 From June 20 to July 20, 2025
📍Great Theatre of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii (NA)
Never before in this historical moment have we felt the danger of culture being marginalized or, even worse, its action being nullified and crushed by the weight of war, or by the power game of massacre. Instead, culture must continue to be, beyond any rhetoric, an essential instrument of freedom. Pompeii Theatrum Mundi is the festival where the great classical heritage and contemporary artistic vision meet. It is no coincidence that this edition opens with a great director of dialogue like Amos Gitai with his Golem, a creation that revisits the myth as an artifice to protect minorities from destruction and persecution. Inspired by a children’s story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, which the writer dedicated to the oppressed of the world against iniquitous decrees, and entrusted to a mosaic of languages, including Yiddish, the language that went up in smoke in the German crematoriums, Gitai’s show is performed by a cosmopolitan company. Two classic titles follow, Sophocles’ Electra directed by me with the performance of Sonia Bergamasco, and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata directed by Serena Sinigaglia and performed by Lella Costa. One of Sophocles’ last great tragedies, built entirely on a heroine of suffering, that Electra who continues to be a symbol of female sensitivity in every age, and one of the most irresistible comedies like Lysistrata, a hilarious device devised by a woman to stop the war. For dance, the Morricone Night, a tribute to a beloved and legendary composer like Ennio Morricone, whose music Marcos Morau chooses as the soundtrack of our life, intertwining the wisdom of dance with the magic of cinema.
Roberto Andò
