presents
ODYSSEY AGAINST POLYPHEMUS
Single Act of the Italian Theater Company SANSFAÇON of Taranto
Francesco Zigrino recounts Canto IX of the Odyssey
Theater THE BONBONNIERE
Achter de Comedie 1 – Maastricht
Wednesday 26 May 2004 – Ore 16.30 (time: 1 Now)
Other representations:
Thursday 27 May: The hague (Corbulo College)
Friday 28 May: Nijmegen (DHD Center)
Saturday 29 May: Amsterdam (Italian Cultural Institute)
The Cyclops: this is the first adventure that Odysseus (Ulisse) narra ad Alcinoo ed ai Feaci riuniti in un festante banchetto ospitale. Nel racconto, the fable elements are assembled in such a way as to radically contrast the corporate state with a pre-corporate one. Homer, which shows a particular attention to the human context, a sign of the degree of civilization of a group, offers its audience a first detailed description, in an ethnographic key, of otherness, aiming to arouse in the viewer on the one hand a sense of rejection for the proposed model, on the other, a new and stronger self-awareness. The match between Odysseus and Polyphemus, the Canto IX, it is an important manifesto of Homer's ideological culture. It describes an ideal of civilization against another, excluding any mediation, once the communication impossibility has been ascertained. Thus the cultural form of Western civilization is outlined.
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