Lisistrata
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© Mario Spada
In the latest chapter of his non-school, Marco Martinello brings to the stage a choir of 120 youngsters in the most celebrated pacifist utopia of classic theatre: in 5th century BCE, women decide to rebel against war through a paradoxical denial of sex.
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Teatro Studio Melato
Marco Martinelli returns to the Piccolo with Lisistrata, a new chapter in the Sogno di volare project, founded in 2022 in Pompei. Created with the participation of adolescents from the Vesuvius area, the play comes to Milan in a brand-new and choral form, involving the youngsters from the workshops organised by Olinda, which operates within the Paolo Pini ex-psychiatric hospital in Milan.
The project draws inspiration from Aristophanes, the father of Western comedy or rather, as Martinelli writes in the director’s notes, “a furious adolescent” who, at the age of eighteen, began writing in protest of the war that savaged Athens.
Taking to the stage with a choir of 120 adolescents, Lisistrata draws on the inventiveness of the comedian as well as the creativity of the young actors, who embrace the celebrated story, interweaving the pacifist fight with the dream of an alternative world: if men continue to perpetuate war, then women will “undo the armies” with a paradoxical denial of sex.
«Over the more than thirty years in which, since the early Nineties, I invented the non-school, in Ravenna – commented the director – adolescents have not changed: they are still magnificent, fragile creatures, filled with dreams and fears, desire and darkness, which adult society continues to ignore».
Duration: 1 hour and 10 minutes without intermission
Marco Martinelli returns to the Piccolo with Lisistrata, a new chapter in the Sogno di volare project, founded in 2022 in Pompei. Created with the participation of adolescents from the Vesuvius area, the play comes to Milan in a brand-new and choral form, involving the youngsters from the workshops organised by Olinda, which operates within the Paolo Pini ex-psychiatric hospital in Milan.
The project draws inspiration from Aristophanes, the father of Western comedy or rather, as Martinelli writes in the director’s notes, “a furious adolescent” who, at the age of eighteen, began writing in protest of the war that savaged Athens.
Taking to the stage with a choir of 120 adolescents, Lisistrata draws on the inventiveness of the comedian as well as the creativity of the young actors, who embrace the celebrated story, interweaving the pacifist fight with the dream of an alternative world: if men continue to perpetuate war, then women will “undo the armies” with a paradoxical denial of sex.
«Over the more than thirty years in which, since the early Nineties, I invented the non-school, in Ravenna – commented the director – adolescents have not changed: they are still magnificent, fragile creatures, filled with dreams and fears, desire and darkness, which adult society continues to ignore».
Duration: 1 hour and 10 minutes without intermission
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
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© Mario Spada
Credits
Lisistrata
adaptation from Aristophanes
a project curated by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director of the Parco Archeologico di Pompei
written and directed by Marco Martinelli
director’s assistants Valeria Pollice, Gianni Vastarella
music Ambrogio Sparagna
space and lighting Vincent Longuemare
costumes Roberta Mattera
stage director’s assistant Vincenzo Salzano
music performed by Ambrogio Sparagna, Antonio Matrone, Vincenzo Core, Raffaello Simeoni and Alessia Salvucci
technician Theo Longuemare
theatre guides Nunzio Abruzzese, Ines Mennella, Mirjam D’Ambrosio and Stefania Piedepalumbo
with the participation of students from Liceo ‘’E. Pascal’’, Pompei; Istituto ‘’E. Pantaleo’’, Torre del Greco; Istituto “R. Elia”, Castellammare di Stabia; Liceo ‘’G. De Chirico’’, Torre Annunziata
head of production Emilio Vita
production assistants Stefania Catalano and Enrico Vita
theatre programme by Annamaria Sapienza and Iari Iovine, and the students from the “Dietro le quinte” Writing Workshop (“Sogno di Volare” project)
photography Mario Spada
a Parco Archeologico di Pompei production
in collaboration with Ravenna Festival, Albe/Ravenna Teatro, Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Collettivo LaCorsa, Olinda / TeatroLaCucina
with the moral patronage of the Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences, Università di Salerno
PRICES
Category of performance: Hosted Show
Stalls full price € 33 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 21
Balcony full price € 26 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 18
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