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Lysistrata
rewriting of Aristophanes
dramaturgy and direction Marco Martinelli
aiuto regia Valeria Pollice, Gianni Vastarella, Vincenzo Salzano
set and lighting design Vincent Longuemare
costume design Roberta Mattera
music Ambrogio Sparagna
performed by Ambrogio Sparagna, Vincenzo Core, Antonio Matrone, Erasmo Treglia, Giordano Treglia
con la collaborazione delle guide teatrali del progetto “Sogno di Volare”
Nunzio Abbruzzese, Ines Mennella, Mirjam D’Ambrosio, Stefania Piedepalumbo
with the participation of the students of the Polo liceale “Ernesto Pascale” di Pompei, Istituto Tecnico “Eugenio Pantaleo” di Torre del Greco, Istituto Tecnico “Renato Elia” di Castellammare di Stabia, Liceo “Giorgio De Chirico” di Torre Annunziata
production Parco Archeologico di Pompei
in collaboration with Ravenna Festival, Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Collettivo LaCorsa
progetto finanziato dalla Fondazione “Ray of Light”
Lysistrata is a new production by Sogno di volare, a project of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in collaboration with the Ravenna Festival, in which Marco Martinelli (seven times winner of the Ubu Prize) has worked with young people from the Vesuvius area on Aristophanes’ comedies. Lysistrata was first performed in Athens in 411 BC, when the city was at war with Sparta and in the midst of a political crisis. Aristophanes again pleaded for peace, but having concluded that men could not be trusted, he placed his hopes in Lysistrata (‘the army disbander’). Thus, while the men are at war, the women gather in secret and are persuaded by Lysistrata to hold a sex strike against their husbands until they bring the war to an end.
