Alexis. Una tragedia greca
Motus
15/10/2010
, 
21:30
16/10/2010
, 21:30
By: Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò
With: Silvia Calderoni, Vladimir Aleksic, Benno Steinegger, Alexandra Sarantopoulou
With the collaboration of: Michalis Traitsis, Giorgina Pilozzi
Assistant to the direction: Nicolas Lehnebach
Music and sound: Andrea Comandini
Technical direction: Valeria Foti
Comunication and press office: Sandra Angelini, Coralba Marrocco
Organization and logistics: Elisa Bartolucci, Valentina Zangari
Produced by: Motus, ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Espace Malraux - Scène Nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie - CARTA BIANCA, Programme Alcotra coopération France Italie, Théâtre National de Bretagne/Rennes and the Festival delle Colline Torinesi
With the support of: Provincia di Rimini, Regione Emilia Romagna, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali
Running time: 1h 20min
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How to transform indignation into action? This simple and vast question urged us on the tracks of Antigone, turning back and listening to her brilliant stubbornness in order to reflect on the present. We worked on recomposing the tragic events into an original script based on writing that was impregnated by the biographies and personal experiences of the actors involved. Over the past year three Contests have been were created – performances understood as confrontations/dialogues between Antigone-Silvia Calderoni and three different actors: Benno Steinegger-Polynices, Vladimir Aleksic-Creon and Gabriella Rusticali-Tiresias, respectively entitled Let The Sunshine In, Too Late! and Iovadovia [I’mgoingaway].
Alexis stands at the end of this itinerary though it presupposes the beginning: in August 2010 were be in Athens to concentrate in a direct and almost documentary way on the “triggering event” which aroused in us the need to shift the Antigone-project in an increasingly declared manner to the theme of contemporary revolts, meaning the death of sixteen year old anarchist Alexandros-Andreas Grigoropoulos (Alexis) which occurred exactly during our first workshop on Antigone… A new Polynices?
Alexis was killed on 6th December 2008 by a bullet to the chest fired by 37 year old policeman Epaminondas Korkoneas in the Exarchia quarter of Athens. This adolescent is being transformed into the new hero-icon of rebellious youth (the Facebook page dedicated to him has 120,713 members to date) and precisely the aspect of “iconisation” of his death is food for reflection. The episode, bloody and violent as it was, seems almost epiphenomenic. Certainly not a chance incident: it was the fuse that led to a chain explosion, and it is easy, though also questionable, to link it with other revolts in European metropolises in recent years… The death of Alexis led a great many other adolescents like him to take to the streets. But why have the protests been so enraged and long lasting?
We want to go back over the “trace of Antigone”, follow in the wake of her journey with Oedipus in order to reconstruct its itineraries in the light of the mutated and overturned geography of our days: an immersion in the tragic reality that is gripping a country so close in vicissitudes and tensions to Italy. We went to the place of this death more than a year after the facts, when the event had been completely forgotten by the grind-all press, when nobody talked any more about what happened during those days (a real uprising), because the whole “Syrma Antigònes” project reflects on the Too late, on the fact of getting there too late, after the irreparable: but is it really too late?
Doing theatre in connexion with the oscillations of the real means being catapulted into the speed of the happening and setting yourself to listen. The outside escapes time and theatre space like a wild animal, but in manifesting itself onstage, with its absolute untameable nature, it charges each appearance with amazement and rage. Amazement and rage that live in this show where we attempt to give voice to Alexis, brother of Antigone, “a Polynices in a Sex Pistols T-shirt”. The stage becomes the place of a choral presence, emotionally moving, which acts on a polyphonic and stratified text of a hybrid and lightning-swift nature: dialogues, interviews, solitary reflections, attempts at translation from Greek into English and Italian, audio and video fragments from the web, descriptions of atmospheres and landscapes, political statements and testimonies. Pieces of a world gone to pieces… We quote a fragment from Ics cruel tales of youth because Alexis is part of this itinerary, a Greek tragedy of today.
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