Ulysses' gramophone - the Wake is the result of a long work developed in the Mediterranean in the framework of the project Ulysses' routes – for a critique of violence, realized by Astràgali Teatro with the support of the European Union's programme “Culture 2000”. The project has involved Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Albania, Turkey, proposing a reflection, through the theatrical tools, about war and its fundamental, violence, which still marks this sea.
To do that the myth of Ulysses was chosen, through a re-writing of Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, starting from a critical and alternative vision of Ulysses, the man symbol of wandering and travelling, personification of a research of knowledge which is more, indeed, a desire of dominion. Ulysses' travelling, among land and sea, among its jagged costs, in an extraordinary blossoming of islands.
Ulysses' misery is the misery of war and the warlike act that he brings and that condemns him to unrest even places of peace.
Ulysses'gramophone-preparing the Wake is a cyclic performance, presenting different episodes of the Odyssey in each involved country, that have finally converged in the final performance presented along the night between 3 and 4 March in Ulysses' wake, where Astragali's company together with a selected group of actresses and actors coming from Albania, Cyprus, Malta, gave life to a unique performing event. A mixture of images, voices, sounds and different cultures, with the continuous multi-language trace and the idea of sharing which is able to open the gaze, through Homer-Joyce, to the complexity of the contemporary age, to multiplicity and cultural syncretism, fundamental of the meeting through theatre.
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trascrizione da Prokosch a Totò Toma
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Les routes d’Ulysse, pour une critique de la violence: odyssée théâtrale de Fabio Tolledi
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