Giocasta

“If you were to offer two possibilities, whether you want to reign or save the city, you would say that you want to reign… reign… reign…” – Phoenicians, Euripides

“Humans are chimpanzee that when they get drunk with power lose control.” – Kurt Vonnegut

A feminine gaze on the horror of war, a mother trying to make her children reason, the ambition for power that we are all subjugated while witnessing the destruction of civis.

On stage: few props, the physical language that accompanies the narration and the voice as a musical instrument. A show characterized by a non-linear structure, like a stream of consciousness or a dissonant song: a trembling body broke up to tell the lucid madness of the Oedipus lineage. The show investigates one of the most fascinating and contradictory figures in Greek tragedy in order to explore the powerful feminine complexity.

This project aims to explore the themes of ambition, power and the devastation that results from it, through the body, voice and music, conceived as instruments capable of rendering – with physical and sensory intensity – the ancient drama of a mother and a city, that reflects the timeless tensions of our contemporaneity.

According to Michela Lucenti, choreographer, director and performer, dance is like a space where body can take its voice back. The central point of this study is the crisis that hit human relations, the split between individual and the community, but also the one between body and power.