In occasione del Festival Prague Crossroads, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura è lieto di segnalare lo spettacolo di Romeo Castellucci, “Democracy in America”, ispirato all’omonima opera del filosofo Alexis de Tocqueville.
In italiano con sottotitoli in ceco ed inglese.
“This performance is not political. This performance is not so much a reflection on politics, as – if anything – on its end. In 1835, for the first time, a European turns his eyes away from Athens. Alexis de Tocqueville witnesses the birth of the United States of America at the time when a new Democracy was being created from the seeds of the principles of Puritanism and true equality among individuals. This implies the decline of Tragedy, understood politically as an awareness and comprehension of being. The great artificial laboratory of the negligence of being – Tragedy – has thus been dismissed, for ever. The vital and antibiotic experiment inherent in Athenian democracy has been relegated to the archive, along with the attempt – for the brief duration of a performance at the Theatre of Dionysus – to situate oneself beyond the limits of democracy itself, so as to listen, time and time again, to the dysfunction of existence, the lament of the expiatory victim, whom no politics is able – even today – to save. No more sacrifice, but still no politics. No more Gods, but still no city of man. The Scapegoat has been driven out, the knife has fallen out of our hands, and the sky is empty, new, blue and cold. All that remains is the empty ceremony that celebrates the grandeur of this loss”
Romeo Castellucci:
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA [Socìetas, Itálie] 5.10.2017 20:00 Nová scéna
6.10.2017 18:00 Nová scéna
Castellucciho inscenace poprvé v Česku! Jeden z nejvýznam-
nějších evropských režisérů Romeo Castellucci zde uvede svůj nejnovější opus. „Není to inscenace o politice. Ani ji ne-
reflektuje. A pokud ano – tak její konec,“ říká o ní sám režisér. Inspirací mu byl mýtus o antické demokracii, ale také lidové řecké a albánské tance a rovněž specifické plynutí času a role jazyka v dnešním světě. Výsledkem je magický tvar, který se pohybuje žánrově spíš na hranici pohybového a hudebního divadla, je stejně tajemný a nezachytitelný jako rituál, obřad oslavující konec našeho světa.