Prometheus

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The tragedy of Aeschylus captures the moment of the conflict between Zeus and Prometheus. The son of the titan protected men, his creation, from the capricious god that men no longer liked: he was jealous because they looked too much like the gods. And how does Prometheus protect them? By giving them fire, that is, technology, science. When Zeus discovers that his friend stole his fire to give it to men he feels betrayed and punishes Prometheus in the worst way: he sends him to the ends of the world, which for the Greeks was the Caucasus, and chained him to a cliff where every morning an eagle will come to devour his liver that grows back every night.

Prometheus has always been the symbol of rebellion, a character loved by young people because, like them, he cannot contain his feelings and the strength of the fences established by conventions, a hero who makes the challenge to the authority constituted his vital condition. But it is also the archetype of technological and scientific knowledge, freed from the chains of superstition and ignorance. So the young actors graduated from the School of the Teatro Stabile in Turin, the group PEM Potential Evocative Multimedia - at their national debut on the Scamozzian scene - face this project with the words of Aeschylus, words that cross their bodies without ever giving up the physical action, to get to the dance and sound that becomes song. Choir singing, as in the tradition of classical tragedies, in which the characters emerge from the choir without ever separating from it.