The island of Ponza evokes the myth of Ulysses and Circe and increases its attractions.
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He takes in hand ponzesi and leads them through music and words, up to the dawn of time, up to its roots, to the rediscovery of the privilege of living in the beauty: Francesco Maria Charles theatre is directly aimed at the heart of Ponza.
The centre in full and, crossing the ancient stratifications of rocks and generations, highlights the profound meaning of life,
In fact, it is a theatrical project, “Ponza to the borders of the myth”, which comes in ‘processing’ trilogy.
This is actually a secret path of sensations and emotions that leads, which is ready to follow him, to discover or re-discovery, the autonomy of the beauty: beauty can survive everything, even finished administrations in tribunals, even in years where Ponza has been neglected and abandoned.
Produced by the company acts and funded Ponza Summer 2013, gives performance refined three trilogy of the island and the simple beauty, both in the music – its treatment by Antonello Aprea – which is the abbreviation for Swaroopa Proietti.
A Renaissance is a precise choice of the administration headed by Piero Vigorelli-mayor who likes to be close to people – and which is score major points of rupture with the past emphasis on culture, on schools, on the arts. Number of goals. Among all, two fundamental for the development of Ponza: Vigorelli aims to create a hotel school to push cultural and tourism to achieve autonomy in the water supply. Two complex objectives but that if Center will remain in history through a real transformation.
“The intention of the trilogy of the transformation-says the artistic director Francesco Maria Charles – is to propose an interpretation of the relationship with the island, through the story of Circe, Odysseus, Telegonus, Nenni and Mussolini, but especially of Luisa, the Cook of Ponza, a symbol of the great mothers and continuity of the building of the hotel retains the typical race of Ponza.” Only an enchanted island and Chameleon, Florida of natural beauty, might be the cradle of man with its primordial size meeting ‘. “
Here the myth of Circe and Odysseus, leads to ‘EEE’ means in Ponza men submitted to transform as if by magic, what’s changing, catharsis. Beautiful and talented staging Marina Sorrenti, explains: “every woman has its share of ancestral magic, but we have for a long time. It is interesting to see how the location of each of out us at one time to come into contact with our intimate, very powerful part. Circe is really a woman, is destroyed by the love which wins even on the magic. All remembers because it transforms men into animals out of their past life memories. But the encounter with Odysseus detonates all: you cannot transform into animal and finds love. “They cohabit a year on the island despite him Circe and her predestined.
And the love between Odysseus and Circe Ponza was born a progenitor son, Telegonus, Italica, intended to kill his father. A story written by Gino Usai, Professor and writer, and is the second episode of the Telegony, which closes the epic cycle of lost poem. Explains the actor, Stefano Onofri, also known as the OV (among other things, by 2008 the official voice of Lupin III): “it is a story of death and rebirth.”Telegonos, ‘born far away’, after the revelation of the mother, starts from Ponza to find his father, Odysseus returns to Ithaca before its birth. Fulfilled the prophecy of Tiresias, bury in the island, wife Penelope and give birth to an Italian collection, which descends the Italian line together. Then Ponza, according to this legend, can be considered the ancestor of Rome ‘. “
Make a leap forward in time, only from Rome the journey of the Duce, filed by the Council on 25 April 1943: twelve days of captivity in Ponza. In the same island, lies, confined, his old friend Pietro Nenni. Key figure will be the hotel buiding keeps Ponza typical Cook (played by Carmen March) that, around his kitchen table, collect the confidences of Nenni and Mussolini, once friends, then separated by ideologies and now together once again on the same island. “And just to Ponza-explains Francesco Maria Charles as the duce – begins a process of transformation that led him to a deep conversion to Christianity. Who knows if it was not this strange influence known of Odysseus’s men ‘. “