The story of this Clytemnestra, not so different from the many cases of female criminals in our days, provides a basis for important reflections on the nature of law and justice, on astonishment as discovery and as disappointment, as a sudden revelation of life's harshness.
The complexity and modernity of the character are undeniable: her restlessness, her thirst for independence, her determination, her tragic nature.
Clytemnestra has betrayed, but she has also been betrayed; she killed her husband, who had killed and sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to the gods.
And the scream of pain, the boundless anger, the suffered loneliness, the infinite desire for revenge, are all present in the powerful monologue.
The verdict is already written: no chance of redemption, Clytemnestra is an irredeemable woman. But perhaps this new court could judge her differently.
Marginalized and confined by myth in the infernal circle of the guilty and the outcasts, Clytemnestra in Anna Zago's edition overturns this game, exploiting our need to feel our sins forgiven through the dark mirror of hers, to explain what led her into the cage of shame and contempt.
We return to Clytemnestra to free ourselves from evil; Clytemnestra comes to us and asks, in turn, to be freed. And in this fierce, desperate relationship, there is all the sacred meaning of theater.
Clytemnestra is the prototype of female infamy: cruel, violent, adulterous, and murderous, she is the embodiment of evil and reckless choices.
For the Greeks, she is a kynopis, a dog-faced creature, a true monster. She kills her husband Agamemnon and his lover, the slave Cassandra, with an axe.
But Anna Zago will also tell another story on stage, a long-silenced tale of abuses, waits, and betrayals that the official narrative of the myth has often censored.
With and by Anna Zago, direction by Piergiorgio Piccoli, recorded voice of Anna Farinello, costumes by Elena Ochian, music and effects by Simone Piccoli, and produced by Theama Teatro.
Information and ticket office: www.circoloculturaestampabellunese.it - Piazza Mazzini 18, Belluno - tel. 0437 948911 - info@ccsb.it
For ticket purchase: on the day of the show from 15:00 at the Teatro della Casa della Gioventù - Puos d’Alpago or online from the website www.circoloculturaestampabellunese.it.
