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_PENELOPE AND THE HELL OF NO RETURN _
Penelope is an erotic and desperate poem, exposing with lucid madness and lofty language the pains of a newfound but unlivable amor. A poignant cry of erotic ecstasy, which turns into agony.
Penelope illustrates the most heinous consequences of love by retracing the Odyssey _from the point of view of Penelope, who by now deceased recounts the return of Odysseus as it has never been told. It is the story of a love obsession, an obsession that becomes a verb, tearing every single word from the welter of inarticulate moans in which this woman in love drowns and struggles. Her eyes, too clouded with tears, do not see the world and the dramas that convulse it, but witness a desolate endgame in a no-man´s land where Penelope wanders fearful, sad and lonely.
Telling the myth of Penelope on stage today means being aware of all this, it means challenging, on the planks of the stage, the deepest essence of one's being, it means issuing a challenge to the spectators: a challenge to crossing the boundary of the mirror, a challenge to stripping off the mask to offer oneself naked in the presence of Truth.
Matthew Tarasco
from **Omero-Ovid-Atwood.
dramaturgy and direction **Matteo Tarasco **.
with Teresa Timpano
original music by Mario Incudine
costumes and sets Francesca Gambino and **Laura Laganà **
In collaboration with **Academia Delle Belle Arti di Reggio Calabria**.
co-production Scena Nuda - Contemporary Myths Festival and** Academy of Fine Arts of Reggio Calabria**
