edifying comedy
A masterpiece of Greek theater of disconcerting relevance.
An edifying comedy to reflect and question ourselves about contemporary society.
Two Athenian citizens, Piseteros and Evelpides, tired of their city, reach a place suspended between earth and sky, without laws or violence, the utopian homeland of birds.
The alliance between men and birds is the meeting between beings of the air and beings of civilization, between pre-polis beings and beings of the polis; for a society that dangerously retreats from being civilization can soon slide into barbarism, swallowed up by a freedom without human features.
Aristophanes’ most beautiful comedy or perhaps even: “the most beautiful comedy of all time” at the service of a staging that wants to try to unmask the hypocrisy of a society that has money and social selfishness as its only Gods.
A journey, an exploration into places so open that they hide in their pockets, meanings and sounds evoked thousands of times but which only on stage become history and dramatic body, impetuously sending us back to our unacceptable present.
