I came into possession of a copy of the Odyssey quite early: when I was in middle school, my father ran the book stand at my neighborhood Festa dell\u2019Unit\u00e0, while my mother reigned supreme over the steaming kitchens. The rain had damaged a prose version from Garzanti, and my father gave it to me as a gift. <\/p>\n
There was no difference, for me, between Tolkien and Homer, it was a great story, or rather a story of stories, in which I had no trouble recognizing the people I loved: my father returning from the concentration camp, my mother waiting, defending herself from the invaders, the mourning, the joy. And I have always wanted to tell it. The Odyssey has been defined: “a story of stories”, a majestic cathedral of stories and storytellers, crossed by references to other stories, myths, in a dense network designed to capture the reader. Precisely because it is admirably constructed for reading, however, it is difficult to tell in the theater, rich as it is. We thought of restoring the flavor of an oral story by proposing a version with multiple voices, which also gives the right weight to the rich female component and to the actual return. Few people remember, in fact, that most of the story takes place in the space of a few days, between Odysseus’ departure from Ogygia and his triumph over the suitors and his reunion with his wife, son and father. The rest of the story, the best-known part, is told by bards, his old companions, Telemachus and Penelope, and Odysseus himself. We will start from the hut of the stories, that hut of the fair Eumaeus, prince and swineherd, where Odysseus’ real reconquest of Ithaca begins. So close to my childhood, the burning nucleus from which my love for the story was born. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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