LA MORTE DELLA PIZIA di Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Exclusive for AMA Calabria, The Death of the Pythia has won the Franco Enriquez 2024 City of Sirolo award for best direction.

THE DEATH OF THE PYTHIA
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
translated by Renata Colorni, published by Adelphi
theatrical adaptation by Patrizia La Fonte and Irene Lösch
in agreement with Arcadia & Ricono Ltd courtesy of Diogenes Verlag

starring Patrizia La Fonte and Maurizio Palladino

Directed by Giuseppe Marini
Set design by Alessandro Chiti
Costumes by Helga H. Williams
Original music by Paolo Coletta
Lighting design by Alessandro Greco
Stage photography by Pino Le Pera
Assistant director Giorgia Macrino
Production by Progetto Goldstein

Synopsis
The many truths of Delphi and the fake news surrounding the story of Oedipus, manipulated by oracles and seers, have grotesque and mocking colors in Durrenmatt's tale, published in 1976 and released in Italy in 1988, here for the first time in theatrical form. In the attempt to understand and comprehend reality, the irreconcilable conflict between those who see the madness of chance and those who try to find a coherent sense in the tangle of events that overwhelm us becomes increasingly clear. Pannychis Eleven, the Pythia priestess at the end of her days, assisted by the priest Merops Twenty-Seven, a broker and cashier, is called by the powerful Tiresias to review the events and prophecies - of which both have in different ways been architects - in the embarrassing presence of the victims of their responses. Oedipus, Jocasta, the Sphinx, appear on the stage as revealing visions of the fragility of our means of knowledge.
Dürrenmatt's text refers to the cynicism of manipulated information and the chaos of news that disorient us even more today than in his time. Thus abandoned to drift, we are forced to choose our own truth. The only consolation and liberation from panic: moments of cathartic, bitterly ironic laughter.

THEATRICAL SEASON 2024/25
GRANDINETTI MUNICIPAL THEATER OF LAMEZIA TERME
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stlt2425/