LA MORTE DELLA PIZIA di Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Exclusive for AMA Calabria The Death of the Pythia which won the Franco Enriquez 2024 City of Sirolo Award for Best Direction.

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

with 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 photos by Pino Le Pera
Assistant Director Giorgia Macrino
Organization by Rossella Compatangelo

Production by Progetto Goldstein

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

THEATRICAL SEASON 2024/25
GRANDINETTI COMMUNAL THEATER OF CATANZARO
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stlt2425/