Massimo Wertmüller legge La caduta di Troia - Ad Libitum XI

THE FALL OF TROY
A Mediterranean Tale from the Aeneid - Book II

Wednesday, July 30, at 8:30 PM, enjoy the sunset at a unique location: the seaside terrace of the Atelier Peppino Campanella in Polignano.

On stage for Ad Libitum, actor Massimo Wertmüller will present a reading of the fall of Troy from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, directed by Sergio Maifredi and produced by Teatro Pubblico Ligure.

An ideal prologue for the show MY NAME IS ODYSSEUS on July 31 and August 1.

Enhanced by the percussion of Davide Chiarelli, Virgil's poetry is revealed as a living chronicle, where words like burning city, refugee, exile, boat, sea resonate with utmost relevance, forming a bridge between the ancient myth and today's migration stories. It is Aeneas himself, a guest of Dido in Carthage, who recounts the moment marking the collapse of a civilization: the deception of the wooden horse, Ulysses's cunning, the flames devouring Troy, the despair of a fleeing people. In the nighttime visions, Hector's ghost awakens Aeneas, who gathers his men and attempts to rescue the survivors from the ruins. A universal tale of resistance and hope, of lost cities and new lands to imagine, which is reborn among the stones, the wind, and the sea of today's Mediterranean.

Massimo Wertmüller, actor
Directed by Sergio Maifredi
with the participation of Davide Chiarelli, percussion

a Teatro Pubblico Ligure production
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