Returning to the Romaeuropa Festival, Giorgina Pi continues with Lemnos a research that intertwines myth, scenography, and a political interrogation of the present. The first chapter of a broader project, the work takes as its starting point the figure of Philoctetes, the hero abandoned on the island of Lemnos because of a wound that makes him unbearable to his community—only for them to return to him years later when they can no longer do without his help. In Pi’s rewriting, Philoctetes is a woman: not a simple gender shift, but an act that reframes myth as a device of exclusion, turning the wound into the point where a body becomes both intolerable and indispensable. Heracles is also a woman, yet stripped of any salvific function, while Odysseus and Neoptolemus remain as embodiments of two forms of masculinity: seasoned strategy and the burden of inheritance. Through original dramaturgy, research materials, journeys, interviews, and a chorus that speaks from the present in ancient Greek, Lemnos does not seek an archaeological rereading of myth, but rather reactivates its force to question what communities expel—and what, nonetheless, they continue to need.
Bluemotion is a collective based in Rome that emerged from the artistic and political experience of Angelo Mai. Performers, directors, musicians, and visual artists come together to create from their own inspirations, confronting their perspectives on the present and on art. Bluemotion’s works are always collective creations, the result of exchange and shared visions within the group.
Bluemotion explores multiple languages: contemporary theatre, music, cinema, literature, photography, and especially their hybrid forms. It creates, lives, and shares within the independent arts space Angelo Mai. The artists of Bluemotion are also activists in the field of human rights and workers’ rights in the performing arts.
Direction, dramaturgy, set design and video: Giorgina Pi
Dramaturg: Massimo Fusillo
With: Gaia Insenga (Philoctetes), Giampiero Judica (Odysseus), Aurora Peres (Deus Ex), Gabriele Portoghese (Neoptolemus), Alexia Sarantopoulou (The Chorus)
Sound environment: Collettivo Angelo Mai
Sound arrangement and supervision: Cristiano De Fabritiis, Valerio Vigliar
Costumes: Sandra Cardini
Lighting: Andrea Gallo
Colorist: Alessio Morglia
Production Bluemotion /Teatro Nazionale di Genova / ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione – Teatro Nazionale/ TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa
in collaboration with Angelo Mai
