ODISSEO Viaggio nel teatro

After presenting “Oedipus.Tragedy of senses for one spectator”, Teatro del Lemming is bringing in Berlin its “Odysseus. Travel in Theatre”.

In this performance the direct relation between actors and spectators is taken to a larger audience. Here we have 33 spectators that taken together are a single identity, the Odysseus’ one, which, as the group of spectators, is multiform. Spectators become protagonists of a story that reminds the unexhausted Odysseus’s travel towards Itaca, but that’s also the flash of the unexpected, the encounter with Eros, with the monstrosity, the memory, the nostalgia, the violence, the death.   

Odysseus' body is wounded, but his wound has became a  scar.

Odysseus' journey is circular and implies a departure and an homecoming: from Ithaca to Ithaca.

In Lemming’s performance the journey doesn’t develop in a linear way, but synchronically: everything happens at the same time. Like in a dream. The Sea, as Theatre, hasn't got a “centre”; and the Sea, as Theatre, leaves no trace. But Theatre, as Odysseus' sea, is the only place where we can meet our ghosts and where we can conquer our Ithaca: the home where we can always come back different but still the same.

The show is for thirty-three spectators at time (3 repeats a day).

Duration of each performance: 45 minutes