Pompeii Theatrum Mundi 2024: A Fusion of Ancient Drama and Modern Interpretation

The seventh edition of "Pompeii Theatrum Mundi 2024" will kick off on June 13th at the Teatro Grande of the Archaeological Park until July 13th, featuring four performances by important directors and artists from the national and international scene, each replicated for three nights, from Thursday to Saturday always at 9 pm. "The Erased Odyssey" by Emilio Isgrò from June 13th to 15th directed by Giorgio Sangati on an "in situ" scenic installation and Euripides' Phaedra directed by Paul Curran from July 11th to 13th are respectively the opening and closing shows. A new edition of the summer festival, realized by the Teatro di Napoli-Teatro Nazionale directed by Roberto Andò and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii directed by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, will take the stage. To complete the event's program, presented at the Mic, which supports the festival together with the City of Naples, the Campania Region, the Metropolitan City of Naples, with Minister Sangiuliano, "De Rerum Natura" by Fabio Pisano directed by Davide Iodice from June 27th to 29th and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex directed by Andrea De Rosa and starring Marco Foschi from July 4th to 6th. "This is a festival dedicated to the classics - explains Andò - which we know to be everything that becomes contemporary as soon as we look at it. It is what allows us to say who we are and where we are. Then, returning to inhabit the perfect stones that are the ancient theaters is also a way to bring back the authority of the human, which is the focal point of tragedy". "Pompeii is not just a place of archaeological representation but is a scenario of life, the place where we relive the daily life of Roman Pompeii and today we revitalize it with an offer of great quality", says the Mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, speaking at the press conference presenting the theatrical review. According to Manfredi, this initiative represents somewhat "the flagship of the work carried out by the Stabile Theater of Naples which is a great cultural institution, working with great quality and commitment and guaranteeing a theatrical offer, but also a production, of the highest level". The Mayor of Naples spoke of "great institutional harmony that supports this festival" and of a "synergy with Pompeii that is something more". And he adds: "presenting both classic works and their contemporary reinterpretations shows that classical theater gives us a complex reading of the world we live in". Manfredi said that "from the ancient we can read the future of our society" then emphasizing the indissoluble link that "exists between Naples and Pompeii, two inseparable realities".