The Teatro di Roma returns to the stage in Ostia Antica, where the second edition of the Teatro Ostia Antica Festival: The Sense of the Past will take place from June 25th to July 18th. This year, more than ever, the festival features an internationally renowned program, intertwining the power of classical myth with contemporary languages, harmonizing them and positioning itself as the preferred tool for interpreting the complexities and challenges of our time.
The heart of the second edition, therefore, consolidates a cultural formula that relaunches a close dialogue between classicism and modernity, through a program that continues along the lines of tragic exploration, understood as a living tool for exploring all the diverse facets of humanity. With an extraordinary turnout last year - which attracted a total of 11,000 attendees - the Festival confirms its position as an artistic force that drives cultural development and brings together creative energies, enhancing the metropolitan area within the broader national context.
From Greek tragedy to avant-garde dance, the Festival stands out for its blend of tradition and contemporary innovation, featuring works by four national and international masters: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Asterios Peltekis, Angelin Preljocaj, and Filippo Dini.
The Festival opens by celebrating the Dionysian and ritual roots of theater with Theodoros Terzopoulos's The Bacchae (June 25 and 26), a monumental production that strips Euripidean tragedy of all historicism, transforming it into a metaphysical experience and an urgent reflection on the archetype of the "foreigner." From this archaic rigor, we arrive at the civic and disruptive force of Asterios Peltekis's Lysistrata (July 4 and 5), a national premiere, where Aristophanic comedy is projected into the mirror of modern conflicts, transforming the historic "sex strike" into an act of political disobedience against the entropy of war. The journey then ascends towards the spiritual reflections and powerful aesthetics of Angelin Preljocaj with Requiem(s) (10 and 11 July), an architecture of bodies and beauty that explores the boundary between human limitations and the eternity of art, transforming the wound of mourning into a celebration of life.
The Festival finally reaches the psychological investigation into the ambiguity of love and sacrifice in Filippo Dini's Alcestis (July 17 and 18), a visionary reinterpretation that delves into the shadowy areas of the myth to probe its deepest human implications and the disturbing mystery of the threshold between life and death.
What emerges is a constellation composed of four pieces that lead back to the universal myth reinterpreted through contemporary aspects, becoming elements of a single creative geography that redefines the Roman Theatre of Ostia as a global stage and a shared agorà, where millennia-old historical identity meets the most advanced artistic vision of our time.
Photo: official poster of the event
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