Clitemnestra, Medea, Circe
Luciano Violante—former magistrate, politician, and member of parliament—is a passionate scholar of classical myth and its profound message for the modern world. The fruit of his intense reflection is a trilogy dedicated to three emblematic female figures of mythology: Clytemnestra, Medea, and Circe. Each of these women embodies universal and tragic aspects of the human experience, conveying through myth questions that still resonate in our contemporary era.
Clytemnestra, who asserts a denied justice, symbolizes the conflict between vengeance and justice; Medea, who kills her own children to spare them from slavery, represents a painful affirmation of her dignity as a woman; finally, Circe, priestess of sorrow, becomes the reflection of the unresolved inner depths of others, evoking the complexity of female power and human suffering. These three stories find stage expression in the masterful performance of Viola Graziosi, who brings the protagonists to life over three separate evenings with extraordinary intensity, under the direction of Giuseppe Dipasquale. Thus, Violante’s trilogy becomes not only a tribute to myth but also a reflection on the human condition, seen through the eyes of three extraordinary women.
The Progetto Donne! (Women! Project) starts from myth to reach a present shaped by social media and new forms of communication. Indeed, Viola Graziosi—highly active on all platforms—is celebrating a year on TikTok, where she has developed, together with her social media managers, an ambitious project: bringing theater to the world’s biggest stage by creating short “pills” about the characters, classical and otherwise, that she has portrayed, aiming to captivate the younger audience by speaking their language. Luciano Violante’s Medea is already on the platform.
Special thanks to Graziano Piazza for his friendly video appearance in Circe.