Visit-Montenegro.com: “Galileo Bound” on the Summer Stage within “Teuta” Festival
Branko Brezovec’s play “Galileo Bound” is inspired by Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Life of Galileo: In Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” Zeus is omnipotent and Prometheus is clairvoyant. Tyrant’s fate depends on prisoners. This opposition moves the universe. Predominance is limited by ignorance and the knowledge is limited by predominance. In God’s economy the sum of world sufferings has to remain unchanged.
Podgorica – The play “Galileo Bound” is inspired by Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Life of Galileo” and adapted and directed by Branko Brezovec will be performed tonight within the festival “Teuta” in Kotor on the Summer Stage at 9 pm.
“Laboratorio Nove” from Florence, “Centro Iniziative Teatrali”, “Eurokaz” Festival from Croatia, HNK “Ivan pl. Zajc” from Rijeka (Croatian National Theatre), and the “Teuta” Festival from Montenegro were in charge of production of the play. The actors are: Silvano Panichi, Sergio Aguirre, Manola Nifosi, Lorenzo Berti, Suzana Brezovec. The choir consists of: Elena Ciardella, Sasa Matovina, Darko Matijasevic, Dario Bercic, Ivica Zunic, Natasa Ozura, Ivanica Lovric and Ljubov Kosmerl. The choir is accompanied on piano by Matia Damiani, Romeo Martin Panichi and Pietro Ribatti. The music is composed by Marjan Necak, Stjepan Filipec was in charge of stage design, while costumes were made by Petar Mina, and choreography was done by Barbara Matijevic.
The play “Galileo Bound” was inspired by 400th anniversary of Galileo’s discovery of telescope and it had its first run on 10th May within prestigious Italian Festival Fabbrica Europa 2009. The play is unusual combination of Brecht’s play “The Life of Galileo” and Aeschylus’s tragedy “Prometheus Bound”. The original music for this play is composed by Marjan Necak who is a year-round associate of Brezovec.
Brezovec asks, 400 years after Galileo’s discovery, if we live in Galileo’s world or we are still in the position of the entity who seeks hope in art. The first part of the project “Galileo” is focused on the lack of “delight in knowledge” but also on the lack of motion. Which kind of magnificent stage sluggishness should be created so as to make it brilliant or to keep undivided attention by its absolute stage delay on the verge of viewers’ expectation.
In Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” Zeus is omnipotent and Prometheus is clairvoyant. Tyrant’s fate depends on prisoners. This opposition moves the universe. Predominance is limited by ignorance and the knowledge is limited by predominance. In God’s economy the sum of world sufferings has to remain unchanged.
By D.T.