LA PRIGIONIA DI ALEKOS 07

Team: Andre Benaim Studio di Architettura Scenography, Italy, 2017

The project’s main purpose was to create a modern scenography for the theater performance “Prigionia di Alekos” written by Segio Casesi and directed by Giancarlo Cauteruccio. The whole text is based in the book “Un uomo” of Oriana Fallaci, that shows that an individual person can blow up the certaintiesand overcome the miseries. It is this will of the imagination that Alekos’ Captivity wants to stage, the space of fantasy, of the dream and of the hope of Alexandros Panagulis.

The story therefore takes place during the tragic collapse of democracy in Greece, in the midst of a metaphorical collapse of the scenic space, which explodes invading the audience and the public. The scenography is composed of broken grid, the image of a prison, of a broken and unsafe order.

The entrance of the actors can be made or from holes under the scenography, necessary for some of the characters or by the two entrances in the fond of the scene. The two individual grids create an inclined level and spaces for the actor to stand, sit and perform their best. The first grid is based in the scene floor and the front rows sits while the other is being handed by the ceiling and can be moved in order to create the performance’s last and most impoortant scene, the liberation of Alekos whih rappresents the mental liberation of Alekos due to his strong will and efford.

In the back of the scene hanging panels were placed in order to be used as a canvas for the different projections used by the director in order to transfer the viewer in that dark period of Greece history.

Curriculum Vitae Professional Academic Photography