Fotini Papadodima
When We Had Arrived Down There at the Sea
Α musical performance inspired by Homer’s Odyssey
Five emerging actors/singers and five musicians create a new language of their own, trying out variations of speech, rhythm, melody, and movement. The performers establish a connection between Homer’s Odyssey and the reality of our times by means of testimonies, reflections, open questions, songs, and music about memory, and the themes of loss, displacement and uprooting, nostalgia, anguish, justice, the individual, identity, the foreigner, the familiar and the unfamiliar, all of which pose crucial questions about an ever-changing Europe. Both literally and figuratively, escaping through water and especially by sea has long come to represent nostos, the “return home from Troy by sea.” Themes of return and rescue are inscribed in the element of water. Thus, water is conceived as a field of initiation and trial, an element which brings about a transformation by way of human tears, sweat, and blood. Homecoming. Pray tell, where is “home” for each and every one of us?
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