Romeo Castellucci – Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Democracy in America
Democracy in America is the latest production by the Italian stage director Romeo Castellucci. The play’s title echoes that of the seminal theoretical treatise by the French diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), which rigorously anatomizes the American civic institutions from a European viewpoint.
Freely inspired by de Tocqueville’s work and period, Romeo Castellucci transports us to the communal life of American puritans and Native Americans. By employing a strategy of words and images, he aims to cast light on issues such as the language of communication, religion, and the notion of community. In the emerging New World, Biblical equalitarianism has now replaced the experience of Tragedy, which constitutes the highest form of personal self-awareness and political identity, according to Castellucci.
Democracy in America invites us to discover, following a retrograde trajectory, the seeds of the modern democratic regime, long before it grew and spread throughout the western world.
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Duration 95’
Onassis Cultural Centre
- 30/06 until 02/07/2017 at 21:00
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