We decided to create a show specially designed so that an international audience could enjoy the thrill and the beauty of the classical theater, experiencing its purest essence, dropping in the vertigo of the Bacchae of Euripides, letting be hypnotized by Dionysus, the God of the Irrational, the God the Mystery, the God of the Theatre.

In Dionysus, many choruses will be represented in ancient greek, in the same language in which the tragedy was born. Therefore, the most universal theatrical language ever. Dionysus is a project with a strong multicultural vocation.

The show will be represented on alternate evenings in the Italian and the Ancient Greek version.

The work on the acting I intend to do requires top quality performers: there is no room for misunderstandings.

I think about a non-stylistic acting, no traces of bourgeois elements: the words of Euripides are rooted in the body, the oldest "actorial instrument". The protagonists do not communicate only through language and its meaning but through a very complex job, aiming to find an ancient vocality and a very strong emotion. The emotion - that's the focal point of this work. From my point of view, the vehicles that make tragedy and catharsis possible even today are the so much insulted emotions. It is very necessary for an interpreter of Greek tragedy, working to achieve a very high emotional temperature, and affecting the voice and the body to reach really distorting states. I hope we will be able to create a drama full of secrets, obliquity and totally anti-rhetorical.

Daniele Salvo