Iliade. Il Gioco degli Dei

Ten years after its inception, following The Duelists and Don Quixote, Quadrivio, consisting of Roberto Aldorasi, Alessio Boni, Francesco Niccolini, and Marcello Prayer, rewrites and stages the Iliad to reflect on the oldest myths of Western poetry and the war of all wars.

The epic poem of Homer sings of a world dominated by the Gods, the cause of everything but without guilt, who are the only ones capable of making decisions and dragging men into a long and terrible war with no winners or losers. Humans, in fact, do not yet have consciousness and the freedom of choice; they will have to wait for the age of Tragedy to know personal responsibility and to extricate themselves from the absolute authority of the deities.

It is an archaic reality, far from our own, dominated by force, inevitable Fate, and capricious Gods, while our lives are dominated by fear, desire for wealth, obsession with the enemy, power games, and destructive forces that lead to irrationality and war.
However, as is often the case with great poetry, alongside dismay and destruction emerges the opposite: responsibility and the freedom to choose, to oppose, to say no to horror.