“Even with your eyes closed, on the right day, you can see Pantelleria. In Santo Stefano Quisquina, where the Sicani mountains - in the province of Agrigento - meet the sky to capture the stars. Here is this: La conquête des étoiles.
It is the epic poem by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti that here, only here, in the riser modeled by Lorenzo Reina - shepherd and sculptor - could find a worthy frame. It is Andromeda's theater. Made by stone placed along a walkway where there are sculptures and statues such as masks and box offices (the beautiful of Icarus, fallen), the theater is an incredible landing place.
One hundred and eight cubes scattered in front of the circle - shaped proscenium - one hundred and eight seats - correspond to the lights of the Galaxy, daughter of Cassiopeia, that mother too proud of her own creature, blessed and full of beauty to the point of boasting and irritating the Nereids, sea nymphs that even today, from afar, they make their anger foam by gnawing at the rocks, the sheep tracks and the fields.
Organize your trip and go there at sunset. You will see Zarathustra. It lives in the exact spot where a circle calls the return to the whole. And always there - and always between stones, air and games of the dark - when you organize yourself to arrive at dawn, you will recognize the profile of Homer. From that fortress, in fact, the great Blind called Calypso, the beautiful nymph who from the island of Ogigia launched his nets to have, once again, Ulysses. And call all of you, with sandals to navigate the flight of stars”For more information: www.teatroandromeda.it
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