Il Segreto dell'Alba

Performed in March of 1989, a Pantomime in two acts written by Giada Manca di Villahermosa, music by Roberto Caccapaglia, Stage design by Gabriele Amadori.

Commisioned by the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.  This work is based on a character loosely inspired by Christian of the "Pilgrim’s Progress" by John Bunyan and deals with the research within the labyrinth of the contemporary world. The plot reconnects with traditional literature from Homer’s and Joyce’s Ulysse, to Parsifal and Lohengrin tales of the Holy Grail.  Through the mechanisms of initiation the mythological figure of the hero has been adapted to the model of a metropolitan civilization where the protagonist must overcome obstacles and escape situations that assume diverse forms of the disturbed and psychotic society that takes him into the spiral of his own madness. Along the journey between the paradoxes of the contemporary society and that in which man lives, the story unwinds between two different orders apparently opposite: the first daily, social, the second of metaphysical and psychological nature.  Every character is a state of mind, a feeling and every situation is a psychological aspect.  The allegory that is the essence of the story is revealed at the end when the hero comes out of this vortex, and a great lesson is learned.