Icaro – Il pensiero in equilibrio

“Once upon a time, there was man—an extraordinary creature. Man knew how to create, build, and dare! But sometimes, man’s creations can prove to be dangerous. Once upon a time, there was Icarus: free and swift among the clouds. He could have reached out and touched the Sun itself, and inflamed by that thought, he surged forward and rose. Suddenly, Icarus saw a feather detach. The wax of his wings was melting in the Sun’s heat. And Icarus felt the void. The sky he had conquered was the last to see him. Then he fell into the sea, and the foam covered him.
How many men are like Icarus? How many wings have fallen in the name of progress? Upon this ocean scattered with feathers, man continues to try, to desire to fly above all things, above the Sun. And inventions keep challenging nature, raising labyrinths and then wings to escape… to fly, to fall, and to rise again, with the world teetering, suspended in man’s will, at the mercy of that reckless flight, of wings, of wax.
And the Myth of Icarus remains only a fable—one that men know, but forget. So stubborn in their pursuit, so stretched toward progress, men forget. And yet, I have dreamed of flying… I have dreamed of Icarus, suspended, balanced, kissed by the Sun. And in this dream, man had learned to build without destroying. Can Icarus be free? If only our thoughts could remain in balance…”
THE SHOW
Icarus is the new production by Marco Savatteri, which questions the Myth of Icarus to examine how contemporary man has pushed beyond Nature, beyond everything, leaving behind a planet that is consumed, torn, and exhausted. Icarus is a tragic, ironic, and sarcastic reflection on a self-destructive consumerist society that, flying with wings of Iron, Smoke, and Plastic, has darkened the Sun.
After the crash told in the Myth, Icarus, now a castaway in the seas, drifts through the centuries until he reaches our time, washing ashore on the banks of a Mare Nostrum, a shore overwhelmed by plastic, glass, waste, and the discarded inventions of human progress. A madman, holding a lantern in broad daylight, finds his body. Soon, modern men gather around him—surrounding Icarus, beached and bewildered. Icarus regrets his reckless flight and perhaps now wishes to rediscover Measure. But how can he be understood in a world that has lost all sense of Limit? Perhaps, if Icarus were to fly again, he would no longer know where to go…
The show is a one-act performance featuring a live band, dance, singing, choral moments, dynamic musical scenes—both entertaining and ruthless—multimedia sequences, and acrobatic choreography. A whirlwind of emotions and diverse atmospheres retraces, once again, the arc of human history reflected in Myth, in the signature style of Savatteri Produzioni.