Iliad, The Game of the Gods

Il Quadrivio, formed by Aldorasi, Boni, Niccolini and Prayer, re-write and adaptIliad for the stage, as a glimpse in the mirror of the most ancient myths in western poetry, and the war of all wars.

The Iliad sings of a world in which the ethics of success leave no room for justice and men decide nothing; instead, they are pawns of the gods in a drawn-out war, devoid of victory or defeat.

In this archaic world dominated by force, inescapable Fate and the fickle gods, it is not difficult to hold a mirror up to and recognise our own: our lives dominated by fear, desire for

richness, obsession with the enemy and the destructive forces that plunge us into the irrational, making war possible.

All the seeds of our civilisation’s sunset are there

The Iliad, true to all great poetry, also contains the opposite: responsibility, the freedom to choose and say no to the horror”.

R. Aldorasi, A. Boni, M. Prayer