Eumenidi

Eumenides Orestes is safe is a theatrical journey into the heart of the final chapter of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, where an epochal transition unfolds: from the archaic justice of the Erinyes to the institutional justice established by Athena, grounded in the male principle and the centrality of the father.

Developed with the same ensemble of actresses from Supplici, the production emerges as an ongoing laboratory dedicated to classical works, approached through a choral and contemporary form. On stage, seven actresses embody the Erinyes – ancient Furies now rendered harmless, absorbed and domesticated by the new order. Transformed into Eumenides by Athena, they turn back in search of their own past.

While Aeschylus recounts the transformation of the Erinyes into the Eumenides, this work attempts the reverse path: interrogating the myth to ask whether there once existed a time governed by the feminine principle, and what became of it. Within the conflict between the Erinyes and Athena lie the political and social foundations that still shape our world today. Masculine and feminine – archaic forces present within each of us – remain, even now, the driving engines of history.