Crossings. The Appian Way between Stone and Vision

The artistic exhibition Crossings. The Appian Way between Stone and Vision promoted by the Appia Antica Archaeological Park with the support of the Ministry of Culture - General Directorate of Entertainment in collaboration with the Stone Theater Network, takes place in the Park sites.

The main theme of the exhibition is the link between landscape, art, archaeology, natural reality and its projection through the arts. In fact, ten events are planned including theatre, music, dance, but also botany, medical sciences and the art of healing, in two wonderful places: the Nymphaeum of Villa dei Quintili and the Church of San Nicola, in the sites of Villa dei Quintili and Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella.

Crossings. The Appian Way between stone and vision

Thursday 30 May at 7.00 pm – Inauguration and presentation of the exhibition

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

The inauguration includes an artistic performance, with musical, textual and poetic interventions by Marcello Fiorini, Sebastiano Tringali, Carlotta Bruni.

Entrance: Via Appia Antica, 161

Free ticket

De rerum natura and The green that heals 

Saturday 8 June at 6.30pm – Dance and theater performance

Villa dei Quintili/Santa Maria Nova – Nymphaeum

Dance and theater performance inspired by Lucretius' poem and reflections on sacred greenery and profaned greenery. The bodily movement tells of the eternal mutation of the world, the space/time where life is formed and transformed. Even greenery lives and regenerates continuously. To this end, plants develop complex strategies over time. They are a laboratory of chemical substances that man has learned to use for healing purposes. For millennia they have been recognized as sacred; today, however, the sacred is profaned and destroyed.

Ticket €8.00

Elegies and The doctor I would like

Sunday 16 June at 6.30pm – Dance performance and reflections on the well-being of the body

Villa dei Quintili/Santa Maria Nova – Nymphaeum

Dance performance inspired by the poetry of Catullus and Reflections on the well-being of the body. The panic relationship between man and nature is well expressed in the Elegies of Catullus, which open the meeting. In the talk we will talk about the living organism as a set of biological processes that allow survival and growth, but also as an 

alchemical laboratory for the development of feelings, intellectual and spiritual faculties.

Ticket €8.00

Gaius Plinius Secundus

Friday 21 June at 9.00pm – Dance and theater performance

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

The last journey of Pliny the Elder. An imaginary journey, through the hallucinations, hopes, projections and last breaths of Pliny the Elder. Pliny's story, with grotesque or tragicomic tones, is offered as a tribute to mother earth.

Ticket €15.00

Daphne and The dimension of care

Saturday 22 June at 6.30pm – Dance performance and reflections on health, illness, treatment

Villa dei Quintili/Santa Maria Nova – Nymphaeum

Dance performance inspired by the myth of Apollo and Daphne and Reflections on health, illness, treatment. The myth of Apollo and Daphne is the story of a love but also of a paradox: the patron god of the medical arts cannot find a medicine for the wound inflicted on him by Eros; the very god who knows the present, past and future allows his intelligence to be clouded by his passion for Daphne. The second part of the meeting 

offers a reflection on the medical arts, starting from ancient teachings and knowledge.

Ticket €8.00

Ismene's self-defense

Saturday 29 June at 9.00pm – Theatrical show

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

Praise of survival. Ismene is the survivor, the one who finds herself living following the death of her loved ones; of death can include the unsustainability for those who remain. Ismene looks like us. Like her, we try every day to survive and participate in a new dawn.

Ticket €15.00

Storm

Sunday 30 June at 9.00pm – Dance and theater performance

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

Theater and dance performance inspired by Virgil's Aeneid. The Aeneid begins with a storm: not just any storm, but a perfect storm that borders on myth, whose winds, unleashed by a god, intervene to cause the greatest possible devastation. The sea is not life, it is not an encounter or perspective but danger and dismay. Then there is a land, a beach, Europe, which is not a safe and peaceful haven but a hostile one, in which being a migrant is a crime.

Ticket €15.00

Ajax's dream

Saturday 6 July at 9.00pm – Theater show

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

Theater show based on the tragedy by Sophocles and Ajax by Ghiannis Ritsos. The story of the Greek hero through the voice of a woman. Full of pain for not having won Achilles' weapons, blinded by Athena, Ajax massacres flocks, believing he is taking revenge on the Achaeans, but, having come to his senses, he is unable to survive the shame. Greatness and impotence are on stage in this revisitation of the myth, between ancient writing and twentieth-century poetry.

Ticket €15.00

The Menecmi

Sunday 7 July at 9.00pm – Theater show

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

Theater show based on Plautus' I Menecmi. Two twins lose track of each other during childhood and grow up in different places. A twin decides to dedicate his life to searching for his lost brother and does so by encountering misunderstandings and entanglements. The chaos he encounters allows us to see otherness, to deal with it, to recognize the other and present ourselves to him as a different but dialoguing individual.

Ticket €15.00

Ulysses tells Ulysses

Friday 12 July at 9.00pm – Music show

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – Church of San Nicola

Musical show based on Homer's Odyssey. Ulysses arrived at the court of the Phaeacians, where Nausicaa welcomed him. He aims to be taken home by one of the magical ships of that people dear to Poseidon. He narrates, like a veteran, about wars that leave indelible signs of hell and horror. He wants to return home purified. Once in Ithaca, however, his thirst for knowledge does not quench and he leaves Ithaca again. Now Ulysses is nameless, there on the boat he is a man in search of other worlds.

Ticket €15.00