Last year it was a happy surprise: describing the Griffo Museum starting from the suggestion of its finds, as long as they can tell a story, starting from solid scientific foundations. A very successful experiment, with many visitors who discovered the collection of the archaeological museum at night. So much so that it will be proposed again, again at the Museum, open extraordinarily at night, and with the same formula: on 28 and 28 June it will be back on stage “The ring from the past”, a project born from the collaboration between the manager of the Griffo, Giuseppe Avenia and the director Marco Savatteri, on the initiative of the director of the Park, Roberto Sciarratta, and with the scientific consultancy of the archaeologist Donatella Mangione: an immersive experience that becomes a new theatrical work, totally inspired by the Museum, linked to the suggestion of the delicate “Teano ring”, among the Griffo’s most beautiful pieces. The story is heartbreaking, it tells of a mother, her young dead daughter, their immense love and unimaginable pain, all in a very delicate gold design.
Visitors – divided into groups of 25 people, from 9pm to 11.30pm at night, every 15 minutes, ordinary museum ticket, 9 euros – will be given torches to illuminate the path through the museum immersed in darkness. By pointing the light towards some showcases, a story will be “activated” – in 12 different chapters – which will start from the individual finds, and will unwind in a single path between past and present, following a time window measured by an hourglass. And the place, through the story of those who live and love it every day. “We need to intercept new audiences, including the children who will be our audiences of tomorrow – explain the director of the Park, Roberto Sciarratta and the head of the Museum, Giuseppe Avenia –, adapting our way of communicating. The Park confirms itself once again as a laboratory of ideas and a hotbed of innovation”.
“I wrote this immersive work in one go – said director Marco Savatteri – with the contribution of all the artists of the company, because I was struck by Teano’s story. Turn the hourglass of time with me to understand how much life the past releases.”
The show is produced by Savatteri Produzioni on commission from the archaeological and landscape park of the Valley of the Temples. Theatrical stories will be intertwined, one for each find, between comic dialogues and dream songs, past and present to reach the story of the Teano ring.
