Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
\n31 May 2017 –\u00a018.30<\/p>\n
STORMING UTOPIA – a theatre performance by Oxford University and Pegasus Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n On May 31, 2017<\/strong> at 18.30 Storming Utopia<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0a theatre performance<\/strong> by Oxford University and Pegasus Theatre, will take place at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, to mark the collaboration with Oxford University \/ TORCH (The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities). The performance will be in English. Information: centrobranca@cini.it<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59051,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1470],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-59042","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-events","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nItalo Calvino, in Le citt\u00e0 invisibili (1974), suggested that Venice and Utopia were different versions of the same ideal, unrealizable, city. He had history on his side: the first complete European vernacular translation of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia (1516) appeared in Venice in 1548; and the Utopian commonwealth, described by More, was a Venetian-style republic with an elected head. Thomas More\u2019s ground-breaking island fantasy continues, 500 years after its first publication, to ask us all what brave new world we are to wish for. Members of Oxford University and the East Oxford community are taking part in a unique collaboration supported by three institutions \u2013 Oxford University, Pegasus Theatre (East Oxford), and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice \u2013 to develop a new theatrical show, Storming Utopia<\/em>, which they are performing on San Giorgio Maggiore on May 31, 2017 at 18.30.
\nThe show brings Utopia into dialogue with Shakespeare\u2019s Tempest,\u00a0 Montaigne\u2019s essay \u2018On Cannibals\u2019, and More\u2019s speech about refugees in a play part-authored by Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More, to ask of Venice \u2013 and Oxford \u2013 today: What are the laws and customs of this place? How might these be improved? What are the risks? Who may have access to the drama, and on what terms? These are More\u2019s questions in Utopia, and they have never mattered more than today, as Venice\u2019s fragile ecology poses an increasingly formidable political challenge to its citizens and their elected representations; and as responses to Brexit across Europe focus on the insularity of the UK\u2019s current sense of political identity and invite all European citizens to imagine what a better European society might look like in our shared future.<\/p>\n
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\nFree admission until seats last.<\/p>\n