Will replicate from June 7 to 19 on Prince's Street in Catania AN ESCAPE TO EGYPT. VIRTUAL ROUTE TO EXILE. 

An immersive experience somewhere between virtual reality and live performance on texts by Lina Prosa, Tino Caspanello, Turi Zinna. Dramaturgical design, editing and direction Turi Zinna; actors in stereoscopic 360° video. Barbara Giordano, Marcello Montalto, Chiaraluce Fiorito, Giovanni Arezzo, Valentina Ferrante; actors on stage Valentina Ferrante, Turi Zinna; original music and sound engineering Giancarlo Trimarchi; assistant director Federico Magnano San Lio; costumes Vincenzo La Mendola; D.O.P. Antonio Parrinello; compositing collaborator Rocco Minore; executive post production Retablo Dreamaturgy Zone; by Retablo Dreamaturgy Zone.

A Mary who self-fecundates in herself a revolutionary thought; who announces her Immaculate Conception to an angel who has become an atheist. A fearful and conformist Joseph, incapable of understanding and ready to divorce. A temple determined to make carnage of eyes unwilling to be programmed. A Mary who will give birth to a gaze destined to liberate the world. A salvation, not yet saved, to be saved.

Three workers of the word, Lina Prosa, Tino Caspanello and Turi Zinna, invade the field of virtual reality to devise a multidimensional immersive experience that blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the political, the simulated and the concrete, the here and there, the now and the then. An experience that blurs the boundaries between virtual reality itself and performance.

With the idea of a total theater in mind, Turi Zinna amalgamates the world of dramaturgy, 360-degree immersive three-dimensional cinema, digital visual arts, electronic music and theatrical technique, thanks to a solid cast of excellent actors - Barbara Giordano as Mary, Marcello Montalto as Joseph, Chiaraluce Fiorito and Giovanni Arezzo as the Black Archangel and the White Archangel, respectively, and Valentina Ferrante as Elizabeth -, to the aforementioned authors, to superlative masters of the various compartments - Giancarlo Trimarchi for composition and sound engineering, Antonio Parrinello for photography direction.

An Escape to Egypt is a theater project developed entirely for virtual reality viewers. The audience, wearing the visor, will perceive that they are inside and part of the same environment in which the characters act. Through a combination of cutting-edge technology, immersive soundscapes, the play explores the intricate connection between memory, senses, world perception, manipulation and consciousness. As well as an inherently feminine worldview irreconcilable with any autocratic-patriarchal albeit ultramodern and technological system.

by Lina Prosa, Tino Caspanello, Turi Zinna
dramaturgical project, editing and direction Turi Zinna
actors in stereocopic 360° video Barbara Giordano, Marcello Montalto, Chiaraluce Fiorito, Giovanni Arezzo, Valentina Ferrante
actors on stage Valentina Ferrante, Turi Zinna
and with the participation of little Vittoria Bonanno, Chiara Ciancio, Annalisa Cocuzza, Marina Demetra Doria, Arianna Garaffa, Mattia Garaffa, Elena La Mela, Karola La Mela, Viola Lupoi, Chiara Nicotra, Beatrice Orofino, Giordana Raciti, Giulia Scuderi
original music and sound engineering Giancarlo Trimarchi
assistant director Federico Magnano San Lio
lights Gaetano La Mela
scenic staging Elio Di Franco
costumes Vincenzo La Mendola
D.O.P. Antonio Parrinello
collaborator compositing Rocco Minor
direction of child actors Maria Grazia Pitronaci
executive post production Retablo Dreamaturgy Zone
Retablo Dreamaturgy Zone production