About the event
Giovanni Onorato has established himself on the Italian theatre scene through a distinctive trajectory in which scenographic writing, body, irony, and poetic tension intertwine, giving rise to hybrid forms suspended between theatre, performance, and musical composition. With ASTERIONE, this research is distilled into a two-person composition for musician and vocal performer, entirely set in darkness. At its core is not so much the myth of the Minotaur, but its condition: Asterion is a liminal figure, secluded, monstrous, and at the same time perfectly aligned with the space he inhabits. The language oscillates between a live musical set and a theatrical monologue, between the immediacy of performance and the emotional line of narration. Rather than a rewriting of the myth, ASTERIONE takes the form of a small ritual of reconnection with otherness and with what our culture of full visibility continues to expel: darkness, night, doubt, and the unresolved part of the human condition. In the background lies a constellation of references—from Borges to Cortázar—that returns to the Minotaur not his monstrosity, but his profound solitude.