OMA's interventions will be dramatically exploited and adapted at strategic moments within this summer's cycle of plays staged by the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico. The scenography features three temporary architectural devices that reinterpret the spaces of the theatre, which dates from the 5th century BCE.
The first intervention, the Ring, is a suspended walkway that completes the semi-circle of the terraced seating, encompassing the stage and the backstage, and giving actors an alternative way of entering the scene.
The Raft, a circular stage for the actors and dancers, reimagines the orchestra space as a modern thymele, the altar that in ancient times was dedicated to Dionysian rites.
