User:Thnidu/Conversazione su Tiresia (film)

Conversazione su Tiresia is a theatrical performance written and performed by Andrea Camilleri and directed by Roberto Andò, which was staged only one time: at the Greek Theater of Syracuse on 11 June 2018.

The show, recorded and produced by Carlo Degli Esposti's company Palomar, with high definition shooting and film direction by Stefano Vicario, was broadcast in cinemas on 5th, 6th, 7th and 22nd November 2018 and aired also on television on RAI 1 on March 5, 2019 in prime time with the television direction of Roberto Andò and Stefano Vicario.

Plot
The show deals with the story of Tiresias, a blind seer of Greek mythology, which is intertwined with the personal history of the writer, who was also blinded by illness. During the conversation, Andrea Camilleri, as Tiresias, converses with Homer, Horace, Seneca, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, Guillaume Apollinaire, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Ezra Pound, Cesare Pavese and Primo Levi, as well as Woody Allen, who had played Tiresias in the film Mighty Aphrodite; Pier Paolo Pasolini, who had written him as a character in the screenplay of the film Edipo re (Oedipus Rex); and the band Genesis, whose song The Cinema Show,  with which the show opens, features Tiresias.