As evening fell, its inhabitants would go and watch the tragedies written by the great playwrights of the classic period, as well known today as they were in the past. The performances of the Greek classics in Siracusa are thanks above all to Mario Tommaso Gargallo, an aristocrat from the city and its first mayor after the war, who in 1914 founded the INDA, which stands for “National Institute of Ancient Drama”. For many decades, as soon as the weather is fine, the Institute has organized performances of the tragedies in the ancient Greek of the city. This year, the dramas “Philoctetes” by Sophocles, from 409 BC and “Andromache” by Euripides, from around 427 BC, will mark the start of the new season, alternating from 11th May to 19th June. The two performances will accompany fans, tourists and simple occasional theatre-goers to the premiere of Aristophanes’ “The Clouds”, written between 422 and 417 BC, to be performed from 24th to 26th June.
It is a corner of Magna Graecia in the first part of the Siracuse summer.
