Gilgamesh

GILGAMESH is a project conceived by Simone Giustinelli and realized with the students of the BA and MA Theatre Arts courses at Middlesex University. The company is made by people coming from all over the world: Brazil, England, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Scotland, Slovakia, Poland, Zimbabwe. GILGAMESH debuted in Rome in June 2018 for the youth festival “Dominio Pubblico”, at the National Theatre of Rome, Teatro India. This was then followed by a 1 week run at Ravensfield Theatre, London in October 2018. Gilgamesh is the first literary work in human history and remains, to date, one of the most incredible ever made. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC, it anticipates the drafting of the Iliad of about 1000 years. Given to have disappeared for almost 2 millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the poem was engraved were found in 1850 among the ruins of ancient Nineveh, and the text was not completely deciphered and translated until the end of the century. The epic poem is the story of the first hero of literature, the king of the city of Uruk (current Iraq), and of his journey to discover himself. Gilgamesh gives voice to pain and fear of death, portrays love and vulnerability, and the desperate combat of human beings in the recognition of their own finiteness. Directors - Munotida Chinyanga, Simone Giustinelli Lighting Designers - Daniel Brennan, Geraldo Monteiro Set Designer- Justyna Zukovska Costume Consultants - Wiktor Nowicki, Kinga Pietraszek Sound and AV Designer - Magdalena Slabonova Performers (Rome) - Jessica Victoria Bourne, Joshua Jaz Impey, Kenichiro Nakajima, Barbara Ramos Teixeira, Adeeb Abdul Razak, Justyna Zukovska Performers (London) - Jessica Victoria Bourne, Joshua Jaz Impey, Kenichiro Nakajima, Adeeb Abdul Razak, Tânia Miranda de Carvalho Assistant Director -Laura Singleton Stage Manager - Sophie White Production Manager - Sonia Valente