Jan Fabre's 'Resurrexit Cassandra' opens Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2020

Jan Fabre's 'Resurrexit Cassandra' opened the international section of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2020, running until February 7, 2021, with a new creation by Greek choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou. The work, co-created with festival artistic director Ruggero Cappuccio, features German performer Stella Höttler. The stage is covered in earth with four turtles at the corners, and five life-sized screens show Höttler in trance-like convulsions. The performance includes repeated belly dancing, which the critic finds narratively unnecessary. The text by Cappuccio is praised for its visceral vocabulary, but Fabre's additions are seen as superfluous, muddying the work's impact. The critic argues that less would have been more, though the audience was captivated.