as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival

After more than four years of work across nine countries in Europe and Asia on Die Like a Country, a foundational text by Dimitris Dimitriadis, Gemma Hansson Carbone continues her journey of research into Dimitriadis’ work, exploring the power of words and voice as tools of evocation and invocation.

Cassandra’s prophecy becomes an announcement: Cassandra is no longer the prophetess of an unheard future, but the voice and body of a radically new present. This reversal lies at the heart of the creation of Il Vangelo di Cassandra (The Gospel according to Cassandra), which unfolds as an immersive experience where poetic language and movement merge to explore universal, human, and political themes of transformation and desire.

Through circular sequences seeking new gravitational planes and ancient gestural formulas, Gloria Dorliguzzo and Gemma Hansson Carbone pursue a physicality that oscillates between disbalances and chiasms, expressing the tension between genesis and destruction, between eros and negation, between past and present time. Cassandra’s movements become “logos,” reflecting Dimitriadis’ semantic revolution that transforms her prophetic, misunderstood, and incomprehensible voice into a divine, creative, and erotic verb.

The scenography, curated by Alessandro Panzavolta and Francesco Tedde, is designed as an open and immersive structure, where Cassandra and the audience become inhabitants of a magical place – the World of Now – where the sun’s orbits write a new alphabet on broken mirrors, where the skeleton of the past becomes a new snakeskin, and where myth and visions of the future converge, celebrating the power of creation and freedom.

Gemma Hansson Carbone is an Italian-Swedish performer and director who has developed her artistic training between Italy, Sweden and the UK. She has met and worked with masters such as Theodoros Terzopoulos, Chiara Guidi, Romeo Castellucci, Michail Marmarinos, Rodrigo Garcia, Tomi Janesic, Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper (Nature Theater of Oklahoma), Julie Stanzak, Dead Center and Elli Papakonstantinou. In 2015 she founded the Naprawski company in Gothenburg for which she directed YOU ARE HERE (so don’t take things so seriously) which won the Italian call Movin’Up. In 2017 she debuted with her second direction, GUL – uno sparo nel buio. Since 2018 she has started collaborating with the Stadsteatern of Gothenburg where she worked alongside the artistic director Pontus Stenshäll as assistant director. In 2019, with Riccardo Festa, she created TU ovvero chi è questa stronza?, a show based on the novel Melampus by Ennio Flaiano and Federico Fellini’s masterpiece “8 e ½”. She collaborates as an actress and dramaturg with the international company ODC Ensemble directed by Greek director Elli Papakonstantinou. In 2022 and 2023 she is resident director for Eleusis 2023 – Capital of Culture.

The Gospel according to Cassandra
annonciation génésique
written by Dimitris Dimitriadis
translated by Gilda Tentorio
by and with Gemma Hansson Carbone
movements and gestures curated by Gloria Dorliguzzo
light and scene: Alessandro Panzavolta
technomage: Francesco Tedde
costume: Johanna Invrea and Damiano Bagli
poet: Michele Montanari
curator: Ilenia Carrone
organization and promotion: Veronica Arietto
a co-production by Naprawski and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa
supported by PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, Olinda – Teatro La Cucina, Antropotopia, Ortographe, 42zone Hub, Nerval Teatro

photo (detail): Panzavolta – Tedde