Following L’attimo prima, presented during the 2024/25 season, the young Sicilian writer and actor Salvo Drago returns to the LAC with a reimagining of the myth of Hephaestus, a compelling and at times ironic piece.

An intense and visceral monologue, performed entirely in Sicilian: it is not necessary to understand every word, because the meaning emerges from the sound, the rhythm and the pauses.
Hephaestus is the god of fire and iron, but also a fallen god, abandoned to solitude. He works, builds, endures; he speaks of his forge, which lies in the belly of Mount Etna.
From the depths of myth and pain his cry is born: amidst lava, irony and passion, a voice that burns like a volcano. A powerful, poetic and unforgettable confession.