ABSTRACT
Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes is rarely performed, particularly in comparison with Sophocles' Antigone, with which is shares a significant overlap of mythological plot and several important themes. Mario Martone's Teatro di Guerra holds an important position within Italian cinema. It might be argued that his work influenced the more recent Neapolitan film Gomorra, directed by Matteo Garrone in 2008, based on the book by Roberto Saviano, which details the horrors of living in Camorra-run Naples. Italian author Fabrizia Ramondino, with whom Martone had co-authored the script for his 1992 film Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, and who had written in depth about Sarajevo, was to be another collaborator. The location of the theatre where rehearsals are taking place is in the Spanish Quarter of Naples, an area known for high unemployment, poverty, a particularly heavy Neapolitan dialect, traffic in heroin, and the strong influence of the Camorra, the large organized crime network based in Naples.
