Derided by many and considered a genius by others, Bene is one of Italy’s most original writer-actor-directors whose work has been disturbing and dividing audiences for decades. An iconoclastic approach to theatre and a rocky private life has keep Bene in both broadsheets and tabloids. In ‘In-vulnerabilità d’Achille’ (In-vulnerability of Achilles), Bene mingles texts from Homer to Kleist, and produces what has been eagerly dubbed ‘technological sublimation’. In Italian.
