A journey through the Greek and Roman theatres facing the Mediterranean: a census documenting the architectures where Western artistic communication was born. From Sicily to Algeria, from France to Greece, every theatre tells one shore of the same story.
From the Seville Expo to today
The project “Memory of the Future: the ancient Greek and Roman theatres” began as a major census exhibited at the 1992 Universal Exposition in Seville, conceived under the cultural direction of Maurizio Scaparro together with Antonio Gala and Renzo Tian, and presented at the Centro Andaluz de Teatro. Since then the census has been a reference for scholars and institutions: the most complete map of the places where theatre was born.
Seaprom carries that legacy forward: combining the ancient world with the most modern technologies of documentation and storytelling, returning to new generations a heritage that belongs to the whole Mediterranean basin. Exhibitions, fine-art photography and scientific research work side by side, in collaboration with archaeologists and research institutes.
Why theatres
The ancient theatre is the first infrastructure of communication: a place built to speak to thousands of people at once. Surveying, photographing and narrating them means preserving the roots of every language we still use today, from the stage to digital media. That is the “Memory of the Future” the project is named after.
