Saint-Ecstasy is an atypical project melting both the past and the future of stage arts. Conceived as the result of a Professional Acting and Playwriting Course focusing on Greek tragedy, it has overcome all expectations proving to be a complete work, widely and unanimously appreciated by the audience and critics. Among the most active directors of the International contemporary theatre scene – called in by ERT Foundation to direct the Professional Course during year 2016 – Antonio Latella worked as a pedagogue and director, showing absolute commitment and inspiration. The sixteen actors, selected out of 513 candidates, and the seven playwrights-directors, have worked in Modena for five months between Autumn 2015 and Spring 2016. The creative and educational activities investigated the theme of myth and also asked the seven young playwrights to rewrite it, thus opening the project towards new languages. The result is a dialogue between the myth and new generationst. As suggested by the title, this myth originates from the saga of the Atreides, which deals with such important concepts of family and generations in a very educational way. Fathers, mothers, sons are on stage as characters, interpreted by young actors who actually represent the last generation of those who may be called “sons” but even “orphans”; those who lost their guide, their father, their mother, an institution to support them, the masters from past generations. This is probably the paradox – a tragic one – in a history representing the unfinished pursuit for a family instead of the celebration of a rejoined one. This is where the pedagogical and political impact of a challenge such as Saint-Ecstasy rises from: the elements of quantity and excess, also in terms of perfomance duration, are mainly caused by a void, a lack, an original sterility. In its development, this investigation, focusing also on the use of body on stage, was articulated in several steps, sometimes partially juxtaposed, based on the concept of overcoming limits in order to attain a "state" evoked by the title, until the final moment when the experience is returned to the audience. Saint-Ecstasy is a ritual experience going beyond the usual limits of vision and listening, approaching the educational role of the experience of time in Greek tragedy. This way, the family experience in the Atreides’ saga becomes an opportunity, a tool the audience can exploit to investigate the limits and necessities of its own attention and fruition of theatre performance, all the more so as the play includes different styles and genres. Saint-Ecstasy is a real marathon allowing actors and the audience to share their imagination in a very special way, by compelling them to freeze in the act for a long time, to enter and exit it, thus experiencing a different reality through rhythm and language.