Description

Stryx thematically referred to Hell

Hell

In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...

, devil

Devil

The Devil is believed in many religions and cultures to be a powerful, supernatural entity that is the personification of evil and the enemy of God and humankind. The nature of the role varies greatly...

s and underworld

Underworld

The Underworld is a region which is thought to be under the surface of the earth in some religions and in mythologies. It could be a place where the souls of the recently departed go, and in some traditions it is identified with Hell or the realm of death...

. The scenography featured elements resembling Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

-like gloomy castles and caves.

The show featured acting as well as musical performances from such artists as Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

, Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

 or Patty Pravo

Patty Pravo

Patty Pravo is an Italian pop singer whose career has spanned more than four decades. Her first single "Ragazzo triste", released in 1966, was the first pop song aired on Vatican Radio...

. The musical part was divided into a number of smaller parts, with each part featuring a performance from one specific artist, for example Amanda Lear in Sexy Stryx or Grace Jones in Rumstryx. The show was produced in the disco music era, therefore this genre dominates the musical background of Stryx.

The show caused many controversies in more conservative societies, mainly because of its devil

Devil

The Devil is believed in many religions and cultures to be a powerful, supernatural entity that is the personification of evil and the enemy of God and humankind. The nature of the role varies greatly...

ish theme and referring to underworld

Underworld

The Underworld is a region which is thought to be under the surface of the earth in some religions and in mythologies. It could be a place where the souls of the recently departed go, and in some traditions it is identified with Hell or the realm of death...

 as well as exposing nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...

. Due to numerous protests the show was taken off the broadcast and the production of following episodes was cancelled. Apart from six known episodes there exists also the seventh one, which has never been officially aired on television.

Cast

• Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
  
   - Sexy Stryx
• Anna Oxa
  Anna Oxa
  Anna Oxa is an Italian singer of Albanian descent, well-known through her numerous appearances in the televised Italian song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1978, at the age of sixteen, she took second place with the song "Un'emozione da poco" at the Sanremo Festival...
  
   - Stereo Stryx
• Asha Puthly - Indian Stryx
• Corrado Lojacono
• Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
  
   - Stryx do Brasil
• Gianni Cajfa
• Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...
  
   - Rumstryx
• Hal Yamanduchi
• Mia Martini - Gipsy Stryx
• Luis Agudo
• Ombretta Colli
• Patty Pravo
  Patty Pravo
  Patty Pravo is an Italian pop singer whose career has spanned more than four decades. Her first single "Ragazzo triste", released in 1966, was the first pop song aired on Vatican Radio...
  
   - Subliminal Stryx
• Tony Renis
• Walter Valdi
  Walter Valdi
  Walter Valdi was an Italian singer, songwriter, author and actor of several songs and theatrical pieces in Milanese Dialect.He was born in Cavenago Brianza and died in Milan....
  
  

Production

• Enzo Trapani - director
• Ennio di Majo - script
• Gianna Sgarbossa - costumes
• Tony de Vita - music
• Renato Greco - choreography
• Enzo Torroni - light