Illustration

German Premiere – Isole Comprese Teatro / Florence / Italy

Date: Thursday, May 4th 2006, 8 pm
Place: Theater im Pumpenhaus
Duration: approx. 75 minutes
Language: Italian with German surtitles
Web: www.isolecompreseteatro.it

A boy with down-syndrome talks about himself. It is his soul that speaks. The gestures and facial expressions are those of an ill body. His terrible, obsessive and despairing mother and a doctor in conflict with the requirements and instruments of her work constantly circle him. A shapeless muscle mass hangs on a butcher’s hook onstage above them. A metaphor for the directorial grip of art, the result of cutting the dreamlike and nightmarish sequences radically over and over again, to cut them up, to chop them like butcher’s meat. The setting is an ambulance. A theatre-ambulance between antiseptically gleaming white and pulsating bleeding red. An ideal utopia for the Isole Comprese Teatro, that was recently honoured in Italy “because of the ability to translate unease into a visionary stage language” and that explores the painful and suspenseful relationship between body and soul of contemporary man. An undertaking of longing, torn between the acceptance of anomalies, the confusing management of the own body and the wish for reconstruction, for the entity of body and soul. The artistic directors Alessandro Fantechi and Elena Turchi let four persons enter this pathological theatre experiment, who wander between innocence and guilt, illness and perversion, dream and memory. The duo has developed a wealth of unusual projects in the series “Theatres of the Soul” since 1998.

Actors: Andrea Pagnes, Giovanni Pandolfini, Laura Bucciarelli, Luisa Salvestroni Direction/Concept: Alessandro Fantechi, Elena Turchi Text: Andrea Pagnes, Laura Bucciarelli Lightdesign: Marco Falai Production: Isole Comprese Teatro, Firenze, Italy 2005



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