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CATCH ME
The house inside Ennio
“Every man is born as many men and dies as one”
M. Heidegger
Five years ago, during the research for a show, we came across a trunk full of old photos and junk; along with these objects, 15 tapes on which one voice, always the same, recorded several dreams, 106 in all. Probing through all these materials, like an archive fund not yet catalogued, we understood, discovered or perhaps decided that all those objects belonged to a single human being, whose name appears in most documents and on the back of many photographs: Ennio.
Listening to the audiotapes and studying the relics contained in the trunk, the idea of building a show, a theatrical documentary in which we can give life and body to the dreams recorded, using objects as clues, finds or tests in order to recompose the identity contours of this silhouette of character, the more hypnotic the more fragmentary and elusive.
The staging project gradually took the structure of a thriller based on the removal and on the ego, reverberating on the scene an ambiguous and faint light. From the darkness in which we grope, representations of dreams and actors in search of Ennio emerge, illuminated almost exclusively by torches and lamps. The traces he left us, while testifying to the life, fears, anxieties and desires of an individual, allude and refer to the absolute of human experience. In an attempt to reconstruct Ennio, in fact, each interpreter ends up proposing a version that resembles him or her, as a reflection in which to recognize themselfs or fall in love.
The text, composed through stage writing and with the collaboration of a dramaturg, is divided into four acts, which mark the highlights of the life of the absent protagonist. The objects contained in the trunk and the recorded dreams not merged in the show are made available to the spectators, in the interactive exhibition created in the foyer of the theater.
Credits Directed by Roberto Andolfi Dramaturg Rosalinda Conti Assistant director Alessia Giglio With Maria Vittoria Argenti, Dario Carbone, Annarita Colucci, Valeria D'Angelo, Anton De Guglielmo Costume Designer Annarita Colucci Scene Illoco Teatro Lighting consultancy Emilio Barone Organization and communication Cecilia Carponi Psychoanalytic consultancy Omar Imili Guicci A performance by Illoco Teatro Coproduction: Teatro nel Bicchiere Festival, Maremma With the support of Spin Time Labs
Catch Me è un inseguimento.
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