LANGUAGE: Italian
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes
TICKETS: €13 full price, €10 reduced price
“The point is to transform pain into beauty. Will we ever succeed?”
What remains of a family when bodies dissolve and memories crumble?
Il Grande Vuoto is the last season of love between a mother, her children and a father who is no longer there. A mother, a former actress, slowly slips away, swallowed up by a neurodegenerative disease that leaves her with only one intact fragment: a monologue from King Lear. It is from here that an impossible dialogue opens between Shakespearean tragedy and the most intimate everyday life, where pain transforms, disguises itself and plays. Their is no one in the house but it is filled with objects, memories and dust. As the memory fades, the eyes of the cameras continue to observe: a son and a daughter can still see their mother, watch her while she plays solitaire, stare at the turned-off television, talk to people who do not exist, not take a bidet, cry, sit still on the edge of the bed, spend the night taking photographs, pieces of paper and dirty underwear out of drawers, only to put them back in again.
IN A NUTSHELL
Theatre and video intertwine to tell the story of a family and its disappearance. A mother, a former actress, struck by a neurodegenerative disease, retains only the memory of her warhorse: a monologue from King Lear. Around her, the house empties of presence but fills with objects and memories.
Director Fabiana Iacozzilli
Dramaturgy Linda Dalisi, Fabiana Iacozzilli
Dramaturge Linda Dalisi
Performers Ermanno De Biagi, Francesca Farcomeni, Piero Lanzellotti, Giusi Merli and with Mona Abokhatwa for the first time on stage
Design and creation of scenes Paola Villani
Lights Raffaella Vitiello
Original music Tommy Grieco
Sound Hubert Westkemper
Costumes Anna Coluccia
Video Lorenzo Letizia
Assistant director Francesco Meloni
Set design Mauro Rea, Paolo Iammarone, Vincenzo Fiorillo
Sound engineer Jacopo Ruben Dell’Abate, Akira Callea Scalise
Technical direction Francesca Zerilli
Assistants Virginia Cimmino, Francesco Savino, Veronica Bassani, Enrico Vita
Artistic collaboration Marta Meneghetti, Cesare Santiago Del Beato
Scene photos Laila Pozzo
Press office Antonella Mucciaccio
Production Cranpi, La Fabbrica dell’Attore, La Corte Ospitale, Romaeuropa Festival
With the contribution of MiC – Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region
With the support of Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri, Carrozzerie n.o.t, Fivizzano 27, Residenza della Bassa Sabina, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
Thanks to Luisa Pacilio, Martina Bonati, Martina Tirone, Clara Greco, Benjamin Miller, Mirko Lorusso, Irene Paloma Jona, Marco Ferrara, Beth McCreton, Angela Di Domenico, the spectators of the Teatro Herberia Rubiera; Fondazione Casa Lyda Borelli for artists and entertainment professionals of Bologna, Casa Residenza Anziani (CRA) of Rubiera; the Senior Citizens’ Center of the Municipality of Magliano Sabina, Cecilia Alei, Agnesi Graziella
A director and author among the most recognizable voices on the contemporary scene, Fabiana Iacozzilli intertwines dramaturgy and performative research. She works between Rome and New York, collaborates with spaces such as Teatro Vascello, Cranpi and Carrozzerie | N.O.T, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Her shows – from La classe to Una cosa enormi, from Aspettando Nil to En Abyme – have been given awards at main Italian and international festivals. At the center of her path: attention to scenic detail, the investigation of identity and a theatrical urgency that shakes and questions.
The Wind Trilogy is a project in three acts in which Fabiana Iacozzilli explores the great phases of life as moments of transformation: childhood and the imprint of the teachers (The Class), maturity and the complexity of taking care (A Huge Thing), and finally old age, emptiness and memory (The Great Void).
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