LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: to be defined
TICKET: €13 full price, €11 reduced
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Nervo Vago is inspired by Alice Munro’s short story Dimensions.
After a tragic loss, Flora tries to start over, but remains trapped in a daily life made of repetitive gestures: she walks, works, takes the bus, waits. Her body seems still, permeated by grief.
When she meets Anteo again, the man who killed her children, everything fractures. He promises her the possibility of seeing them again in another dimension, and this promise draws her in, turning their bond into a dangerous dependency.
Between dependence and the desire for salvation, the performance explores the relationship between trauma and the body, where even the smallest gesture can become decisive. Saying “no” becomes a possible breaking point, the beginning of change.
The title refers to the vagus nerve, which regulates the body’s responses to danger: fight, flight or freeze. Nervo Vago explores how trauma inhabits the body and how, even within fiction, a path of transformation can emerge.
IN SHORT
A woman marked by loss meets the man responsible for the tragedy that destroyed her life. He traps her between illusion and dependency. Through body, imagination and memory, the performance explores the moment when saying “no” becomes an act capable of changing everything.
Direction and dramaturgy Rita Frongia
With Isadora Angelini, Gianluca Balducci, Silvia Lodi, Giuseppe Semeraro
Set / lighting / technical assistance Gianluca Balducci
Sound design Rita Frongia
Production DRAMA TEATRO, PRINCIPIO ATTIVO TEATRO
Rita Frongia is an actress, playwright and director. She has developed a long artistic collaboration with Claudio Morganti, resulting in productions such as Il pigiama di Macbeth, Scimmia, C’è un buio che sembra d’esser ciechi, Ombre Wozzeck, Mit Lenz and Il caso W (2019). With Morganti and the Nerval Company she co-authored Canelupo nudo.
Alongside this, she created the Trilogy of the Little Table, three comedies: La vita ha un dente d’oro, La Vecchia and Gin gìn. Her texts from the trilogy and Il caso W are published by Edizioni ETS. She also wrote Freier Klang and the lecture-performance Umanescenza.
Her recent works include L’opinione di zia Angelina, Lilith, the diptych Étoile/Star, the radio drama Gli occhiali da sole, and collaborations with companies such as Astorri Tintinelli and Andrea Cosentino.
In 2024 she created A MA’ – sogno lucido with Stefano Vercelli and premiered Guerrilla Girl – se io fossi poesia? with Angela Antonini. Among her latest appearances is Anna Ghiaccio at the Danae Festival in Milan with Isadora Angelini.
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PAROLE MOSAICO
At 20:15 at “Sala Maier” there will be “Parole Mosaico”, a short meeting before the show led by the artistic direction, to share the themes, history and language of the performance and offer some keys to interpretation.
