From La Vida es sueno by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Translation, dramaturgy, imagoturgy Francesco Pititto
Installation, direction, costumes Maria Federica Maestri
Performer Barbara Voghera
Music Claudio Rocchetti
Curating Elena Sorbi
Organization Ilaria Stocchi
Communication, press office, promotion Michele Pascarella
Technical care Alice Scartapacchio
Production Lenz Fondazione
Parma, Lenz Teatro, Habitat Pubblico, 8 ottobre 2020
The question of the Calderonian masterpiece – What is life? – is enriched by a further and fundamental philosophical enigma: Who am I?
In a continuous textual mirroring, the classical duality of the dramatic couple of the prince/servant characters (Sigismondo/Clarino – the gracíoso/fool of Spanish baroque dramas) is removed from its elementary and simplifying sociological truth.
The figure of the graceful man by Calderón de la Barca appropriates Sigismondo's verses, suspended between reality and fiction, placing himself in the same human condition as the protagonist, on the same threshold between truth and dream, past and present, imagination and reality.
Forced into the single psychic body of the extraordinary sensitive actress Barbara Voghera, already Shakespearean fool in Lenz's Verdi Re Lear, prince and servant chase each other in search of a single identity with the only certainty that ‘there is no escape from the force of destiny and cruel fate; so every gesture is therefore in vain, if you want to escape Death it is certain that you will go to die’.
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