From Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, Hecuba and Helen by Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris and Faust by Wolfgang Goethe.
Translation and rewriting: Francesco Pititto.
Installation, direction, costumes: Maria Federica Maestri.
Music and live performance: Adriano Engelbrecht.
Cast: Sara Monferdini, Elisa Orlandini, Sandra Soncini, Barbara Voghera.
Parma, Lenz Teatro, March 8, 2003.
The last Queen of her own exclusive Self, a solitary Amazon without a bow, she bites and tears herself to pieces with the voluptuousness of verse words and the pointed arrows of a powerbook's photo booth self-portraits. A live author of her own serialization within the box of the present time – a graphia that establishes the moment of the act and the autoral feeling – she self-builds the dialogue, the combat between the present ego and the newly imprinted ego, she spreads across the battlefield, breaking down into dialogic conflictual, amorous, rancorous relationships, bordering on the assassination of the Self, of the Selbst that encompasses everything.
The physical body appears, frees itself from the theatrical envelope and operates at the MacLibro as the console of its own life. The water from the glass drowns it inside the enlarged image in a black screen stage/mouth that swallows everything and the steel book becomes sharp and pointed like a knife.
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