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IL FURIOSO

THE FURIOUS

THE FURIOUS (1) > #1 THE ESCAPE #2 THE ISLE #3 THE MAN #4 THE PALACE
BIENNAL PROJECT ABOUT THE LUDOVICO ARIOSTO’S ORLANDO FURIOSO

Padiglione Rasori | Ospedale Maggiore di Parma
19, 20, 21 november | h 9:00 p.m.
26, 27, 28 november | 9:00 p.m.

After having directed its attention to Alessandro Manzoni, Lenz continues on researching in the archetypes of Italian language, going back to Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, which is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance period. The bravery and the lunacy are spread across the whole poem like a rhizome; Orlando’s excessive, paradoxical exaggerated frenzy not only explodes within him who however is a perfect, invincible, innocent sane knight of sound principles but also represents the poem’s poetical-linguistic and aesthetic own structure. This is misplaced like the reason inside “the bottle which contained his wits, founded on the Moon by Astolfo and returned to Orlando’s body” as Calvino wrote in the introduction of his Furious. The nervous system of Orlando Furioso consists not only in the loss of one’s own, but also in the disappearance of the things, the reality, the corresponding stories, the plot, the magic, the desire and of the spatial explosion of the narrative contexts: the most blind and sudden brutality which designs poetical frameworks that were original in respect to the chivalric literature stereotypes.  After the realisation of the first two chapters of The Furious, which were installed in the amazing spaces of the Guatelli Museum, Lenz Foundation will present the new chapters #3 The Man and #4 The Palace and – together with a new mise-en-site of the chapters #1 The Escape and #2 The Isle – within the twentieth edition of Natura dei Teatri festival from the 19 to the 28 November.