Giorgina Pi / Stefano Fortin - Cenere

Cenere is a play about the need to say something, to speak out. But this is also a play that gallops through history: from Pasolini’s funeral to the G8 in Genoa to our present time.
The scenes depict three distinct moments of speech: a son is called down to breakfast by his parents (No); a policeman has to inform two parents of their son’s death (Here); a victim talks about who they are and what has happened to them (Everything). As well as the characters, the author’s voice also features, and it can choose to intervene, observing and commenting on what is happening onstage through the author’s notes. These notes are different for every production, as they attempt to place the text in dialogue with the reality of the world going on outside.

An inconsolable loneliness permeates the entire play, a darkness that can hardly be lightened up, in which the character of the author – who is also the character of the victim – relentlessly sets fire to his own words. The ashes that fall on this desperate ritual are like distant sounds: gradually, as in the slow pan of a camera, they turn into the deafening live noise and feedback of a rehearsal room, and a close-up on the protagonist’s face.