| Year/Length: | 2023, 75’ |
|---|---|
| By: | Anton Chekhov |
| Direction: | Claudia Sorace |
| Dramaturgy, sound: | Riccardo Fazi |
| With: | Federica Dordei, Monica Piseddu, Arianna Pozzoli |
| Original score performed live by: | Lorenzo Tomio |
| Set design: | Paola Villani |
| Technical director, lighting design: | Maria Elena Fusacchia |
| Sound operator: | Emanuele Pontecorvo |
| Costumes: | Fiamma Benvignati |
| Production, management, administration: | Valentina Bertolino, Silvia Parlani, Grazia Sgueglia |
| Co-produced by: | Index, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa |
| In collaboration with: | Amat & Teatri di Pesaro for Pesaro 2024 – Italian Capital of Culture |
| With support from: | MiC – Ministero della Cultura |
| Image used on stage: | Millefleur tapestry, also called “of the Adoration” (1530/1535), courtesy Pistoia Musei (photo by Antonio Quattrone) |
Theatre
Muta Imago - Tre sorelle
Description
We looked through every word of Chekhov’s Three Sisters to locate where this struggle, this continuous effort to build a safehouse against the unstoppable flow of events rung true. We started from these three women – as in the title, which not without reason places them at the centre of everything. Three women left on their own, in the echo-filled void of a house everyone has already left.
Like sorceresses or mediums, the sisters deploy survival strategies. They are traversed by the voices and bodies of the male characters. They revisit moments, places and situations in the story. They use the raw material found in repetition, metamorphosis, ambiguity and fragmentation to breathe life, again and again, into the figures that now belong to their lives (to their past as much as to their future). There is a continuous and simultaneous exercise of exorcism and possession.