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CATCH ME
The house inside Ennio
“Every man is born as many men and dies as only one.”
M. Heidegger
Five years ago, during research for a show, we came across a trunk full of old photos and knick-knacks; along with these objects, 15 tapes on which a voice, always the same, recorded various dreams, 106 in total. By exploring this collection of materials, like an archive yet to be catalogued, we understood, discovered, or perhaps decided that all those objects had belonged to a single human being, whose name appears in most of the documents and on the back of many photographs: Ennio.
From listening to the audiotapes and studying the memorabilia contained in the trunk, the idea was born to create a show, a theatrical documentary in which to give life and body to the recorded dreams, using the objects as clues, relics, or evidence in order to reconstruct the identity contours of this character's silhouette, all the more hypnotic the more fragmented and elusive it is.
The staging project gradually took on the structure of a mystery about repression and the self, casting an ambiguous and faint light on the scene. From the darkness in which we grope, representations of dreams and actors searching for Ennio emerge, illuminated almost exclusively by flashlights and bedside lamps. The traces he left us, while bearing witness to the life, fears, anxieties, and desires of a single individual, allude to and refer to the absolute of human experience. In the attempt to reconstruct Ennio, in fact, each performer ends up proposing a version that resembles him or her, like a reflection in which to recognize oneself or to fall in love with.
The text, composed through stage writing and with the collaboration of a dramaturg, is divided into four acts, marking the key phases of the absent protagonist's life. The objects contained in the trunk and the recorded dreams not included in the show are made available to the audience, in the interactive exhibition set up in the theater foyer.
Credits Directed by Roberto Andolfi Dramaturg Rosalinda Conti Assistant director Alessia Giglio With Maria Vittoria Argenti, Dario Carbone, Annarita Colucci, Valeria D’Angelo, Anton De Guglielmo Costumes Annarita Colucci Set Illoco Teatro Lighting consultant Emilio Barone Organization and communication Cecilia Carponi Psychoanalytic consultant Omar Imili Guicci A show by Illoco Teatro Co-production Teatro nel bicchiere Festival di Maremma
Catch Me is a chase.
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