Lucia Calamaro
Darwin inconsolabile
(Un pezzo per anime in pena)
Teatro Caio Melisso Spazio Carla Fendi
Tickets: stalls/box € 35
Written and directed by
Lucia Calamaro
with
Assistant director
Light design
Production Sardegna Teatro with Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi and CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
An elderly woman, a performative artist, who names herself Ex Fluxus, pretends to be dead to gain her three busy, inattentive, distant, aggressive, and absent kids’ attention. She fakes her death like some animals do: Maria Grazia practices “thanatosis”, a common practice among certain species that “play dead” in order to escape predators attacks. Her could be a warning, a signal, a monition, a metaphore, or simply a performance…
A midwife daughter, crushed by her concern for the new generations, a clumsy environmentalist: Simona. A son who is a teacher in primary school, a very good man, who has got future in his hands and comes across a smoky unpublished version of The Origin of Species quoted by Borges in an interview with Bioy Casares: Riccardo. A daughter in symbiosis with her mother, plastic performer-artist, who investigates Amazonian perspectivism and the theories of the interspecies, feeling closer to the vegetal world than to the animal: Joy.