In collaboration with the Year 13 classes of the Checchi Institute
‘I love you because I love you’, because when we love, we love with an ineffable, inarticulate love; because when we love, we are mad. This new work stems from this reflection, freely adapted from the work of Roland Barthes. A text with a strikingly non-narrative structure (a sort of alphabetical list of themes of love) and, precisely because of this, the perfect vessel for infinite fragments: because fragments of love have always been produced, yesterday as today. Thus, Barthes’s contemporary love intertwines with the love of the classics, such as T. S. Eliot, Leopardi and Pavese, and with the love as lived today in the poems written by the student-performers, who see their declarations emerge from the depths of an imaginary diary to become true literature. The fragmented dramaturgy of this evolution of the word of love finds its counterpart in the directorial and creative style that brings the show to life, a montage of images, music and words straddling the boundary between cinematic and theatrical language, in which emotional fragments become a flow and a vision. The 1950s provide the backdrop for the unfolding action; songs and colours evoke a lively desire for familiarity, the explosion of a new and self-assured femininity, and fashion that becomes youthful and sensual. And within this setting, there is talk of love, and the gaze of love, and the movements of lovers who are dazzled and ‘unmanageable’, for love feeds only on love, love is sufficient unto itself, and shines with truth, in this ‘reality-farce’.
When
21 December 2007
Where
A. Checchi Institute – Fucecchio
