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VUOTI DI MEMORIA

Small Dramaturgy for Great Elderly

by Greta Cappelletti, Lorenzo Piccolo, Laura Tassi

from an idea by Laura Tassi

with the participation of guests

of the Elderly People's Residence "Emmaus" of Gratosoglio 

and Ilaria Guastamacchia, educator

with the collaboration, memories and friendship of Sergio Fantoni

Video of Tiziana Tomasulo 

Directed by Camilla Brison

and with

Brianza Maria (96 years old) married very well

Brison Camilla (28 years old) a little sad, a little happy director

Cappelletti Greta (30 years old) author and former singles

De Rosa Teresa (85 years old) talkative

Di Pilato Lucia (89 years old) sings "O sole mio" (O sole mio)

Spot stain breaker Ilaria (28 years old) friend of grandparents and dogs 

Marmai Carmela (95 years old) Friulian worker

Christmas Marisa (87 years old) likes novelties

Origgi Giuseppe (83 years old) pastry chef with a beautiful smile

Piccolo Lorenzo (35 years old) monogamous author and drag queen

Pozzi Mattia (27 years old) actor and latin lover (90 years old)

Reins Alice (33 years old) actress currently on tour with Strehler 

Rossi Pasqua (84 years old) third classified at the dance competition with his arm in a cast

Tassi Laura (29 years old) author with no sense of space-time orientation

Tiziana Tomasulo (32 years old) videomaker, playwright and alcoholic

Valsecchi Clara (93 years old) merchant and partisan

Vezzali Marisa (87 years old) is a bit here and a bit there

Vignelli Enrico (95 years old) a womanizer and father

Six theatre actors in their thirties and ten over-eighty look each other in the eyes in a show that tells the story of a meeting between people who are very distant in age.

The material collected, dramaturgically and scenically reworked, is the result of the stories of the "great elders" of the "Emmaus" Residence in via Baroni al Gratosoglio.  The result is a sometimes theatrical and sometimes experiential operation that revolves around the conflicts and contacts between these two ages, memories and forgetfulness that emerged in an artistic encounter and even before that, generational.

 

The frame is that of the human mind, a brain recreated on stage, a path through memory, the present and questioning the future. 

In the great elderly, but not only that, often an area becomes gloomy, then comes back to light; sometimes it happens to us too. 

The stories that have accumulated over the years in the mind, and that memory has already transformed, are reworked with the eyes of a contemporary playwright; a detail, which over time has almost been lost, returns and becomes the dramatic fire of a scene or the connection between one fragment and another.

A theatrical, conflictual, even "uncomfortable" approach between old and young people. A love-hate. On the one hand the charm of memories and elliptical answers, on the other the difficulty of reconstructing a puzzle that has lost many pieces...

The analogies and conflicts that have emerged are the basis for a show written and performed by the author-actors themselves, young and old, there are first kisses and love and marriage stories, many removals, wars, the memories of a great Hollywood actor, phrases like oracles, there are two ages in comparison.

Photo by Tiziana Tomasulo

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