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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