Muta Imago: DISLPACE # 1 LA RABBIA ROSSA

MUZEUM, Institute of Art Production, Mediation and Publishing: ŠIFT TEATER II Platform/Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts in Ljubljana

Displace #1 La rabbia rossa (Red Rage) is the first part of a larger project called Displace that will continue for the next two years.

There is a wonderful book by M. P. Shiel called The Purple Cloud written in 1901, that tells the story of the last man on earth after a great disaster that destroys the human race. We see this man wandering in an empty world made of empty cities and roads. Suddenly, by the middle of the book, the man starts to destroy everything he meets: all the ruins left by the human race. He sets fire to all the cities he crosses during his wanderings. This he does to reaffirm his being alive and unique in a world of tragic loneliness and silence. With this performance we want to investigate this feeling of rage that emerges after we’ve lost all that we’ve owned. Because inside of us, a cold star burns and memory is not only a comfortable place. And we’re not only a beam of memories and dreams. We’re a bundle of flesh that longs to move and shout. And the colour is that of rage, of the sun and of the blood, and the sweat is covered with dust. Mental disposition is everything. We have to be suns in order to create worlds. But we also have to be suns to destroy them.

Direction, lighting design: Claudia Sorace
Drama, sound: Riccardo Fazi
Costumes: Fiamma Benvignati
Technical assistance: Maria Elena Fusacchia, Massimo Troncanetti
Performers: Chiara Caimmi, Ana Basti, Valia La Rocca, Cristina Rocchetti
Organisation: Martina Merico
Photography: Luigi Angelucci
Graphics: Chiara Fazi
Production: Muta Imago
Co-production: Fondazione Teatro V.E. di Noto Regione Lazio