Teatro delle Albe in Poland and Slovenia
MOTHER is the story of a son and his mother, who lives on a farm. She has fallen into a well. Was she distracted? Is she losing her mind? Did she do it on purpose? This is not a dialogue; it is a diptych made up of two monologues. The son scolds the mother and then goes to look for tools – winches and muskets, iron tubes and pulleys, all the “technology” required to pull her out. The mother, from deep inside herself – and from inside a well that seems as deep as infinity – confesses not to be afraid, not to feel distressed. In this desolate landscape, the allegory of an increasingly poisoned Mother Earth emerges, the nightmare of a “technology” that, instead of discretely helping humanity, imposes itself arrogantly in all its potential for destruction, ruining age-old balances.
Three artists came together to create MOTHER: Ermanna Montanari, actress and writer, Stefano Ricci, painter and illustrator, and Daniele Roccato, composer and double bass soloist. On the dramaturgy written for them by Marco Martinelli, they move onstage mingling Ricci’s dreamlike live illustrations with Montanari’s magmatic vocal sonorities, which give voice to both the Son and the Mother, and the sweet and heartrending sounds of Roccato’s double bass.
Defined by critics “a theatrical jewel of rare beauty “, the show crosses national borders for the first time.
On March 21 it is guest of the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole as part of its annual festival “Maraton Teatralny” (5 pm).
On March 24 it will be on stage at the Slovenian National Theatre in Nova Gorica (8 pm).
The tour has the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Italian Cultural Institutes in Krakow and Ljubljana, Emilia-Romagna Region and ATER Fondazione.