Australia – "L’anarchico non è fotogenico" by quotidiana.com theatre company
Paola Vannoni and Roberto Scappin, of Rimini based quotidiana.com theatre company, work on language, making the dialogical mechanism – synthetically indicated as Q/A – a stylistic signature.
L’anarchico non è fotogenico is the first chapter of the trilogy Tutto è bene quel che finisce, in which the company intertwines and compares the principle of a “good death”, linked to the concept of end or acceleration of a certain end, with the issue of “denied euthanasia”, referred not only to the medical field but also to politics, bio-politics and culture.
On the stage, two human beings bordering on paradox – two cowboys, later improbable dancers – go through what needs to be rethought, in a verbal game on the threshold of the absurd: from our relationship with death to that with beauty; from the sense of theatre to its relationship with the audience. A text which piece by piece opposes common opinions and the mystifications of common sense, gives a penetrating, political, and effective dialectical-gestural score.
The performance – which was also staged at the Venice Biennale 2019 – is proposed within Play-Back#7, the online review dedicated to contemporary Italian theatre promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne and curated by Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano (from August 1st to 31st on the Institute’s YouTube channel).
The review “sums up” the world of contemporary Italian theatre production with ten works (one a month, from February to November) and has already proposed two further works by other theatre companies based in Emilia-Romagna: Beast without Beauty, by C&C Company/Carlo Massari, and Totò e Vicè, by Compagnia Vetrano/Randisi – Diablogues.
Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne