'evǝ'
salta a esito operazione
Theatre
by Jo Clifford
Italian translation Stefano Casi
reflected in Andrea Adriatico
with Eva Robin’s, Patrizia Bernardi, Julie J
and Anas Arqawi, Met Decay, Saverio Peschechera
set and costumes by Andrea Barberini and Giovanni Santecchia
curated by Antonio Berardone, Mila Di Giulio, Laura Rodio, Alessandra Sulmicelli, Daria Vita Fede
production Teatri di Vita
with the support of Comune di Bologna, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Ministero della Cultura
in agreement with Arcadia & Ricono ltd
by courtesy of Alan Brodie representation limited
Everyone knows the story of how God created Adam and Eve, first the male, and then the female, as an afterthought. Two distinctive genders with separate destinies.
This story points out something that’s missing: the “in between”, something happening in the middle, other than male and female. In this play, that’s how the child William, who did not like to be called this name and all she wanted was to play with the other girls, grew up. Indeed, she grew up! And now she needs to tell the spectators - men, women and all of those who are in between, or those who are a little bit of this and a little bit of that - her story, or actually her Genesis. That’s a story that everyone knows, or better…a story that not everyone knows yet.
from 23/11/2021 to 23/11/2021 hour 20.00
Jo Clifford is an English playwright and performer, based in Edinburgh. She is also a proud transwoman, father and grandmother. She has written over one hundred plays and has been awarded the Olwen Wymark Prize. Among her works, the controversial The gospel according to Jesus, queen of Heaven. During lockdown, she wrote multiple pieces for theatres and radios in England and created two sequences of short plays for her company Queen Jesus Productions. Currently, she is working on The not so ugly duckling with Maria MacDonell and The Covid requiem (with Lesley Orr) for the Pitlochry theatre. God's new frock, the original title of ev? , was written in 2002.
Andrea Adriatico, director, journalist and architect, founded Teatri di Vita in 1993 in Bologna. As a director, he developed the work of diverse authors and narratives in multiple shows presented in the context of international festivals and events, such as the Biennale di Venezia and the Spoleto Festival. Among his directed works, Lotta d’Angeli (Berlin, 1998) an Italian-French-German co-production and Orgia by Pasolini (Frankfurt, 2005). He directed documentaries about AIDS (+o- il sesso confuso, 2010) and LGBT issues, as well as the film Il vento, di sera presented at the Berlin Cinema Festival (2004), All’amore assente (2007) and Gli anni amari (2019) addressing the life of queer activist Mario Mieli.
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