Clothes are like skin, a skin of cloth that dresses our soul. And the soul is capable of sewing, stitching and unstitching every joy and every pain. Piece by piece, preserving the painting of our essence intact. The Italian-language, performance-based play had a first study in 2019 and has been touring several countries (France, Russia, Qatar).
In this second study, actors will tell the story of the Island of Sardinia through costumes, narrating the text as multiple characters of a single narrative with a strong stage impact. A man is about to step into the void, the future for him already foreclosed by the war that awaits him. Before leaving, he lingers with his companion, enraptured by the fascination of memories that her dress releases.
The costume becomes the protagonist of historical episodes and personal events: falling in love, courtship, marriage, mourning, tragic or happy events, all embroidered and recounted on the fabric, to communicate to other women and to the whole village the experience of one’s life. But those embroideries, signs, cloths, symbols and colors, carry human and emotional events, the extrusion of one’s state of mind and the poetry of existence. One dress lasted a lifetime, told through its embroidery the story of each family and its relationship with the community, enclosed in its ornaments sorrow, tenderness, love, joys and sorrows but above all memories.
In the culture of Sardinia, the dress of tradition acquired the form of a casket that contained in its weaving the signs of each person’s history and life. Each dress was capable of being a photograph of the lived experience of the wearer. A romantic journey in which the invisible protagonist of a love story will be the female dress and its social function in ancient Sardinia. A theatrical and musical fairy tale in which customs, social roles, daily and family life are narrated in the word “Farewell.” The performance will last 50 minutes.
(in Italian)
Text and direction: Alice Capitanio
On stage
Agnese Fois
Emanuele Bosu
Roberta Crivelli
Leonardo Tomasi
Assistant director and organization: Elena Piseddu
Production manager: Luca Sorrentino
Costumes: Filippo Grandulli
April 25, 2024 | 6 PM
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
686 Park Avenue, NY
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