On stage at the Teatro Traam 'Bathroom'A show by and with Valeria Impagliazzo, with live performances of Pasquale Ruocco's music. From 10 to 13 November, a text on women on stage in a space of intimate truth
An undisputed icon of television who becomes a starting point for reflection on the contemporary female condition: the songs of Raffaella Carrà - an innovative woman and symbol of determination and elegant emancipation, who passed away just over a year ago - will be the inspiration for the next show on stage at the Teatro Tram in Naples, "Bathroom", by and with Valeria Impagliazzo. Scheduled from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 November, the text will bring to the stage of the hall in via Port'Alba the reflections of a woman locked in a bathroom, alone with herself, grappling with the difficulties of life and the female condition. The subtitle is eloquent: Dialogues for women, hair dryers and Raffaella Carrà.
A woman alone in a bathroom gets ready for a date. A sudden noise scares her, breaking the magic ritual of the hairdryer. Thus the bathroom, a place par excellence of intimacy and solitude, becomes the setting for a hand-to-hand fight between the protagonist and her thoughts. In the normality of small gestures, her strategies for fighting anxiety, fear, memories, fantasies reveal themselves, leaving room for a soliloquy/dialogue made of words never said addressed to a mirror/audience that, little by little, turns into a confessional, an enemy, a playmate, an interlocutor... until it becomes a real voyeur.
The bathroom, “Bathroom”, thus becomes a suspended place, a space of truth and reflections that range from Bauman's liquid love to the passionate lovers of Raffaella Carrà's songs, a moment of reaction and at the same time a funny and disillusioned rendering in front of the fluidity of human relationships.
“The text is the result not only of my reflections and experiences but also of a deep observation of the phenomena that surround me and that unite us all. – explains Valeria Impagliazzo -. It is a feminine story but not purely feminine. This is also why I didn't give a name to the woman on stage. The idea is to tell about intimacy, to make the spectator a sort of mirror and at the same time a voyeur. 'Bathroom' is a funny and dark story made of soliloquies, unsaid words, attempts to escape from the anxiety of everyday life and a submerged pain that is healed by Raffaella Carrà's songs that thus become company and distraction. The text, however, is not made up of words alone. In fact, the music composed by Pasquale Ruocco accompanies the protagonist's states of mind”.
“In my approach to the music for this show, I first of all relied on very precise indications that I received from Valeria regarding what the sound mood should be and the role that this should have in the dynamics of the scene. – explains Ruocco, who will perform his compositions live -. One of the tracks I composed is actually a re-proposition of the melodic line of a song by Raffaella Carrà, deconstructed and destructured, so as to create a reference to the original piece but giving it a totally different setting and colors. The others are instead a real support to what the text, the scenography and the succession of the character's moods have evoked. The sound masses I have are in short aimed at accompanying and supporting the show in its emotional curves without ever overpowering".
Article published on November 9, 2022 - 10:21
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