Starting Thursday, the Teatro Tram will stage catharsis with “Io sono plurale,” a show directed by Maria Claudia Pesapane, a finalist for the “Regista con la A” Award that the theater in via Port'Alba launched to give greater space to women involved in directing. Actors Daria D'Amore, Chiara Di Bernardo, and Mariano Di Palo will bring to life a story of disappointment and redemption, when love ends and leaves behind bitterness and regrets. On the occasion of the show, on stage from November 17 to 20, a call has been activated to invite spectators to donate objects linked to their traumatic past.
“Io sono Plurale” is the stream of consciousness of someone who no longer finds themselves in life, of someone who needs to exorcise memories that obsess and prevent them from forgiving and forgiving themselves, to feel free to live once again. It is the story of a rebirth from a great pain, from the end of an overwhelming relationship, which abandoned Graciela, the protagonist, in a black vortex from which she believed she would never be able to get up again.
The scene opens with the protagonist, drunk, intent on packing her husband's bags, who in reality has already been gone for a long time, but she still can't accept it. She then collects all of his clothes left in the house, forming a tall pile that dominates the scene and symbolically expresses the "monster" from which she must free herself in order to start living again. During her journey she will bring back to the surface some of the memories of a significant experience of her love story, also made up of humiliations and betrayals. But she will also dream of love, the "perfect" one, the one perhaps unattainable, that love that she desires and that will give her the strength to get up and finally start loving herself.
Everyone has a place where dreams are kept, a vital energy full of stimuli and purposes, like a “Well of Wishes”. Here then the rebellion begins, the desire to find happiness and the lost identity. But in order to redeem ourselves, to be able to get up again we need to “vomit” our evil, to give it back a form, to have it there in front of our eyes, to look at it, relive it and understand that it is made of a destructible substance.
“The research, which then led to the definitive form of the show, began a few years ago from a personal event in my life – explains Maria Claudia Pesapane -: those moments when you are invaded by a pain that physically disables you, you can't control your anger, you feel completely lost and you don't see any light at the end of this tunnel. Here, I Am Plural turns on the lighthouse in this dark tunnel, tries to make us see that light. Graciela's idealization of her husband, which seems to prevent her from believing in herself and which leads her to sink into a blind tunnel, materializes on the scene in a huge pile of clothes, like a "huge monster" from which to free herself".
“Io Sono Plurale”, in addition to being a theatrical show, is a project that aims to actively involve the community. At each performance, a call is opened asking anyone who wants to donate a piece of clothing related to a person or a pain to be exorcised. From the collection of all this material, the “monster” of clothes was formed, a pile that is always evolving, a pile that is different at each show.
“We have had job openings in the form of study – continues Pesapane -, but for these dates at the Tram the show will be staged in a definitive form. “Bring your catharsis on stage” has somehow become the manifesto of Io Sono Plurale. This show is in fact the story of a catharsis that takes place on stage, a catharsis shared with the audience in the theater”.
Article published on November 14, 2022 - 18:04
