By David Foster Wallace
Director and playwright Daniel Veronese with Lino Musella and Paolo Mazzarelli
Technical management Marciano Rizzo and Gianluca Tomasella
David Foster Wallace is considered one of the greatest American writers of the early 21st century. A brilliant storyteller and author, Wallace was a restless soul and mind, a meteor who passed away prematurely in 2008 at the age of 46, leaving an indelible mark on the international literary landscape.
The playwright and director Daniel Veronese, undisputed master of Argentine and Latin American theatre, brings to the stage a selection of short stories from the book Brief Interviews with Disgusting Men published by Wallace in 1999 in the USA. In these imaginary interviews, Wallace's irresistible irony treats human nature with supreme skill in describing the everyday; his is a humor so steeped in drama that it borders on sadism. With a fierce look and a lot of humor, Veronese gives life to a sable of perversions and pettiness, which portray the contemporary male as a weak being, who resorts to cynicism if not to violence as the main relational modality with the other sex. The director transforms Wallace's monologues into dialogues between a man and a woman, played on stage by two men, who alternate in roles. A performance as comical as it is disturbing, revealing the fragility, jealousy, desire for possession, violence and cynicism inherent in emotional relationships.
