The Contemporary Regional Season, programmed by the Santa Chiara Cultural Services Centre in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile in Bolzano, continues with a double appointment characterised by the incredible talent of the couple formed by Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella.
The two artists, among the most innovative and experimental in Italy, awarded in 2018 with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale Teatro di Venezia, will star at the Teatro SanbàPolis in Trento on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 February with two of their creations: Pitecus and Hybris.
It begins on Thursday 22 February with "PITECUS", one of the first works by Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza. A show that analyzes the relationship between man and his perversions: graduates, weary, young and desperate in search of an opportunity that increases their pockets and fame, decorated with morality that speculate on the misfortunes of others, old people in search of an identity that helps them kill time before time kills them, people who lead a now customary life, individuals who sell their bodies in exchange for purely material well-being, beings who travel to enrich external and superficial cultural skills.
Pitecus tells stories of many characters, a coming and going of people who live in a disordered microcosm: rags of reality follow one another without a common thread, sublime wickedness makes even delicate topics comical and aggressive. There are no positive representations, everyone is satisfied, everyone feels like a victim, they work to hide, they buy feelings and dignity, they do not love, they create flatness and disservice.
The characters on stage are ugly somatically and internally, they give off some full-blown guts, they sink into anonymity but, thanks to their narcissism, they are convinced that they are original, contemporary and, in the most brazen cases, avant-garde. They speak a mixed dialect, are very colorful, move nervously and, through acting, take on mythical and caricatural, almost comic book, forms.
