Teatro dei Gordi – 2024
Sidenotes
With
Claudia Caldarano, Cecilia Campani, Daniele Cavone Felicioni, Antonio Gargiulo, Zoe Guerrera, Giovanni Longhin, Andrea Panigatti, Sandro Pivotti, Maria Vittoria Scarlattei, Matteo Vitanza
Directing
Riccardo Pippa
Set Design
Anna Cingi
Light Design
Alice Colla
Costumes
Ilaria Ariemme
Sound Design
Luca De Marinis
produced by Teatro Franco Parenti / TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa
/ LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
Stage design built in the scenography laboratory of Teatro Franco Parenti. Costumes made at the tailoring of Teatro Franco Parenti directed by Simona Dondoni.
Description
Thus, the funeral ceremony becomes one final tragic comedy of life!
A funeral wake is on stage: an open coffiin, some vestments and some visitors. In rituals, death must seem like a rest, the deceased still present, the unanimous pain and the ceremony adhering to the last or presumed wishes. But these premises always collide with the different truths of the relatives, the unexpected events, the awkwardness and the various ways of dealing with mourning. There are those who drink a beer with the dead, those who answer the phone, those who cry desperately and those who just cannot cry…
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