| Year/Length: | 2024, 75’ approx. (world premiere) |
|---|---|
| By: | Carolina Balucani, winner of Biennale College Teatro - Playwriting Under 40 (2022-2023) |
| Direction: | Fabrizio Arcuri |
| With: | Vincenzo Crea, Andrea Palma, Dajana Roncione, Maria Roveran |
| Set design: | Rosita Vallefuoco |
| Video: | Luca Brinchi |
| Assistant director and lighting associate: | Luca Giacomini |
| Musical advisor: | Giulio Ragno Favero |
| Production: | La Biennale di Venezia, Cranpi, La Corte Ospitale |
| With the contribution from: | MiC – Ministero della Cultura and Regione Emilia-Romagna |
| In collaboration with: | Dialoghi – Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin 2022-2024 a cura del CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia |
| With the support from: | ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare della Regione Lazio per Spazio Rossellini, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo |
Theatre
Fabrizio Arcuri / Carolina Balucani - Sleeping Beauty
Description
Four figures dressed in pink are confined to an enclosure. They’re marginal creatures, living on the edge; wounded, silenced. They choose to sleep instead of entering adult life. Like Sleeping Beauty, they touched something they were not supposed to touch and pricked their finger. As they dream, their wounds resurface.
The show opens on a dancefloor and the audience is invited to join the party. Then the party ends and night falls, giving way to nightmares and revelatory dreams. At dawn, a flock of swans signals the start of a new day. Video projections and screens serve to create the different environments, while experiencing the actors’ performances in close quarters will bring an intimacy to these small nocturnal confessions, which are as much a source of suffering as they are of liberation.