LA MIA AMICA OMBRA
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HOUSE OF THE SELF
(a full-evening work by Francesco Vecchione)
World premiere: Teatro Piccolo Bellini (Napoli) May 4th 2024
Directed by: Francesco Vecchione
Music: Franz Schubert (from “Death and the Maiden), Luigi Tenco (Il tempo dei limoni), Jan van Triest (original composition and arrangement)
Performed by:
Maria Anzivino, Manuela facelgi, Shih-Ping Lin, Antonio Tello
Giorgia Aiello, Gioele Barrella, Marianna Capasso, Luigi Carpetta, Rossella Cesarano, Roberta Cioci, Immacolata Friscuolo, Agnese Modena, Rosa Pellino, Sabrina Talamo, Alexis Wood.
Stage: Francesco Vecchione
Light: Francesco Vecchione
Costumes: Francesco Vecchione and Leandro Fabbri
Costumes by Leandro Fabbri e Francesco Vecchione Masks by Luca Arcamone
An Art Garage production
photo: Federica Capo
“La mia amica Ombra is a macabre fairy tale with touches of surrealism.
A labyrinth of images and stories where nothing is what it seems: a dream within a dream.”
Francesco Vecchione, together with the dancers, gave shape and life to his dreams and ghosts, nightmares and shadows.
The theater turns into a haunted house where imaginary characters emerge from the walls to tell and live their own stories, constantly losing themselves and finding themselves in a game of attraction and repulsion, dependence and redemption as prisoners of the eternal loop of Limbo.
“With this work I invite the public to enter the house of the Self made of labyrinths and mirrors and a thousand and one versions of us.
That house in which we all live and which exudes the memory of who we were, the desire of who we would have liked to be and who we are forced to be instead. Who are we when we are alone? When we are stripped of masks and clothes, when without being able to move our gaze we have no choice but to look our most authentic self in the eyes.”
“…And then the absence becomes presence and the monsters generate dreams which, in turn, contain others. The desire to escape looms but staying in that room to face everything, naked, in front of a mirror is not only a challenge but it becomes a necessity and, probably, the only real way out.”
Gabriella Diliberto
“La mia amica Ombra by Francesco Vecchione is the photograph of a reality stripped and mocked at the moment in which she screams to be authentic and pure. Vecchione’s direction embodies, in its most extreme and crude form and representation, Pirandello’s poetics of Uno, nessuno e centomila…”
Corinne Bove
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