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(DIS)Umanə: a Voice Beyond Consolation

(DIS)Umanə: a Voice Beyond Consolation

Originally published in Italian for Stratagemmi. A loop station, a bottle of alcohol, a stage scattered with crumpled sheets of paper. A single glance is enough to grasp the irreverent and disorienting charge of UMANƏ, a performance by Camilla Violante Scheller (aka Navëe) staged at Cascinet all’Ortica. The work

You Really Think You’re Special?

You Really Think You’re Special?

Originally published in Italian for Stratagemmi. Writing a debut work is no small feat. For many emerging artists, the easiest path is the autobiographical one: starting from the self to explore the cracks of a generation, an era, a shared identity. Stupido Unicorno, the latest stop in Tobia Rossi’s

Bacchae: Making a Glorious Mess

Bacchae: Making a Glorious Mess

Originally published for FermataSpettacolo. Some performances ask to be interpreted; others ask to be experienced. Santolini’s Bacchae seems to belong to a third category: work that asks to be accepted, however provocative and challenging it may be. Nudity, blasphemy, games, screams: the show oscillates between ritual and collapse, tenderness

Does the earth ache as roots dig into it?

Does the earth ache as roots dig into it?

Originally published in Italian for Fermata Spettacolo. The set of Things I Know to Be True unfolds as an arboreal labyrinth. A revolving stage accommodates a large L-shaped kitchen counter, around which an armchair, a table, a mini-fridge, and a sofa are arranged. Yet it is the vegetal

ROHTKO (SIC!): Original vs Copy

ROHTKO (SIC!): Original vs Copy

Originally written in Italian for Fermata Spettcolo. England, 1960s. A restorer named Tom Keating produces countless paintings in the style of the great masters, but hides within each what he calls “time bombs”: small clues that will one day reveal them as fakes. What does this curious story have to

When you are silenced: '88 Frequenze'

When you are silenced: '88 Frequenze'

Originally published in Italian for Fermata Spettacolo. Link to the original. Seated at the centre of a ring-light diaphragm, those familiar tools of the self-tape auditions so loathed by performers, an actress (Antonella Carone) watches her own self-tape on a loop. Behind her, a long white cloth

Story of the story

Story of the story

Editorial for Stormi. Traiettorie sulla Stagione, issue 4, 2023 Issued by Piccolo Teatro di Milano ‘There is properly no history; only biography.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson When we try to put a face to the struggles against racial segregation in 1950s America, many of us likely picture Rosa Parks seated on