The show “Human” lands in Lignano
An exceptional event that will officially open the dance of the 2nd edition of the MigrArt Festival : Art as an encounter which will take place in Lignano from 25 February, preview of the review, al 25 March.
HUMAN, a monumental theatrical show that stages an exciting epic in search of humanity where the great Lella Costa and Marco Baliani never tire of surprising and stimulating questions.
HUMAN
by Marco Baliani and Lella Costa
collaboration on the dramaturgy of Ilenia Carrone
and with David Marzi, Noemi Medas, Elisa Pistis, Luigi Pusceddu
Original music by Paolo Fresu with Gianluca Petrella
Set design by Antonio Marras
The title: the word HUMAN crossed out by a black line running through it, as if to signify the presence of the human and at the same time its possible negation.
The body is human in its physical and psychological integrity, in his individuality. When this integrity is suppressed or canceled with violence it falls into the inhuman.
Feelings are human, the emotions, the ideas, relationships, the rights. We dreamed of them as eternal and universal: we must take note – with pain, with confusion – which are not always so.
The history of our twentieth century and the events of the early 2000s tell us that intolerance and persecution, individual or mass, towards the defenseless and innocent, continue to be perpetrated unabated.
With our theatrical research we would like to insinuate ourselves into that threshold in which the human being loses its universal connotation, use theatrical forms to investigate what has been happening in recent years, before our eyes, in our Europe, understood not only as a geographical entity, ma come sistema “occidentale” di valori e di idee: the walls rising, the fundamentalisms that are advancing, the attacks that devastate the cities, refugees seeking refuge.
But if we stopped here it would be another example of so-called civil theatre, and this is not enough for us: we don't want the viewer to leave only more aware and virtuously indignant or moved. We want to displace him, disturb him, upset him, besiege him with questions. And at the same time enchant him and entertain him.
And to achieve this we will theatrically investigate precisely that sign of cancellation, that line that sanctions and severs: explore and conquer the fateful threshold that separates the human from the inhuman, deal with words, reveal contradictions, clichés, impasse, uncover conflicts, hypocrisies, unspeakable fears.
We would like to build a theater ruthlessly capable of putting its finger on the wound, where it shouldn't be, where it would be better to let it go, and touch the raw nerves of our culture regarding the human/inhuman dichotomy.
Without giving up the irony, and even humor: because perhaps only theater knows how to touch on terrible conflictual issues with the lightness of a smile, the visionary nature of the images, the irreducibility of poetry.
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