Lost in Time

Direction: Luana Gramegna

Dramaturgy: Luana Gramegna

Actors: Gianluca Gabriele, Daria Menichetti

Other credits: direction, dramaturgy, choreography Luana Gramegna sets, lights, costumes Francesco Givone Original music and live electronics Dylan Lorimer Artistic collaboration and project manager Enrica Zampetti Collaboration for sets Atelier di scenografia Zaches

Key words: teatrodanza, francis bacon, Triptych, visual theater, ombre

Production: Produzione Zaches Teatro con il sostegno di MiC e Regione Toscana, con il contributo di Fondazione CR Firenze

Year of production: 2025

Theatrical genre: Dance theatre Figure

LOST IN TIME will be the final chapter of the currently unfinished Vision Trilogy, a series of three shows inspired by the paintings of three different artists, investigating the act of seeing as an articulated form of perception.

The first two shows, "The Charm of Idiocy" and "Mal Bianco" (white pain), were presented both individually and as a diptych and received national and international awards.

The Trilogy of Vision is a theatrical journey into the perception of painting through the languages of dance, puppet theatre, mask and live electronics: if "The Charm of Idiocy" explores Goya's black paintings, "Mal Bianco" was inspired by Hokusai's manga, while "Lost in Time" looks at the work of Francis Bacon.

In turn, the sets colours are based on black, white and red.

"Lost in Time" focuses on Francis Bacon's triptych entitled "Triptych, May-June 1973", inspired by the suicide of George Dyer, Bacon's partner, who took his own life in the bathroom of the hotel room where he was staying with the painter on the eve of the exhibition's opening at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971. "I like to paint triptychs because it feels like making a film. I see the picture in series", Bacon explained.

Bacon's language, so theatrical and cinematographic at the same time, pushed us towards a dramaturgical research that followed a construction close to filmic editing.

Two parallel lines intersect: that of the physical space of the event, where time seems to have stopped at the instant before death, and the oneiric line that develops the psychological and intimate complexity of the character.