FAIRY TALE

Directing: GIORGIA CERRUTI

Dramaturgy: FABRIZIO SINISI

Actors: DAVIDE GIGLIO, GIORGIA CERRUTI

Other credits: co-produced with TPE/Teatro Piemonte Europa, CTB/Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Teatro della Città/Catania, Gli Scarti/La Spezia
supported by TAP/Torino Arti Performative; residence support Teatro di Sardegna, Dracma Centro Residenze (RC), Claps Circuito Lombardo (BS), Teatro Eugenio Fassino, Avigliana (TO).

Key words: FAVOLA, MAGNOLIA, SINISI, VIDEO ARTE, PASOLINI

Production: a play of Piccola Compagnia della Magnolia

Year of production: 2022

Theatrical genre: Prose

A woman and a man, locked in a room. For a reason that is never mentioned, they cannot leave. In this claustrophobic space, dominated only by a large screen, the woman stages three stories. Three visions, three dreams, each taking place at a different time in history: in London in 1617, in Paris in 1793, in Boone County in 1856. In each episode, she "G." and her husband "D." are the protagonists of a violence, of a hold of the man on the woman, of the powerful on the defenseless. Each episode is a pivotal moment in Western modernity, a key moment for understanding the contradictory identity of the present. But each dream is also an enigma through which hides the pain of the woman who, through these stories, tries to touch the trauma of her past: a daughter, whose presence is announced from the beginning, but who is mysteriously never seen. On the stage - the place of reality - the protagonists G. and D. retrace the story of their pain, every day, in the time between sleeping and waking. The bridge to this dark path is a large screen behind them: we are inside her skull, the place of the repressed, of the transformation, the sieve of the memory of lost sequences. FAIRY TALE crosses the territories of reality and dream, creating an osmosis between the specific languages of theatre and video. Fabrizio Sinisi writes on the skin of Giorgia Cerruti and Davide Giglio - the founding souls of Piccola Compagnia della Magnolia - an abysmal and visionary text, poetic and political at the same time: a dance for two, an age-old ritual through which a young couple, in the mirror of their relationship, radically questions the justice of today's society. FAVOLA - FAIRYTALE is an experiment for a political theater practiced with the tools of poetry. This new creation is also a methodological journey to try a theater that declares its means without expecting the illusion in the spectator, with the ultimate goal of trying to break some walls.