MARATHON NEW YORK
Edoardo Erba
directed by and starring George Cristian Giammarini and Lupano
Production Teatro Stabile delle Marche
An aerial view of New York with music that accentuates the charm of the charm of this city, until it was lost in a vision of the starry sky. So begins this staged by and starring Cristian Giammarini (actor ronconiana school and "elf" for a long time) and George Lupano (alternating between theater, television and cinema), which give rise to the appearance of history and the dream ' atmosphere rarefied atmosphere of the setting.
New York Marathon is a brief note that Edward Grass wrote at the beginning of his career by attracting national and international spotlight: Candoni Prize winner in 1992, the text has been translated into English, Catalan, English, Israeli and Friuli , and was represented in London, Edimurgo, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBuenos Aires, Tel Aviv and Paris. A successfully extended, in, trying to investigate the reasons, we find the reasons in the dialogues that tell a light generation (that of the thirty or so), the progressive depth in which they push the issues mentioned and the questions that the two protagonists do, nuances of the characters, contours less delineated. But most of the race as a metaphor for the beautiful life of toil as a struggle, of training in preparation for the redemption of the past and the future victory.
The normality of the situation gradually takes on shades of pinteriane: In the normal situation (two friends, Steve and Mario, who meet to work out at night in the race towards the goal indicated by the title of the piece ) emerge gradually the uncertainty of reference of place (in a landscape that Mario does not recognize more) especially of the same real identity of the two protagonists remains shrouded in fog, the hypothesis that the two are brothers who are dead, they are the same person in the representation of an "I" doubled in constant dialogue with himself.
The exhibition highlights these elements in an effective manner: the scene, surrounded by the soft edges, and uncertain of blacks, is supported in video projections with which contaminates the language of the word: the texture is both visual environment (the image of the path at night) and - especially - the symbolic (the initial skyline of New York to identify the objective of their race, a starry sky on which are drawn constellations - the symbol of the dreams that animate the two characters, images and short in some visionary moments that break down the projection of the sky).
The rhythm is punctuated by excellent ride and Giammarini Lupano (tireless on stage): suspended in a rhythm that breaks are spent developing the memories of childhood games of jealousy and youth issues and questions set by light (like the camaraderie story of how they met or reflections on women) that deepen in the second part (the existence of God, family relationships).
The show is divided into three blocks marked by many moments of suspension: the first part is the most realistic, with two friends who meet and begin talking of issues to run light, while the second will gradually reveal the metaphorical suggestions of the Marathon as a destination to life, running how to live, of pain as a barrier to be removed with the insistence and persistence in the stand and finally gives way to the third metaphysical suggestions dream, in a space without boundaries and identity cross and undefined.
The two actors on stage suited exactly to their physical characters expressing the character: Mario (Giammarimi) is more timid, resigned, caught between fears and childish, Steve (Lupano) is confident it has certainties and enthusiasms leads to a more aggressive attitude towards life. Initially Steve is better to hold the race (read: life), but in the last match will be Mario to be able to rise from reality and reach the goal, the dream. Franco Quadri (introduction to the texts of Edoardo Erba) saw this exchange of positions in the defeat of Steve that remains tied to its permanence in the real, while the audience follows Mario in his trance competitive in a race that seems to be among those stars that form the background.
The public has made the proper recognition to the two performers with sincere applause and repeated calls. We'd love to hear the same heat in many Milanese audiences a bit 'chilled.
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