L’esausto o il profondo azzurro

Set Design, Video Design

Paolo Calafiore

Direction

Julia Varley (Odin Teatret)

Teatro Mercadante, Napoli

2008

Photos

Tommaso Le Pera

Abstract

Like the white interior of a shipping container stationed in an unspecified place, a cold and aseptic space that carries forced inside it the Exhausted and its inseparable shadow produced by a cold artificial light, which suddenly splits into two, becoming a body and accompanying and lifting the Exhausted from its continuous, countless endless falls. Words, gestures, choreography follow one another in a score of Beckettian notes, refracted and reflected until they dissolve into the water.

Press review

With very few objects, in an empty stage, “space becomes time”: the seventy-minute performance is all to watch and also to hear... Very young audience and great success.
Franco Quadri, La Repubblica (2nd june 2008)

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The final image is striking, when the exhausted man is mirrored and his body is reflected first on a light background, then on a dark background, becoming light itself. There is in this performance an undeniable order, there is a stylistic continuity, a coherence.
Franco Cordelli, Corriere della Sera (8th june 2008)