Calderón
Pier Paolo Pasolini/ Fabio Condemi
Calderón is a tragedy in verse inspired by the masterpiece of the great seventeenth-century author Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream. But the atmosphere, the plot, and the context are radically different: we are in Franco’s Spain of the 60s, amidst revolutionary turmoil and logic of power that seem to leave no other space for freedom than in Diego Velázquez’s dream or painting. Pasolini’s is in fact a ruthless and lucid x-ray of power, of its way of renewing itself and remaining very ancient, of its changes and its strategies. A labyrinthine text in which multiple levels and traces coexist in a continuous and very rich interlocking game. Traces that make Calderón a very dense text in which viewers are called to question deeply about our being in history. A text that through dreams desperately questions reality.
Spoken in Italian, with subtitles in Portuguese.
Credits:
By - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Direction set and costume conception - Fabio Condemi
With - Valentina Banci, Matilde Bernardi, Marco Cavalcoli, Michele Di Mauro, Carolina Ellero, Nico Guerzoni, Omar Madé, Caterina Meschini, Elena Rivoltini, Giulia Salvarani and Emanuele Valenti
12 € to 15 €
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