SUNDAY, 6th SEPTEMBER 2015 | 18.30 | 1h
LA PELANDA | FOYER 1

theatre

Within the frame of Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe

Confession.

(Confession of a former president who led his country to the edge of the crisis)

by Davide Carnevali
with Michele di Mauro
sounds G.U.P. Alcaro
with the support of PIIGS – Festival de Dramatúrgia sobre la crisi, Barcelona 2014
Outis Tramedautore, Milano 2014

In Confession (2012) a former president talks directly to the people, explaining what he didn’t want to say during his mandate. The former president speaks to the audience as if he were speaking in front of the court that has to judge him. Thus the spectator will be called into question, invited to play the role that every theatrical event, explicitly or implicitly, ask him to play: the one who use imagination as a weapon of criticism. In this sense, theatre is politic: a theatre for the polis, the assembly of citizens.

Confession is a play about how we use the language, or rather about how the political power uses the language, in order to create a certain image of reality. An image which subtly imposes on others, turning into hegemonic; and as hegemonic it justifies a precise use (or rather misuse) of language.

BIOGRAPHY

Davide Carnevali (Milan, 1981), playwright and PhD in Theatrical Studies. He wrote, among others: Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin (2008); Come fu che in Italia scoppiò la rivoluzione ma nessuno se ne accorse (2010); Sweet Home Europa (2011); Ritratto di donna araba che guarda il mare (2013); Lost Words (2014). His plays have been presented in various international festivals and have been translated into Catalan, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish.
Michele Di Mauro is an interpreter and theater director, G.U.P. Alcaro is a musician and sound designer. Togheter in Confessione they aim to find a way for theatre to be politic: a theatre for the polis, the assembly of citizens.