Tramedautore - Lourdes
Concluded
A caustic and enjoyable play based on the novel of the same name by Rosa Matteucci: an irreverent pilgrimage to a place that blends the sacred and the profane, religion and popular beliefs, in which Andrea Cosentino takes on the role of a “Lady of Charity” surrounded by a band of improbable and surreal characters.
Teatro Grassi
In the free adaptation by Luca Ricci of the debut novel of the same name written by Rosa Matteucci, Andrea Consentino creates a delightful carnival of characters, each one with their own hopes and expectations, all on their way to Lourdes, all waiting for a miracle.
Wrapped up in her travel uniform, the young Maria Angulema, incongruous temporary lady of charity, prepares to begin her pilgrimage to Lourdes with a secret and burning objective: to free herself of the heavy burden of pain that she has been carrying since her father died in a car accident - and to “ask for a formal explanation and perhaps satisfaction for so much suffering from the Eternal Father”. Resolute in her objective, armed only with her “faded and battered soul”, the temp immediately finds herself, right from the departure station, submerged by a “noisy crowd of pilgrims, relatives of pilgrims, true invalids, relatives of these true invalids, false invalids, relatives of these false invalids, the curious, those with nothing better to do, military personnel on leave, Nigerian whores, ladies or sisters of charity - this final category recognisable by their uniform, identical to that of Maria -, stretcher bearers and brothers”.
In the free adaptation by Luca Ricci of the debut novel of the same name written by Rosa Matteucci, Andrea Consentino creates a delightful carnival of characters, each one with their own hopes and expectations, all on their way to Lourdes, all waiting for a miracle.
Wrapped up in her travel uniform, the young Maria Angulema, incongruous temporary lady of charity, prepares to begin her pilgrimage to Lourdes with a secret and burning objective: to free herself of the heavy burden of pain that she has been carrying since her father died in a car accident - and to “ask for a formal explanation and perhaps satisfaction for so much suffering from the Eternal Father”. Resolute in her objective, armed only with her “faded and battered soul”, the temp immediately finds herself, right from the departure station, submerged by a “noisy crowd of pilgrims, relatives of pilgrims, true invalids, relatives of these true invalids, false invalids, relatives of these false invalids, the curious, those with nothing better to do, military personnel on leave, Nigerian whores, ladies or sisters of charity - this final category recognisable by their uniform, identical to that of Maria -, stretcher bearers and brothers”.
Credits
Piccolo Teatro Grassi
Monday 23 September 2016, 8.30 pm
ITALY
Lourdes
with Andrea Cosentino
a free adaptation of “Lourdes” by Rosa Matteucci (Adelphi, 1998)
adapted and directed by Luca Ricci
collaboration on the stageplay by Andrea Cosentino
original live music by Danila Massimi
Winning play in I Teatri del Sacro (Theatre of the Sacred) 2015
a Kilowatt Festival, Pierfrancesco Pisani, Infinito srl co-production
with the support of Regione Toscana, Federgat, I Teatri del Sacro
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