Caryl Churchill, one of the greatest living English playwrights, turns to the joyful scandal of aging womanhood in a world of perpetual youthfulness. In the new play by lacasadargilla, four women in their seventies and beyond sip tea and imagine apocalypse one unusual summer afternoon. A singular account of the deep unease that our world produces at every moment of our lives.
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Teatro Grassi
Following Anatomy of a suicide by Alice Birch, winner of five UBU awards, lacasadargilla turns to the work of Caryl Churchill, one of the most important and innovative contemporary British playwrights. Making its stage debut in Italy, Escaped Alone presents an agile and extremely acute view of a small and entirely human apocalypse, seen through the amused eyes of four women in their seventies.
Sally, Vi and Lena, long-standing friends, and Ms. Jarrett, new to the group, understand each other, even without finishing their sentences – they interrupt and correct each other, or let thoughts bubble up for the others to nurture. In this light-hearted chat between the four women with contagious verbal diarrhoea, the soliloquies of Ms. Jarrett – addressed directly to the audience in a blend of prophesy and anathema – represent a formidable dramatic device through which Escaped Alone disturbs our listless lives, breaks down preconceptions, little everyday moments of folly and habits, tying every detail of the lives of the protagonists to a threatening and extremely vivid picture of our present.
Thus, as the afternoon slides towards dusk and the four friends consume downfall of their lives as they sip tea, an unsettling refrain also announces the possible end of humanity.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Following Anatomy of a suicide by Alice Birch, winner of five UBU awards, lacasadargilla turns to the work of Caryl Churchill, one of the most important and innovative contemporary British playwrights. Making its stage debut in Italy, Escaped Alone presents an agile and extremely acute view of a small and entirely human apocalypse, seen through the amused eyes of four women in their seventies.
Sally, Vi and Lena, long-standing friends, and Ms. Jarrett, new to the group, understand each other, even without finishing their sentences – they interrupt and correct each other, or let thoughts bubble up for the others to nurture. In this light-hearted chat between the four women with contagious verbal diarrhoea, the soliloquies of Ms. Jarrett – addressed directly to the audience in a blend of prophesy and anathema – represent a formidable dramatic device through which Escaped Alone disturbs our listless lives, breaks down preconceptions, little everyday moments of folly and habits, tying every detail of the lives of the protagonists to a threatening and extremely vivid picture of our present.
Thus, as the afternoon slides towards dusk and the four friends consume downfall of their lives as they sip tea, an unsettling refrain also announces the possible end of humanity.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
Escaped Alone
PREMIERE
by Caryll Churchill
translated by Monica Capuani
a project by lacasadargilla
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni
with Caterina Carpio, Tania Garribba, Arianna Gaudio, Alice Palazzi
dramaturg Margherita Mauro
soundscapes and scenic space Alessandro Ferroni
dramaturgy of movements Marta Ciappina
sets Marco Rossi and Francesca Sgariboldi
visual environments Maddalena Parise
lighting dramaturgy Luigi Biondi
costumes Anna Missaglia
research support Marco d’Agostin
director’s assistant Matteo Finamore
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale production
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Category of performance: Co-production
Stalls full price € 40 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 23
Balcony full price € 32 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 20
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