Great applause of consensus, on Friday 18 November ca at the Teatro del Canovaccio in Catania, paid tribute to the first show on the bill entitled “Signorsì! It’s the skein”, text and direction by Agata Raineri, original music by Alessandro Cavalieri, scenography and costumes by Chiara Viscuso, lighting technician Simone Raimondo. Teatro del Canovaccio production in Catania.
The poetry, the dreamlike evocation, the romanticism of the bench in the center of the scene covered by tree branches with foliage with wooden boxes on the sides embraced by the greenery of nature, scattered wooden logs and a woven net (the skein) at the bottom: this is the beautiful scene set up by Chiara Viscuso who also took care of the costumes which are very appropriate to the themes of the text by Agata Raineri, an original, witty but above all very courageous and scathing text directed with pure heart and enthusiasm.
The quality and beauty of Maestro Alessandro Cavalieri’s musical carpets form the pimply and elegant setting for a text based on surrealistic and speaking theater where our existence is twisted in a skein; all the problems of existence create an internal war conflict, living itself is a daily war. Each man fights his own with the discipline of a soldier (hence the “Signori” of the title, a discipline that ex-soldier Miles, the caretaker, proudly boasts) and has to deal with his own childhood traumas, vices, conscious fears and unconscious, illusions and disillusions, family severity traumas of the protagonist, the Red Cross nurse Lady Bag who at times recalls the poetry of Mary Poppins.
In a vast and tight dialogue, at times similar to a tongue twister, in a crescendo of rhythms that in some points become almost asphyxiating enough to take your breath away, a metaphor of the continuous human race towards a spasmodic search for nothingness, the whole show is a continuous metaphor of the “bad life”, the exorcism of that ballast that does not allow us to look at the sky until we can shout “let’s go!”, let’s go get ourselves, or rather, to recover that spirituality that elevates us towards real life, towards the real purpose for which we were created.
It is in a dream, that of Lady Bag together with the somewhat deaf caretaker Miles, that the skein unravels, that dream that finally wins the war with life’s problems: it is in that small balloon suspended between heaven and earth that the man and the woman find shelter from the explosion of the bomb, the well-deserved birthday present of the sweet and sensitive Lady Bag.
Every drama, every truma seems to take refuge in a wanted madness, sought and then abandoned in flashes of ephemeral lucidity like a bolt of lightning in the night that pierces the sky-soul, bringing back to reality a mind too accustomed to military or family rigor lost in oblivion as a shelter emotional.
Duties suffocate us, make us short of air, limit our actions, cut off our wings. Hence Lady Bag’s claustrophobia: hers is a real hunger for oxygen: her anxieties transmitted by her father’s excessive rigor prevents her from fully enjoying the important mission she has for her.
Talking about human existence is not trivial stuff and doing it with wit by combining tragedy and comedy, is a talent for few: Agata Raineri has shown in this articulated text that she knows how to dose them with great skill, amusing and exciting and prompting a profound reflection on the condition Human.
Excellent actors, great scenic harmony in a rapid dialogue, linked like links in a chain, swirling and convulsive that almost takes your breath away. The spectator feels sucked into that vortex almost in apnea, kidnapped by the interpretative skill of Maria Grazia Cavallaro, sweet and childish, polite and Luciano Leotta very funny and with a mime and a catchphrase that elicit a lot of laughs.
Two great actor tests passed with great dexterity and professionalism.
In her notes, Agata Raineri, actress, director, author and talented singer, writes: “Only the chosen souls can find a meeting point even if in a dream, in a game, in fiction or in reality. Relying on the other to reunite can maintain one’s point of view; that glass half full and half empty remains the precious and immeasurable gift of freedom, of the arbitrary and democratic choice of what to do with one’s life”.
And we never forget who we are and where we come from.
To then discover that, although different, we are all brothers and threads of this great skein called life.
By popular demand, it will be repeated on Saturday 26 November at 20.30.
THE PUBLIC WRITES ABOUT THE SHOW:
“When madness and the absurd reveal the depth of our humanity… Thank you! For the mesmerizing music of beauty”.
“Poetic and surreal, a play on words to search and create a plot … We breathe, we fight”
“The sensibilities tangled in the skein to shed light on the human essence”
“I thoroughly enjoyed the show. I was struck by the message linked to the concept of resilience. Congratulations and thank you for making me emotional … not forgetting to keep fighting with the same energy”
“The madness of living between the eternal war between the soul and matter, the spasmodic search for the “keystone” capable of unraveling the skein allowing us to raise the spirit by lowering the ego in a text that is not for everyone but that everyone should see” (Antonella Sturiale)
“Signorsì! It’s the skein”: a balloon of resilience – ItaliaNotizie.it