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carnezzeria - emma dante - scenography project
Year
2010
Location
Palermo, Italy
Description
The materials chosen are a
transposition of the main metaphor of the play, human’s fragility in front of life’s challanges. Therefore, the
box - the decor of the drama - is
made out of fragile triangles (white fabric between white painted wooden frames) and manipulated by iron cables, all inside a strong metal structure - the outside world.
The triangular structure forms a
box that becomes a closed place,
to represent the idea of the house
from which you can’t get out. A big
coloured plastic ball, the instrument
of the actors. At the end of this part,
all of a sudden, the grandmother
dies. At this point, the box “explodes”
with a sound of broken glass, and,
releasing the structural strings, the
triangles separate. -> the box opens
for the symbolic death.
The broken box means a broken world, a
world in which a drama has just taken place.
A new story, a new destiny, is revealed. The cross, the throne, the lights and the angel
statue create the tense atmoshpere. In the
end, the drama intensifies with the last
scene of the dying pregnant bride. Concomitantly with the last breaths of the
girl, the box starts to shake as if it was shattered by an earthquake. Some of the triangles of the structure fall on the stage
with intense noise in the moment that she
falls into eternal sleep.
The third act reveals a completely
shattered world of emptiness and
sadness - the drama of a mother
that lost her 3 sons. The triangles are
mostly fallen, but vertically, forming
a screen for the dead sons that walk
behind them - only their shadows
become visible by the public. In the
end, when the mother has a moment
of consciousness and realises that
her sons are dead, all the triangles
fall horizontally on the stage.