ALLA CITTA' MORTA

text, direction, interpretation by Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano

external eye of Alessio Pala

 

In the Portrait of a Capital Project, by Antonio Calbi and Fabrizio Arcuri (2014-2016)

 

Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano dressed well, in white, standing, standing in front of two microphones. Their eyes are closed as if they were dead or asleep. They are here here to speak, to send a message to the other Roman dead. Mortacci.

There is talk of rubble.

A man and a woman, two citizens of the eternal city, perhaps alive, perhaps dead, perhaps ghosts, speak from under the rubble of Rome. They read in the newspaper that Italy starts again, and therefore that Rome, the open city, starts again, reopens. They listlessly decide to get out of the rubble, from the torpor of their shabby, forgotten, and perhaps comfortable holes, to make a speech to the dead city.

A final invective on the state of the city. Eternal.