CARNE

Text / Fabio Massimo Franceschelli

Direction and interpretation / Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano

Sound and music design / Ivan Talarico

Artistic collaboration / Alessandra Di Lernia

Light design / Omar Scala

Assistant director / Sonia Fiorentini

Graphic design / Davide Abbati

Mixing and mastering / Antonio Maresca - Fourth Mile Studio

 

Production Frosini / Timpano / Kataklisma theater, Gli Scarti

 

Meat, muscles and soft tissue of man and animals. Flesh, earthly transformation of the divine Word. Blood meat, well cooked meat, the pleasures of meat, live meat and dead meat. She and He discuss and quarrel about meat, starting from the animalistic question to explore neighboring but less traveled territories, the sacredness of the meat as an inalienable form of existence, the ethical limits of the commodification of meat, the death that transforms meat into object, the exploitation of meat as the basis of all forms of exploitation that have appeared in history. She is a vegetarian, or perhaps vegan, vaguely antispeciesist. He is an incurable carnivore and accepts the "dialectic of blood" as an existential principle. Comical dialogues alternate with funny monologues. We smile lightly and in laughing we reflect, we question ourselves, we redefine our certainties, and it could not be otherwise because we are made of meat and "meat is born, meat grows, meat rot".

 

 

Carne is above all a meeting between two authorships: that of the playwright who writes a text for us, defined by his own visions, even scenic, and our personal poetics. We have chosen to approach FM Franceschelli by abstracting some recurring images in his dramaturgy and transforming them into main guidelines of the stage-director system. We underlined the textual digressions of the original linear dramaturgical structure, trying to open narratives in the narration. We could say that abstraction and extraction were the first coordinates on which we operated. Our scenic, directorial and interpretive writing was also based on a sound and musical design developed for us during the work by Ivan Talarico, writing in writing, writing for writing, capable of insinuating further narrative suggestions. It seems to us that this meeting could be a "translation" of FM Franceschelli through our bodies and our poetics.

[Frosini / Timpano]

 

Note to the text

Meat, muscles and soft tissue of man and animals. Flesh, earthly transformation of the divine Word. Blood meat, well cooked meat, the pleasures of meat, live meat and dead meat. In a quiet everyday home life - a potentially sit-com situation - two spouses, She and He, discuss and quarrel about meat, starting from the animalistic question to explore neighboring but less traveled areas, the sacredness of meat as an inalienable form of existence, the ethical limits of the commodification of meat, the death that transforms meat into an object, the exploitation of meat as the basis of all forms of exploitation that have appeared in history. She is a vegetarian, or perhaps vegan, vaguely antispeciesist. He is an incurable carnivore and accepts the "dialectic of blood" as an existential principle. Comical dialogues alternate with funny monologues and typical conjugal disagreements; we smile lightly and in laughing we reflect, we question ourselves, we redefine our certainties, and it could not be otherwise because we are made of flesh and "flesh is born, flesh grows, flesh rots".

[Fabio Massimo Franceschelli]