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Technical note Stage 8x8 m Stage rigging not necessary Total darkening needed Electric power 10 kW Assemblage 4 h Showtime 75 min Genre actor’s theatre QUELLI DI GROCK Via Emanuele Muzio 3 20124 Milano - Italy Tel. +39 02.66988993 Fax +39 02.6690173 www.quellidigrock.it international@quellidigrock.it SYNOPSIS On stage a single actress tells us the story of Alice, a once anorexic girl who is now cured: Alice narrates her story with great exigency and the need to make known her problem as it is too often veiled and unknown. Her story is a story like many others in which an unease, apparently unremarkable, changes, increases and consequently alters and becomes a serious illness. In the play, Alice is surrounded by some key personalities, all parts interpreted by the same actress: a competitive and uninviting mother, a practically absent father, a friend who does not understand, a love never returned and Adele, the caretaker in her building, a warm-hearted and understanding person. Alice brings on stage a sort of diary made of flash-backs, memories, images; the main character’s personality changes, her thoughts become obsessions. Step by step her uneasiness, blossomed as frequently happens silently and underhand, turns into something desperate and evident. The sincerity of the words which Alice pronounces at the end of the play indicates the answer to a desperate need for help: anorexia has to be and can be cured and it is possible thanks to the support from those who love us and are near to us and show us with consciousness a way to start again and stand on our own feet. Almost perfect is a very strong and necessary play, but never tearful or pathetic, which faces the actuality and the harshness of the issue through an evocative and symbolic theatrical language. The unease narrated in this story examines eating disorders but wants to represent a model for analysis and reflections on other mental and psychosomatic disorders of our days, e.g. alcoholism, drug addiction, depression. ph & © Roberto ROGNONI
Festivals and awards “LiFest - Lo spettacolo delle scienze della vita” Gallarate (Italy) 2006 “Segnali” Pavia (Italy) 2004 E dopo più niente. Dopo non provi più niente. Dentro sei vuota, pulita, pura. Sei liscia, scavata, tutto entra ed esce da te con facilità. Entra ed esce. Scivola fuori, non si può fermare. Entra e quando stai per scoppiare ti svuoti. Via tutto quel peso, l’eccesso, quello che non serve, quello che, se resta lì, diventa la parte brutta di te. Invece così stai bene, vuota, leggera, che ti pare di volare. NOTES ON THE PROJECT Quasi perfetta – Almost perfect had its opening in February 2004 and since then it toured many Italian cities before coming to Milan. This was a specific decision of the company: thanks to the tour we finished our study about the audience and its reactions understanding the level of listening, necessity and attention to the subject of anorexia and eating disorders. Since the beginning we were not interested in statistics (we did not even consider them during the making of the show) but it seemed important to us to measure and see if, and how much, talking about such a burning topic, which had already been treated by newspapers and television, would be really urgent and necessary. Our intention is to talk about this problem in an emotional way avoiding the technical and specific language of the nutritionists, searching to stay away from psychoanalytic trivia and disquisition and to let simplicity guide us. The simplicity is a precise symbol of this show: it clearly marks the story, which actually develops like many others with a deviation; it is the story of a normality that converts into pathology, into obsession, into drama. We are the first to be aware that a story like Quasi perfetta is unfortunately very current, especially during the periods of life where changes take place, where self-confidence vacillates and interior values weaken. Furthermore we wanted to create a show suitable to every kind of audience, without outlined limits, in order that an adolescent would be able to identify himself in this restless growing-up and an adult would be able to remember his past, and maybe never forgotten, moments. But above all we wanted to put on stage the intimacy of suffering, which is often nourished by apparent banality: Alice’s story develops in leaps within happy, funny and sad memories that, however, never express moral judgment. To be able to search the person responsible, and maybe find him, is an illusion. Pointing the finger against the examples proposed on television, against a permissive or too strict education, against the dietary models of our time, moves away from the real knot that creates eating disorders: a suppressed pain, an immense hunger for love, of which one could even die. During our tour we presented Quasi perfetta to different audiences: we referred to specialists (psychiatrists and psychologists), to youngsters of secondary schools, to social workers as well as to parents. The reactions and the consents we collected confirm the infinite possibilities offered by theatre because, and we say this without rhetoric, it really opens people’s hearts. We treated this subject with extreme reserve and therefore we chose not to work with an anorexic actress and we avoided debasing such a delicate topic and satisfying certain unhealthy curiosities. We limited ourselves offering only an idea of a thin body because we did not want to exhibit, but to make the problem felt. Quasi perfetta has been a big success wherever it has been presented; it has been, and still is, a very particular experience for us who have been making theatre for many years because we have never received so many words, intimacies, e-mails and embraces from perfect strangers who at the end of the performance wanted to show their appreciation in a different way from clapping their hands. Unfortunately there are also many who report on sick persons or on who they have lost: friends, children, classmates. This show is dedicated to all of them. Valeria Cavalli and Claudio Intropido
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