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REVIEW – ÒLASTRE DI GHIACCIO Ò (ICE SLABS), STORIES OF
WOMEN
ROME - At the "Le Salette" theater ,
a play with a suggestive title
" Slabs of ice " was performed (today, 17 May, the last replica) . The staging
was carried out by the theater company Palt˜ Bleached ,
directed by Stefano Maria Palmitessa .
" Slabs of ice ", a drama written by Francesca and Natale
Barreca , tells
the story of four women who barely know
each other and don't get together
very often, for different reasons, even if in the end they are bound by a strong bond: they are two mothers and two daughters. A summer
meeting reveals the hardness
of the characters, their determination and decision-making
coldness. But
in the end a twist will reveal something more.
Let us leave
the words of Stefano Maria Palmitessa , an exponent of that tendency of the theater particularly attentive to visual aesthetics, the reason for the staging and her direction: ÒThe action in
my last work foresees as an essential component scenographic elements (draperies) which no longer represent the social environment of the play and are no longer
even a decorative backdrop. They must, with mimicry and a veined
recitation of "sense
of grotesque", share the drama,
underline its secret meanings; the Barreca
brothers' text seemed to me
ideal for this purpose. "
In reality, we have
seen with a certain curiosity a theatrical work totally "directed", in which the text - dramaturgically speaking - assumes an almost complementary function within the work as a whole. A deliberately surreal, or metaphysical, work in which the actors (whose faces
are painted, almost humanized masks) are sometimes lifted and moved like dummies
or move like
puppets manipulated by invisible ropes. The acting becomes
almost choreographic, certainly imaginative, very mimic, with the drapŽries that
come alive in turn. The most successful moment, in our opinion, the mimed moment of swimming in the sea!
An atypical show, in short, that can please or not; but certainly
interesting.
The cast consists of Ester
Albano , Mary Fotia , Mattia
Genovesi , Monica Maffei , Eleonora
Micali and Giulia Tuzzi .
The choreographies are by Mara Palmitessa ,
the scenic machines by Silvano
Martorana and the music by Silverio
Scramoncin . The make-up is by the Professional Makeup
Academy of Rome and the body painting is done by Manuela
Giorgino .
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