Federica Rosellini directs her first play at the Piccolo Teatro, with a monologue that she also performs, based on Carne blu, a work that she published in 2021 with a preface by Nadia Terranova and Claudio Longhi and an afterword by Fiona Sansone.
Carne blu is a dark tale, the story of the journey of Orlando, a child born on the Moon with a fish for a heart; Orlando, unlike other children, does not have a normal heart set within his ribcage, but rather a small cloth pocket to the left of his chest, inside which a goldfish named Sunny swims. When Orlando lets his heart swim free, a metamorphosis begins and his body changes, passing through a range of species and genders; he is male and female, bird, and insect. Drawing inspiration from Orlando Furioso by Ariosto and the multiform creature of the same name by Virginia Woolf, Federica Rosellini presents a story of the search of that which has been lost but which cannot be forgotten. Co-directed by Fiona Sansone, an expert in didactics and children’s theatre, Carne blu is a play that provides a violent examination of infancy.
 

The show features a full nude sequence and a scene with explicit sexual language / The show is in Italian with English surtitles by Prescott Studio