An examination of love, legacy and femininity. In a house in which desires, hopes, fears and sentiments are handed down, a mother, a daughter and a grandchild speak across time. An ensemble work for twelve actors who pose themselves the question: what does it mean to choose to live?
A mother, a daughter, a grandchild. Three generations on stage all at once. A single female that, like a spell, is bound to life with the finest of threads. In the midst of chaos, where order is impossible, the three women communicate through time and their words echo through a fault line, in the house in which intentions, hopes and questions are handed down and inherited.
The winner of five UBU Awards – Best play 2023, Best director (Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni), Best foreign text staged by an Italian company, Best actor (Francesco Villano) and best actress under 35 (Petra Valentini) – Anatomia di un suicidio, by the thirty-seven-year-old British Alice Birch is a dizzying examination of love, legacy and creation.
Duration: 180’ including intermission
Contacts
A mother, a daughter, a grandchild. Three generations on stage all at once. A single female that, like a spell, is bound to life with the finest of threads. In the midst of chaos, where order is impossible, the three women communicate through time and their words echo through a fault line, in the house in which intentions, hopes and questions are handed down and inherited.
The winner of five UBU Awards – Best play 2023, Best director (Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni), Best foreign text staged by an Italian company, Best actor (Francesco Villano) and best actress under 35 (Petra Valentini) – Anatomia di un suicidio, by the thirty-seven-year-old British Alice Birch is a dizzying examination of love, legacy and creation.
Duration: 180’ including intermission
Credits
Anatomia di un suicidio
by Alice Birch
a lacasadargilla project
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni
translation Margherita Mauro
sets Marco Rossi
costumes Anna Missaglia
light design Luigi Biondi
sound design Alessandro Ferroni
video design and content curation by Maddalena Parise
dramaturgy of movements Marta Ciappina
assistant director Matteo Finamore
with (in alphabetical order) Caterina Carpio, Marco Cavalcoli, Lorenzo Frediani, Tania Garribba, Fortunato Leccese, Anna Mallamaci, Alice Palazzi, Federica Rosellini, Camilla Semino Favro, Petra Valentini, Francesco Villano
and with Anita Leon Franceschi
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production