Based on the works of Giuseppe Montesano, Toni Servillo leads the audience on a journey in three stages that is an antidote to the stagnation of thought, the non-life that tends to swallow us up, a way to rediscover the words that an actor expresses with their entire body and mind, to nourish their and our interiority.
Tre modi per non morire offers a theatrical journey à rebours conducted by Toni Servillo through three moments in which a number of poets taught us to seek out life.
Written by Giuseppe Montesano, the piece identifies in Charles Baudelaire, Dante, and the Greek classics the writers who put into practice and continue to teach us the art of not dying. The evening opens with the verses of Baudelaire who, in Monsieur Baudelaire, quando finirà la notte?, explains how beauty fights depression and injustice. It then continues with Le voci di Dante, where the celebrated characters from the Comedy appear to us, bound together by a story that sheds light on them from the present. The final point of arrival is Il Fuoco Sapiente by the Greek poets, in which poetry and philosophy stimulate a vision that is capable of imagining the future.
The theatre of Tre modi per non morire is a way to rediscover those words that an actor says with their entire body and mind to nourish their and our interiority. We are disturbed and frightened, and we all feel that we lack something that we desperately need; we lack love, we lack life. And so? And so, there is nothing left but to try and be alive.
Duration: 90’ without intermission
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Tre modi per non morire offers a theatrical journey à rebours conducted by Toni Servillo through three moments in which a number of poets taught us to seek out life.
Written by Giuseppe Montesano, the piece identifies in Charles Baudelaire, Dante, and the Greek classics the writers who put into practice and continue to teach us the art of not dying. The evening opens with the verses of Baudelaire who, in Monsieur Baudelaire, quando finirà la notte?, explains how beauty fights depression and injustice. It then continues with Le voci di Dante, where the celebrated characters from the Comedy appear to us, bound together by a story that sheds light on them from the present. The final point of arrival is Il Fuoco Sapiente by the Greek poets, in which poetry and philosophy stimulate a vision that is capable of imagining the future.
The theatre of Tre modi per non morire is a way to rediscover those words that an actor says with their entire body and mind to nourish their and our interiority. We are disturbed and frightened, and we all feel that we lack something that we desperately need; we lack love, we lack life. And so? And so, there is nothing left but to try and be alive.
Duration: 90’ without intermission
Credits
Tre modi per non morire
Baudelaire, Dante, i Greci
by Giuseppe Montesano
with Toni Servillo
lighting Claudio De Pace
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
with thanks to Agenzia Teatri