© Luca Ravaglia
19, 20/05 > 18:00 – 23:00
21, 22, 23/05 > 13:00 – 23:00
3min
no advance bookings
€ 7 (€ 2 on presentation of a Purgatorio ticket)
The founder of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio says he wants to create a theatre that doesn’t convey a message but which has a direct impact on the spectator. “I look for the key themes in obscure materials, and I manipulate emotions through images which communicate themselves in a still movement in space-time.” Nothing could better illustrate the truth of these words than this trilogy, a work of implacable violence and absolute aesthetic force. Its third and last part, Paradiso, is a vision that the spectator enters alone for a few minutes. A black hole where the only possible light is to be found within oneself. For Castellucci, “Paradise” is the most dreadful part of the Divine Comedy, “a form of inverted exclusion”. A space for silent contemplation, in which humanity dissolves and from which all subjectivity has been excluded. First and foremost, that of the artist...
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