Florian Zeller investigates with extreme acuteness the theme of maternal love and the possible pathological consequences to which it can lead. The departure of her son, now an adult, is experienced by the woman as a real betrayal, as abandonment of the nest, to which is added a decline in conjugal love that has been underway for some time. The initial black comedy tone lets out more than a smile, due to the situations described and the mechanism of repetitions that Zeller establishes in the text, it slowly transforms into a ruthless drama that seems to be neither a real dream nor the banal reality of the present , but a hypnotic and cruel vertigo from which waking up is impossible. Compagnia Moliere / Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale / Accademia Perduta Romagna Teatri present LA MADRE in Puglia, with Lunetta Savino and with Andrea Renzi, Niccolò Ferrero, Chiarastella Sorrentino, directed by Marcello Cotugno.
Anna’s world is a place where she no longer recognizes herself, isolated by a family ménage that has expelled her. But doesn’t the responsibility for this loneliness also lie in having given up on her life? Isn’t giving up dreams, hopes and desires solely to dedicate oneself to one’s only son on whom one can pour out frustrations, remorse and ideals of love a path that dangerously inclines towards desperation? Anna, her mother, is obsessed with a multiple reality, a sort of multiverse of the mind, in which realities are doubled, creating an illusion of constant authenticity in all narrative levels. But can one imagine an awakening from Anna’s memories? In her mother’s mind, dream sequences and hyper-realistic situations pile up.
From tomorrow Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st in Puglia, for the theater seasons of the Municipalities of Lecce, Corato and Bari in collaboration with the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese: Lunetta SAVINO with La Madre.
Tuesday 16th at 9pm at Lecce-Teatro Apollo, 17th at 8.30pm at Corato-Teatro Comunale (sold out), and then from Thursday 18th (7.30pm), 19th and 20th at 9pm and Sunday 21st in Bari (6.00pm) at Piccinni Theatre.
In Bari for the DAMS PROJECT – A(P)POINTS OF VIEW, Thursday 18 April at 1.00 pm Room C – Palazzo Ateneo the protagonist will be at the center of a meeting with the students.
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