There is music, pressing. There are images, movements, words, strong, at times piercing, to tell a form of evil interpreted by innocence. There are actors, differently abled and strongly protagonists, in the theatrical show Food Courtthe work of the award-winning Australian formation Back to Back Theatre. The company, for the first time in Italy, is the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2024 Theatre Biennale. In almost forty years of activity, Back to Back Theatre he made some disability an artistic investigation tool.
Founded in 1987 by a group of differently abled artists, The company has brought over thirty titles to theatres around the worldquestioning what is perceived as normality. Because diversity, free from prejudice, “It is a bearer of knowledge amplification. Art is a bridge between oneself and the world – explain the curators of the Festival, justifying the Golden Lion – especially when the body is in difficulty … Back to Back Theatre thus creates a model of identity”.
The show brought to Venicewhere sexuality, bullying, body shaming are touched upon in a touching way, It was made in 2008and since then it has been repeated “Bringing our presence around the world and here for all of you”. Food Court It is a work born from a conversation during a lunch, then brought to the rehearsal room where ideas and proposals were born on this basis. To arrive at telling, in minimal terms, the humiliation of a woman. She is accompanied, live, by the music by the Australian music band The Necks. A Golden Lion source of joy, emotion, enthusiasm, which the artistic director of the company, Bruce Gladwin, defined as “An important recognition, because winning an award means starting over, and this is extraordinary for us”.
