Teatro di Roma Presents DODSDANSEN, 4/8-4/30

Teatro di Roma presents 'Dodsdansen', by August Strindberg, on stage April 8th - April 30th 2010. Direction by Gabriele Lavia. With Gabriele Lavia and Monica Guerritore.

This play replaces "Light Blue Woman's Handwriting" which, for technical reasons, cannot be staged this season

Production Teatro di Roma, Compagnia Lavia Anagni

Timetable of Shows
Thursday, April 8th at 9.00 (debut)
Friday, April 9th and Saturday, April 10th at 9.00
Sunday, April 11th 5.00

Dance of Death is the impossible translation of August Strindberg's masterpiece Dodsdansen. The English language cannot translate this word. It is true that Dodsdansen means more or less Dance of death however, three words are needed to translate only one. Dodsdansen is a single thought that unites Death and Dance. Death and Dance are two mirrors that encircle you, multiplying all of the reflected images infinitely to spawn a kind of "abyss" where we feel lost, or, as Freud would have said, "disturbed".

Dance, expression of life, Death: the same thing. Dance of death are three distinct words that express and separate three thoughts. DEATH as SPECIFICATION of DANCE. In other words: a dance that leads to death, a deadly dance and not the DEATHDANCE or DANCEDEATH.
A play written with the eruption of a soul filled with pain. In one go.

Strindberg is not a familiar author on the Italian stage, and yet, modern dramaturgy owes him everything. One single act. The action is simplified, intense, classic. Protagonist, antagonist.
This is my fifth time directing a work by Strindberg. However, if I count the two directions of works of Ingmar Bergman, I could say it is my seventh direction since the great Swedish director owed everything to the great Swedish poet.

Was he a Realist? A Naturalist? A Symbolist? An ante-litteram expressionist? Strindberg is all of this and more. He is Strindbergian. To critically label him is to limit his special modernity that makes him modern among the modern. Dodsdansen is "one of a kind", it is something unique. Nobody before him nor after him has had the genius to create it.

A passionate of the Pre-Socratic philosophers for whom "the father of all is Polemos" or the God of War.

A passionate of the Pythagoreans with their "Ten contrary principles "(one- plurality, odd- even, light-darkness, good - bad, right-left, at rest-moving, straight-crooked, square-oblong, bright-dark, male-female) he stages Polemos, the war where there are no winners or losers, as cursed "principle" of Being in the World.

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