The actress addresses the audience: « Good evening and welcome ».
She turns on a large spotlight that violently illuminates the actor, bare-chested, hands tied, crucified to a small mobile theater with open curtains.
« I suffer but I dream, that’s why I live », says the actor.
« And I seek who I am ».
Thus begins this tragicomic fresco that draws a parallel between « Hamlet », Shakespeare’s tragedy, and the autobiographical evocations of the actor, a blind actor with a phenomenal presence and energy.
From the outset, we are captivated, carried away. Gianfranco Berardi gives himself totally, as if possessed, hallucinated. « Playing with your guts » takes on its full meaning here.
For him, theater is a passion, love and suffering, like the passion of Christ.
Will he die on the cross to save humanity?
A humanity prey to worrying excesses, evolving towards the society of appearances.
« To be or to appear », a crucial question, a contemporary tragedy.
Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik Tok, all these social networks have invaded our mental universe with the omnipresence of the selfie … The illusion of likes, of « friends », of photoshop beauty, of dreamy gastronomic and tourist images … always beautiful, seductive, young, happy, dynamic … to be envied, to be loved …
And suddenly, we are alone, sadness rises …
A deeply moving show, a particularly poignant scene, marked by great tenderness, when the actress and the actor, a couple in the city, are in each other’s arms, reciting the text together, overcome with solitude.
« Preserve our dreams, those that make us feel alive, those that still give meaning to this journey that is ours today. Remember them … always … my love ».
The last words of a dense and powerful text written by Gabriella Casolari.
Until July 21, 2024 at 5:40 p.m. at the Théâtre de l’Atelier Florentin in Avignon
No performance on July 15
Performers: Gabriella Casolari and Gianfranco Berardi
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