Théatre National > Grande Salle
La Fila Indiana
Ascanio Celestini
Italia
IT subtitle FR
Music : Matteo D'Agostino | Technic : Andrea Pesce | Translation : Patrick Bebi
Single file. Everyone knows that they are a number because the person in front of them is a number as well. The numbers follow each other and see each other from behind. Except for number 1, the first in line, whom everyone sees. On television. Whom everyone follows. In single file. At any given time, I see someone walking alongside me.
La fila indiana, or Single File, is a series of stories, both old and new, that have been stitched together. Stories that have been told on the margins of other shows. Stories that have been written quickly after a fire in a nomads' camp or following the sinking of a migrant ship. A few fragments of the real from which other stories are written, told and added to, evening after evening.
Celestini shows himself to be as necessary to Berlusconi's reactionary Italy as Pasolini was in his time. Like his predecessor, he transforms the horror of situations into bits of theatre, recognising in the lives of the most exploited the grandeur of princes and seeing in the ravings of the most deranged the rationality, or more precisely the irrationality, of our society. He is both a storyteller and much more than a storyteller. He is both a singer and much more than a singer. His words mix different registers without ever becoming entangled: realist tales, popular tales, tragic, tender and funny all at once, in a tone that is typically Italian.
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