Includes:
We Decided to Go Because We Don't Want to Be a Burden to You by Daria Deflorian & Antonio Tagliarini
Edited by Frank Hentschker, Translated by Maria Galante
"We realized that we are a weight to the state, doctors, pharmacists and society. So we decided we'll be off, to spare you further worry. You'll save our four pensions and you'll live better." The play takes place in a suburban apartment where the women have just takentheir "sleeping" pills. A reflection on suicide not as an existential act, but as an extreme political act. Is there an altruistic suicide?
The Healer by Michele Santeramo
Edited by Frank Hentschker, Translated by Allison Eikerenkoetter
A drunken nearly blind old healer, with an intellectual son waiting to surpass him, attempts to heal an injured boxer, a pregnant woman, and a childless couple by bringing them together, making them relate in strange circumstances on a set where doors open and close on mysterious waiting rooms.
The Neighbors by Fausto Paravidino
Edited by Frank Hentschker, Translated by Jane House
He is alone in the apartment. He hears some footsteps coming from the landing. Trying not to make a sound, he looks through the spyhole. He tells Greta when she comes home that he saw the neighbors. How were they? He cannot tell, seeing is not understanding, but he is scared. Why? Who knows? This is a play about our fears, real and imagined, about ourselves and the other, about neighbors near and far, about war.
About the Author: Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini are two performers, writer and directors who, alongside their own personal works, have embarked on an intense and regular collaboration since 2008. Inspired by their common stage performance background they continually explore and research other modes of representation and alternative audience-performer alliances. Their first such collaborative work was Rewind, A Tribute to Café Muller by Pina Bausch created in 2008.
In 2009 they co-wrote, directed and acted in their own production called From A to D and back again, loosely based on Andy Warhol's similarly titled book. Since 2011 they have worked on Progetto Reality ('Project Reality') which has morphed into two works: czeczy/cose ('things'), an installation/performance and Reality, Ubu Award 2012 for Best Italian Actrice.
In November 2013 they presented Ce ne andiamo per non darvi alter preoccupazioni (We decided to go because we don't want to be a burden to you), where they were joined on stage by two other performers Monica Piseddu and Valentino Villa. This play won the Ubu Award 2014 for Best New Italian Dramaturgical Research and the Quebec-Canadian Awards 2016 for the best foreign show.
Their latest project, Il cielo non un fondale ('The Sky Is Not a Backdrop'), where they were joined on stage by two other performers Monica Demuru e Francesco Alberici, was presented in Autumn 2016. From Autumn 2015 Daria and Antonio presented their shows at the Festival d'Automne in Paris. This also marked the beginning of an international tour through France, Swiss, Germany, Canada and Brasil.
Rewind, a Tribute to Café Muller, czeczy/cose, Reality and Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni were published by Titivillus 2014 in one edition called Trilogia dell'invisibile (Trilogy of the Invisible). Il cielo non un fondale was published by Cue Press 2017.
