coreografia Adriano Bolognino
con Giuliana Bonaffini, Rosaria Di Maro, Ginevra Gioli
Ines Giorgiutti, Gaia Mondini, Giulia Orlando, Margherita Petrosino
Cristina Roggerini, Sara Schiavo, Rebeca Zucchegni
Duration 60 min.
‘To act? What an awful word! If it were only a matter of acting, I feel that I have never known how to act – and I never will! Those poor women from my plays have entered my heart and mind so deeply, that while I strive to make others understand them as best as I can, as if I were trying to comfort them… it is them who, little by little, have ended up comforting me! How – and why, and since when – this affectionate, inexplicable and undeniable “exchange” between those women and me happened… would be too long, and even too difficult to tell with precision. The fact remains that, while everyone distrusts women, I get along with them perfectly well! I don’t care if they’ve lied, if they’ve betrayed; if they’ve sinned, or were born wicked – so long as I feel that they have cried, have suffered, whether for lying, or betraying, or loving… I stand with them, and I probe their souls not out of some obsession with suffering, but because feminine sorrow is deeper and more detailed – it is sweeter and more complete than the sorrow granted by men!’ Eleonora Duse
The work is divided in two parts, and this division follows Duse’s journey toward an ever more conscious art. The first part ‘exquisitely artificial’, and a final Duse, now old, ‘pure immaculate light’. La Duse. Nessuna opera is a ‘non-work’, a hymn to women. Adriano Bolognino writes: ‘A heartfelt thanks to the book by Mirella Schino, Eleonora Duse – Stories and Images of a Theatrical Revolution, for telling the story of this extraordinary woman transcending the male influences that blurred her legacy, and freeing her from the clichés that obscure female genius. It was the undeniable starting point for all the research.’