TESTI RIFLESSI. Dramaturgy & Devices
Saturday 20 July at 6:45 p.m. | Public Park – Zafferana Etnea
Teatri Riflessi 9: Artist Residencies is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by the European Union.
The project is realised in partnership with gARTen – festival di teatro nel parco – Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro (Switzerland)
È solo un lungo tramonto
Jacopo Giacomoni
Awarded with the Franco Quadri mention (Riccione Prize 2023), ‘È solo un lungo tramonto | Just a long sunset’ is an innovative theatrical piece produced through the reiteration and mechanical disintegration of dialogues occurred between the author and his father, affected by Alzheimer’s. Dictating such dialogues to the computer and re-dictating the transcripts allowed the text to mimic the same losses and repetitions to which his memory was exposed, creating an intense relation with time and forgetfulness. The result is the haunting presence of the past in an out-of-joint present: a gradual disintegration of the text into silence. There is no trace of tension, no tragedy; it is just a long sunset.
Awarded with the Franco Quadri mention (Riccione Prize 2023), ‘È solo un lungo tramonto | Just a long sunset’ is an innovative theatrical piece produced through the reiteration and mechanical disintegration of dialogues occurred between the author and his father, affected by Alzheimer’s. Dictating such dialogues to the computer and re-dictating the transcripts allowed the text to mimic the same losses and repetitions to which his memory was exposed, creating an intense relation with time and forgetfulness. The result is the haunting presence of the past in an out-of-joint present: a gradual disintegration of the text into silence. There is no trace of tension, no tragedy; it is just a long sunset.
Jacopo Giacomoni (Trento, 1987) graduated in Philosophy with a thesis on the existence of fictional characters. He works as a playwright and performer. In 2023, he won the special mention Franco Quadri (Riccione Prize). He carries on structuralist research on dramaturgy, designing performative devices to welcome audience participation and chance. In his recent works, he’s created dramaturgical parasites that attack existing textual organisms, a theatrical device for electing humanity’s greatest tragedy, a theatrical office for the celebration of a funeral on stage, and a theatrical hauntology experiment on the loss of his father’s memory. As a performer, he merges his path as an actor with that of a saxophonist in an ongoing exploration of free improvisation and non-idiomatic sounds.