“The wedding” (Ślub), 1948

“The self is another,” writes Rimbaud; “the self is the face that others have given me,” thinks Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), according to the critical interpretation offered by Jan Kott (1971). In the Polish author’s second play, human ceremony, and in particular the ritual of marriage, are the focus. Conceived as a tragic farce, the play interrogates the ways in which human impotence, left only with the possibility of conflict and symbolic and distorting gestures, takes on the most grotesque manifestations. In a dimension suspended between dream and waking, the story, set by Gombrowicz in the dark night of the Second World War, is brought to our contemporary times, in which indifference, a sense of impotence, and vulgarity once again coexist in everyday life.

Ensemble

Actors: Gabriela Checchia, Pablo Comune, Siyuan Chen, Viola Cicoria, Eleonora Congiu, Olivia Del Sante, Arturo Gerace, Stefano Martelli, Anita Masi, Camilla Rizzo, Aurora Matilde Viola Sempio, Francesca Tomalino, Giulia Tonello, Gabriele Vaschetti, Giorgio Zaccarelli.
Music: Andrea D’Oria
Choreographies:Francesca Tomalino
Dramaturgical adaptation and direction: Leonardo Mancini

Duration: 1 hour

Photographies: Alessio Dell'Anna