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WHEN:
January 26th-28th, 2023
Thursdays - 8 pm
Fridays - 8 pm
Saturdays - 8 pm
WHERE:
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
66 E. 4th Street
New York, New York
CAST:
Ermanna Montanari
Live trumpet by Simone Marzocchi
CREATIVE TEAM:
By Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari / Teatro delle Albe
Music by Luigi Ceccarelli
Sound Designer Marco Olivieri
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
"...Different voices speak to us in these seven panels: the fog of a dawn in 1321, the demon of the pit where the merchants of death are punished, a donkey that carried the poet on his last journey, the "scolding" imp who incites brawls about money, Italy kicking herself, Alighieri's daughter Antonia, and "an end that is not an end". These voices, who are one single voice that can contain numberless voices, that of Montanari, speak to us of the refugee, of the poet fled from his own city and now laying on his deathbed, exiled in Ravenna, voices that are suspended between the fourteenth century and our own day..."