Trad. Tatiana Cintia
After winning the European Theatre Award and revealing a huge audience and critic worldwide success, the poetical stream of consciousness on the human condition, the clamorous phenomenon that broke theatre walls and that is now embraced as if it were a rock concert, comes back to Rome for the last time, despite a fine and persistent disapproval, especially in Italy.
The play “La Merda” contemporarily shocked and made the world stand in awe at 2012 Edinburgh Festival, winning the Fringe First Award for Writing Excellence for the script to Cristian Ceresoli, The Stage Award for Acting Excellence for the performance to Silvia Gallerano and the Arches Brick Award for Emerging Art recording sold-outs in 2012 and 2013 Festivals. It had the approval of the audience and the critics from the whole world in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Milan, Glasgow, Berlin, Vilnius, Adelaide and the famous London West End with four consecutive years sold-outs. The Cristian Ceresoli’s “vicious, disturbing and human” script on human condition that has already been translated and produced in various languages has been considered “amazing” by The Times, as is Silvia Gallerano’s performance has been considered “sublime and that makes you feeling moved by chills”, “extraordinary” for The Guardian.
“La Merda” is like a stream of consciousness where the bulimic and revolting public intimacy of a “young” “ugly” woman who tries with obstinacy, passion and courage to gain a place in the “Society of Tights and Freedom” . A chaotic phenomenon that broke theatre’s lines and that is followed as a rock concert. A poetic stream of consciousness on human condition rewarded from its beginning, abroad more than in its national borders, where it continues to collect extraordinary successes. The work of an Italian writer (produced and played with a huge success also in Brazil, Denmark and Greece) performed in English, Italian and coming soon in French by an Italian actress, keeps collecting positive reviews by the most important international medias and a great welcome in every city and country. “La Merda” has as a propulsive spin the try to release itself from sort of a mud or bog, the last products of that cultural genocide Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote about, at the beginning of the consumer society. According to Pasolini, that totalitarianism was stronger than the fascist one, because it was able to gently annihilate us all.
Extraordinary, terrifying The Guardian
Una obra sublime tan brutal El País
Extraordinary, unforgettable The Times
It is an absolute experience. Fifteen minutes of applauses. Not to be missed.La Repubblica
Um ato de revolta e libertade Estadão
