Mop Shower Walls With Shark Mop

Wood Theatre and Officinae Hephaestus

, in collaboration with Eruptions Festival
Ship of Fools
directing and dramaturgy: Luigi Imperato and Silvana Pirone
with: Anna Palomba, Silvana Pirone, Veneruso Salvatore, Domenico Santo
Director's Notes

Ship of Fools welcomes foreign-wrecks, stories of outrages, of humanity repudiated. Anime survivors themselves, nameless characters in a nameless: fragments of lives belonged to some, but perhaps now rejected, as they refuse old objects that no longer recognize and denounce a part of himself. That part is not easy and certainly not show look. Our crazy

aspire to wander in our minds and in our skin, have to put in front of a doubt, a distorted mirror that asks questions and who can not give answers. They themselves live in constant doubt of the reality that is beyond them at times hesitant in believing in themselves: they are surprised to pretend, to play dual roles or feel involuntary. They are alone, yet united by their common loneliness, hold hands, hug each other in a common embrace of evil, but are also the war, hate, love and hope. Are men. There is a language to which they belong and a level of comedy that is steeped in their language is one with the deformation of their bodies. The comedian does not want be a solution but a limen beyond which it would be possible to go and you will cross instead aware of the abyss. Our attention is focused on insanity as a mental state, but on stage ritualization of exile which turns slowly in the ritual of remembrance and despair.
Luigi Imperato, Silvana Pirone

"... it is the Ship of Fools, a strange drunken row boat along the rivers Rhine and Flemish rivers ... Can you believe that, in some major cities, transit sites and markets, the insane were conducted by merchants and sailors in very substantial number, and there abandoned, thus purifying their presence in the city originated. It 'may happen that these sites of "counter-pilgrimage" is confused with the foolish ones where the contrary were conducted as pilgrims. They met as a concern to heal and to exclude, to be contained in the sacred space of a miracle ... " Michel Foucault, History of Madness in the Classical