| Year / Length: | 2020, 60’ |
|---|---|
| By and with: | Danio Manfredini |
| Music composed and performed live by: | Francesco Pini |
| Direction assistant: | Vincenzo Del Prete |
| Paintings and mask: | Danio Manfredini |
| Sound design: | Marco Olivieri |
| Lighting design: | Giovanni Garbo |
| Set design: | Rinaldo Rinaldi |
| Set building: | Alan Zinchi, Officine Contesto |
| Video editing: | Ivano Bruner |
| Costumes: | Tina Cucci |
| Technical direction: | Guido Pastorino |
| Production: | La Corte Ospitale |
| With the support of: | Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune |
| In collaboration with: | Armunia Rosignano Marittimo |
Theatre
Danio Manfredini - Nel lago del cor
Description
During a concentration camp evacuation march, a “death march”, a deportee falls down, exhausted. While he is lying there his terrible experiences in the camp pass through his mind. Like a ghost, it melds with the image of the camp which evokes the place he’s left behind him in brush strokes. He returns to a nightmare made up of misery, death, rain, snow, cold and fear... A liberation soldier appears before him, like an angel and takes him by the hand through that hell, with music, song, presence. The deportee returns to that gap in consciousness, to that black hole.
The words of the deportee are excerpts of dialogue, phrases salvaged by memory, sounds in various languages, from a strange Babel, and it is interwoven with songs from the angel which lift human laments to the heavens. The etched out images are: selections, forced labour, gas chambers, crematoriums... watered down forms, black and white, more marked colours act as the driving force behind the movements of the deportee which seem to be pushed on by the wind, rain, shots, silence, before he gives in, unarmed, to his fate.