by Paolo Trotti
with Filippo Bedeschi, Federica Gelosa, Valentina Mandruzzato, Marialice Tagliavini, Andrea Tonin, Silvia Torri, Giulia Visaggi
assistant director Simona Lenoci
directed by Paolo Trotti
production Linguaggicreativi/Compagnia Asylum Orchestra
The show was conceived after reading Patrick McGrath's novel Asylum. Stella and Edgar are the two protagonists. Doubled, tripled, like their personalities. Yet always the same gestures, the same actions that make up a love story based on sex. Madness is love. Not the madness of the asylums in which the story is set. Not the madness of the loneliness of two bodies seeking each other. But sexual obsession itself. The madness of blind love. Of deception. Of recognition. Of identification. So the focus shifts to obsession. An isolated place. Whether it be a mental hospital or an industrial facility. An isolated love. Whether it be that of Stella and Edgar or anyone else. This is what ASYLUM - Every man kills what he loves is about. Of the impulse that makes us believe what we want to believe. Of self-deception. Of hating in others what we recognize as our own. And also of art. Because even in art, in our work, we have the same impulses as in a catastrophic love story marked by obsession. (Paolo Trotti)
