A performance played and directed by

Teatrino Giullare

Original music by Arthur Annecchino executed live by the author.

Scene and Artificial Dancers by Cicuska


Teatrino Giullare Production with the support of

COMUNE DI BOLOGNA, PROVINCIA DI BOLOGNA, REGIONE EMILIA-ROMAGNA.

 

For the first time in Italy a performance on the unfinished text that the French author has dedicated to Coco Chanel.

Gabrielle Chanel, Coco, fascination and temperament, personality that has been able with its revolutionary work to change the concept of feminine becoming a fundamental figure of the popular culture of XX the century, in opposition to the domestic servant Consuelo, in the last moments of life A pièce centralized on solitude, one of the main topics of Koltès, developed with humour and dialectic force. Coco with a last breath of energy is confronted with its domestic servant in a dialogue suspended between sky and earth, in a production of great suggestion based on the expressive role of the light, shadow, of the objects of the room that take “mysteriously” life. Three various scenes different for atmosphere and techniques in which the feminine presences are revealed in amazing way: the game of mirrors between the charactrers, the raising bed of Coco, apparitions and disappearances.

 

The show can be performed also in not conventional and not teatrical spaces.

 

Teatrino Giullare has decided to build the show starting from images, from the strength of vision and from the gaze, with an effective network of lights and shadows that are projected on a crucial scene through attention to detail, the vibration of silences. And while melancholy notes played by a piano at the end of the scene break the silence and the initial expectations, we see the silhouette look of Coco and his ever-present cigarette in hand. Is already defined its reliable personality, his elegance, his taste unequivocal. It is finely outlined in dialogues with Consuelo, suspended and visionary vaguely, punctuated by two very different voices, one sweet and mellifluous, the other rough, both belonging to the same wonderful actress.
Francesca Sacco, Aprileonline.
 
An extraordinary interpreter, give voice to both women, to Coco hoarse, angry, cynical and irreverent to Consuelo. But the two voices - this is the invention of the show - playing hide and seek, never leave guess their origin. Chanel is a shadow, then a dummy, then a mask on a body lying under the sheets of the last bed. The picture of the scene carries the memory of a studio, but made bleak and bare, because of dead flowers, and the busts of the dummies in disarray. The lights, yellow, dim, domestic, mournful, interrupt the darkness, and sometimes accompany directly, as video, the pace of dialogue and music.
Carlo Titomanlio, PisaNotizie