THere are a strong death in the Vibes to the setting of Romeo Castellucci’s Site Specific Production to Venice Biennale Teatro. Show the Italian’s-director and his company in his own Island – long, lizard, as a colony. The audience tablets from a comb and carton across the water to arrive at the building that once a lazaretto – a hospital for the disease sick. Associations with fatal infection and social loneliness are infrigidly resounding the Covi Pandemic. However, to err in this disturbing promenade part, which turn cold in ways than one.
The building inside stripped of the skin and a brick and a snare bare and low electronic complaints sound by corridors and disquring to close the dark. Windows are mounted as an industry and ignoring an interior activity. Further, there are a bags lying on the empty room in the empty, but alive and the bodies inside.
The suggestion is that the torture of the chamber is taken to place or make it imminently. There is a deeper alarm to dare to dare in the haccouncounted, room, as a space, where you imagine, more people throw anterior in the body bags.
The full of the show manifests in a bizarre and baroque scene of ritualized but unexplained tyranny, enacted through choreographed movement by an eight-strong cast (Luca Nava, Sergio Scarlepella, Laura Pante, vito Ancona, Jacopo Franceschet, Marco Gagliardi, Vittorio Tommasi, Michela Valerius).
Total nigredo down in the central room filled with thunderstorm sound barrels to us (brightly, terlifyingly, designed by Scott and Oliver Gibbons). It is a restricted restraint that discomfiting feeling that could turn really dangerous in this rumbling darkness.
Creepy images emerge of smoke from a wings of living – a godly or extraterrestrial or symbol of totalitarian alarm remember third Reich? – the latest-moving group of miners carrying pickaxes and body unzipped a bag, naked blood white, as a pale as death, who makes some of the choir of death.
There are no explanation for any people and their worship, such as rituals represent. The story is all the more to their opacity. Winged and miners seem to be a terrible invisible force.
It’s a gnomic work but full of woes. The building looks neutral and unremarkable once you are outside again but in the threat remains with you to mount the ship to the continent, to light and safety.