MATR. – Isabella Giampaolo

To what extent is it really possible to deny pain?

The mother is the one she forms, she measures, she prepares. Everything starts from the mother, she is the measure of all things. Returning to her is like returning to the deepest origin, which may prove necessary to understand the adversities of our lives. Through a path of acceptance and surrender, XX decides to take care of what has been forgotten. Sometimes to resolve an outstanding generational account it is essential to heal a wound. Other times, however, it is better to immerse yourself in it.

The show, which blends gestural theater and words, drama and irony, has as its main idea the questioning of pain and its denial. Humans often react to suffering with denial, rejection, or even forgetfulness, but the wounds never truly leave our bodies. Placing the figure of the mother in the center, MATR. traces a miscarriage to deal with the generational succession of unresolved traumas and unspoken words.

The performance takes shape in a set of photographs punctuated by an omnipresent solitude and consists of a regressus ad uterum as an indispensable rite; a sort of journey to accept and confront the difficulty of feeling alone and lost in the world, as well as to give voice to an inexplicable, innate sense of guilt.

In a dialogue with his mother - statuesque and unattainable - the character of the show faces his most visceral fears within the place where, presumably, we feel most protected during our existence; that same place which is also, after all, the loneliest we know: the maternal womb.

Isabella Giampaolo

• Performer: Isabella Giampaolo
• Set designer: Isabella Giampaolo
• Artistic collaborators: Ylenia Santo, William Caruso
• Lighting designer and operator: Andrea Verdaglia
• Set designer: Antonio Giampaolo
• Voice over: Lorenzo Frediani

Duration: 50'
Age: from 14 years

Prices

Full price
CHF 20.–
CHF 15.–*

OASI and DI
CHF 15.–
CHF 10.–*

Youth < 26, DanzaSia members
CHF 10.–
CHF 7.–*

*MyLugano Card, MyLugano Pass, Io Studio Card, Io Insegno, Ticino Ticket, members of TASI, Performing arts professionals Switzerland, members of MAT, PAN Card

Notes

• Online presale: biglietteria.ch