Tetramorphosys

From 18/5/2014 To 8/6/2014

Acquasparta (TR) - Tetramorphosys

Stage play in four scenes and an epilogue

Francesco Severini

Characters and interpreters

The Artist (Thomas Bassetti) - The Earth (Cristina Liti)

The Water (Beatrice Beltrani) - The Air (Chiara Andreucci)

The Fire (Francesco Bigerna) - The Muse , Quintessence (Federica Ficola)

Lyrics: Francesco Severini, Antonella Orlacchio

Music: Francesco Severini

Scenes: Francesco Severini and all the actors

Costumes: Francesco Severini - Tailoring: Ilaria Carletto

Video and computer graphics: Claudio Paris

Lights and Sound: Musicalsound Ludovico Ciribuco - Lighting technician: Michael Bassetti

Photograph: Stephen Casciotta

Directed by: Francesco Severini

A production in collaboration with Bottegart

First performance: Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 21:30

Acquasparta - House of Culture "Matthew of Aquasparta"

The performance will be repeated Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 21:30

as part of the festival "The Renaissance in Acquasparta" in the square F.Cesi

The theater piece titled "Tetramorphosys", which is born and takes its name from the homonymous painting work of Francesco Severini in what is now a room in your home picta Acquasparta, finds its most accomplished prosaic paraphrase in the assumptions and poetic video (already posted on YouTube ). "A room of wonders, a small Wunderkammer, a lush intimate but non-private dwelling animals and secrets, metaphors and analogies multiform, philosophical theories and colors polished, religious assumptions and extensions playful. From the theory of the four elements (water, air, earth, fire) to scan the work of alchemy, whose four phases - blackness, whiteness, and citrinitas rubedo - run through the stages of the entire human experience. To get to the essence, creating pure, through a full, conscious inner transformation. "

Four scenes, plus an epilogue. Are the characters. The Artist - but also the Magician or Magician of the Tarot - or the scenic alter ego of the author; Elements, each in its own projection figural female ( Earth The Water, The Air) and male (Fire); finally Quintessence that, in the guise of a woman, it also appears in the epilogue in the guise of Consciousness, however, manifesting itself in the narrative through fleeting forays into the shoes of the Muse Artist. The representation is played, in fact, the repetition in some magical way of number four, to underlie the stages of a real transformation of the main character (tetra / MorphoSys, in fact) in order to alchemical stages already mentioned, in turn related to the fourfold Pythagoras (the tetraktys) as well as the phases of the day: four are in fact the moments in which the various scenes unfold dividing the space-time (the blackness of the night, the morning of the 'albedo, the first of citrinitas afternoon, the sunset or the rubedo). The transformation, the more real and tangible, is the one that leads the artist through some landings essential, parallel phases of art and life: the most painful introspection (the blackness), the light of a revival of Do (l ' albedo), the quest for harmony (the citrinitas), and finally the conquest of inner fire (the rubedo). The Philosopher's Stone and the alchemical gold are nothing but offshoots of a tangible yearning for knowledge. That is the whole persuasive and vibrating in Love, reached an outcome and reason for Awareness.

The use of multimedia - video projection at the beginning of each scene, the "effects" of the cards of the Major Arcana launched by the characters, the final scene in which the artist holds forth with "himself" physically present in the video - the underlying nature the same dream as reality figural "technically" made in its physical dimension.

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2vrI_UwVp0