by Emma Dante (from Palermo, Italy)
WHO HAS TURNED US ROUND LIKE THIS, SO THAT, WHATEVER
WE DO, WE ALWAYS HAVE THE ASPECT OF ONE WHO LEAVES?
JUST AS THEY WILL TURN, STOP, LINGER, FOR ONE
LAST TIME ON THE LAST HILL, THAT SHOWS THEM ALL
THEIR VALLEY -SO WE LIVE, AND ARE ALWAYS TAKING
LEAVE.
Eighth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Vita Mia is a crazy and desperate
attempt to delay, to the limits of endurance,
the last race before death. Set in the timeless
deep south of Italy, it tells the tale of a mother
and her three sons in a lyrical fantasy in the
last throes of a funeral wake.
Award-winning Sicilian author Emma Dante explores
themes of death, grief and life in this striking
drama. Using a Sicilian dialect, the actors perform
through gestures and movement to tell a story
that breaks through language.
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