di Angelo Colosimo
regia Roberto Turchetta
produzione Wobinda
Palazzo Reale – Cortile delle carrozze
1 luglio 2017
ore 22.00
durata 1h e 5min
Angelo Colosimo deals once more with the literary archetype of family, this time in a perspective that considers “n’drangheta” (a form of organised crime from Calabria, south of Italy). A family, together with relatives of relatives, meets out in the countryside to slay a pig. It is a custom and necessary ritual that is linked to the most ancient farming tradition, a beastly and feral one: the killing of the “pùarcu” is needed to feed hungry mouths and for sustenance.
The image portrayed well represents an idea of the power relations based on a branching model, in which every member has a precise role to comply. This tends to keep things as they are. With a slight stretch in meaning, revenge is the only element allowing some sort of change. The rules are clear: who is at fault, must pay. Nonetheless, even those that aren’t, might still not be immune to guilt.
Simu e Pùarcu is the last monologue of a trilogy that tells of family and childhood threatened by the most brutal and heinous of sentiments.
