durata: 1h 20m | Paese: Italia | Lingue: italiana
Teatro Nuovo – 08/06/2012, 21:30 – 09/06/2012, 21:30 – 10/06/2012, 21:45
Produzione Fondazione Campania dei Festival-Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
In coproduzione con Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo
Prima assoluta
The Hygiene of the Assassin is the first novel by the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb, published in 1992 and which was immediately a literary success.
The Nobel Prize winner for literature Prétextat Tach is struck by the extremely rare “syndrome of Elzenveiverplatz” (a name invented by the author), which is a cancer of the cartilage leaving him two months to live. Once the news gets around, the international press rushes to interview the writer who has lived for many years in total isolation.
Tach’s cutting and scathing dialectics – cynical and provocative – chases most of the journalists away, apart from a female journalist, who is competes at Tach’s same level: by evoking his past, the interviewer questions Tach about his only novel entitled The hygiene of the Assassin which was presumably autobiographical and which was left unfinished.
According to the director, Alessandro Maggi, «the performance is a true battle of words, a sort of arena in which the characters attack each other with their scathing remarks; a progressive removal of all external vests to reveal the underlying psychology and intelligence and most importantly, that playful and joyous art form of writing».
