What’s on stage
Typically Russian brush strokes draw the precarious social condition of the state employee and in the distance we can see a very current problematicity. The circus language tries to tell the ruthless mechanisms of the Petersburg bureaucracy of the mid-nineteenth century and generates comic short circuits, bizarre acrobatics and brief references to the point of view of the coat.
In the work of reworking the story of Gogol Akaky Akakievich, the protagonist has no identity, he is a common employee and therefore all three artists on stage play the protagonist. Together with him the coats, there are no other characters on stage, only the story of the protagonist in the desperate search for his own social symbol.
Inside the folds of the show we find hidden anxieties, desires, desires for redemption, commercial needs created fictitiously, in a rereading of Gogol through the contemporary circus.
In detail
DURATION: 50 minutes
GENRE: contemporary circus with live music, object manipulation, dance, free body and trapeze/aerial acrobatics, genre theater.
AUDIENCE: suitable for all ages from 7 years old
ON STAGE: Davide Perissutti, Irene Giacomello, Marco Floran
LIGHTING DESIGN: Davide Perissutti
LIVE MUSIC: Marco Floran
CHOREOGRAPHY: Irene Giacomello
COSTUMES: Paula Spitale
SET DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION: Circo all'inCirca