Note of intent
Investigating the work of the state-owned by taking up Gogol's ideas and trying to bring the model outlined by the Russian author into a contemporary reflection, which however cannot be placed by the spectator in a physically recognizable place: we are not in an office. The environment remains dreamlike, just a desk, there is nothing else to say that we are inside a public office. The atmosphere is rarefied and the character on stage is not fully aware of what he represents for his audience. The author instead is imagining what would happen if Akaky, Gogol's character, finally succeeded in his intent as a ghost. It is said that after his death he continued to wander around Petersburg stealing coats. So what would he do if now he could have all the coats he wants? So many coats on and yet he continues to carry out his work as a state employee: an internal prison even before the social prison in which he finds himself.
The research is completely based on the figure of the contemporary clown and the dramaturgical engine is constituted by the classic incessant and tragic succession of unexpected events, which make a simple signature on the protagonist's sheet of paper an almost impossible mission.
Work accompanied by SOLO BUT NOT ALONE focus Italy, a project curated by Quattrox4, Circo all’inCirca, Dinamico Festival, MagdaClan, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, assignee of the public notice Boarding Pass Plus of the Ministry of Culture.