* from Agatha by Marguerite Duras
* dramaturgy and direction Lorenzo Ponte
* with Christian La Rosa and Valentina Picello
* set design Davide Signorini
* music Sebastiano Bronzato
* light design Giuliano Almerighi
* Pictures by Luca Del Pia
* Production Teatro Franco parenti

Thanks to Sabrina Sinatti, project tutor - Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi - Lab121 - VIE dei Festival, Rome - Stanze, Milan


There are bonds that nothing can undermine. You are Agatha gives poetic form to an
unrepresentable mystery: the desperate and impossible love between a brother and a
sister. Hidden in this fictional story there is of course the burning autobiography of
Marguerite Duras and the memory of her love for her brother Paulo who died when he was
an adolescent.

In her childhood villa, now abandoned, Agatha meets her brother. She has decided to
leave and interrupt the incestuous relationship that unites them; she has met a man and
will go to live with him. However the impending separation brings back memories, which
are not fading away. Their incestuous and indissoluble relationship is an inverted mirror
that reflects our difficulty in meeting and accepting the freedom of the Other and the pain
of failure.

The stage is empty in order to host a ritual between two bodies that have always looked
for each other without being able to touch. Theater becomes the ideal place to investigate
the heart of the relationship and release that ferocious desire that has long been
frustrated.

*Tu sei Agatha* is the story of a love and the attempt to survive its strength.

October 2018