The Raft of the Dead

, which from the 8th to the 10th of the same month will also be performed at the Teatro Duse in Genoa: a post-atomic fable, built on different linguistic registers, which sees four beings - played by,, And and directed by – meet in 2050 Germany, destroyed by environmental catastrophes and nuclear war, and travel to the pristine city of Xanten. At the beginning there is little that is human in these characters, other than their instincts as archaic men, their mortal anguish and their language. Each of them tries to escape fear through a particular linguistic attitude, ending up admitting their fear and accepting the hopeless situation. “The Raft” is pervaded by grotesque moods and a sense of absolution: not the real city of Xanten or as a utopian topos, but the rediscovery of Xanten within themselves by each of the characters constitutes the “positive” conclusion of the piece.Alessio…