KING TARLO (NOT TO DIE)

Who has no place
Makes wanting one his real place
Edmond Jabés

Dedicated to Antonio Neiwiller

The story of King Tarlo, imaginary theatrical mask, develops in the scenic space as if between the walls of a daily and familiar memory. The mother, the brother Fonet, the Gypsies are the heart of his dreamy relations that scan the alternatives and balances of his thoughts and the spectacle, between reality and fiction. King Tarlo, finally transformed into the actor/wooden puppet, a body narrated in movement, fruit of a continuous research, dreams of justice and art. Destined to permanent transformation, vital and mortal at the same time. (Modena, Teatro San Geminiano, November 1993)