April 15 – 17, 2009
Baretti Cinema Theater
I Fratellini Theater Company
UNDER MY SKIN
by Massimo Bavastro
Directed by Daniele de Plano
With Antonio Merone and Francesco Stella
A couple's final hour in a bed that is now a boxing ring, now a raft for shipwrecked sailors, now a bed for the most desperate caresses. A final hour spent searching for each other to ensure it isn't the last.
The last time to make love to ensure that it is not the last time we make love.
Getting lost and finding yourself again and again in the schizophrenic drift of the story's ending.
But recriminations are always lurking; words lose their measure and eventually show their limits.
The text of Massimo Bavastro gives life to an intense show in which we can read the contradictions of an exasperated passion that leaves no respite, especially due to the importance of the psychological-reflective exchange between the two protagonists.
If the author fixed the intense encounter of a pair of lovers in search of a now lost balance, director de Plano moved the encounter into the difficult territories of male love.
The two lovers who have reached the final stop of their difficult relationship are Francesco Stella and Antonio Merone, who stars in Stefano Tummolini's film Un altro pianeta, the only Italian film in competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the 2008 Queer Lion award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival (Giornata degli autori).
A courageous show, a love story told on the day everything ends, and everything is rendered with skillful violence and extreme sweetness.
The final hour of a pair of lovers, the final hand-to-hand encounter between two people who have shared a lifetime, the final dialogue of passion and conflict, the final act of desperate love...
Under My Skin examines up close, very closely, against the backdrop of a bed, all these dynamics that sooner or later we can't escape. And the show, beautiful, involves two men, but is universal. Unmissable. – The Republic
www.myspace.com/undermyskinrm
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TURIN – Baretti Cinema Theater
April 15 – 17, 2009
Via Baretti 4 – 10125 Turin – Tel. and fax +39 011 655 187
[email protected]; www.cineteatrobaretti.it.
Entrance
All shows start at 9:00 PM.
Full €8.00 – Reduced (over 60, under 25) €6.00
8-show season ticket of your choice €40
Baretti is participating in the initiative promoted by the City of Turin, which offers special admission prices to PASS 60 pass holders.
Reservations
Reservations are accepted via email and telephone.
Reserved tickets can be picked up on the evening of the performance up to 15 minutes before the start time. After this time, the reservation will no longer be valid.
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MILAN – PIM Scenic Space
From October 17th to 20th 2008
Via Tertulliano, 68 – 20137 Milan
tel. 02.54102612
[email protected]
www.pimspazioscenico.it
Disabled access: yes
Show times: 9:00 pm
Tickets: full price 13.00 euros, reduced price 10 euros
Membership card: 2.00 euros, citizen producer 5.00 euros