Accademia degli Artefatti

ONE DAY finalmente vivere servirà a qualcosa

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from november 29 at 17.00 to november 30 at 17.00

PALLADIUM world prèmiere

After a period of blurred and barely pronounced voices, with theatres that are little more than empty and games that are more human than stage-like, we feel the time has come to make more noise, take up more space, and to play with the redundancy of reality without running away from it.
ONE DAY - Living will finally mean something is not an event, but rather a show about events. It lasts 24 hours, has no start and no end. The direct reference is to the classic nature of tragedy and epic poems more than the development of the contemporary performance. It is a celebration, an opportunity for performance and audience to meet where both are forced to understand one another, even if it should prove gruelling at times. It is a musical which is ashamed to be a musical. As it unfolds it mixes genres, reproduces them, parodies and rejects them. It is based around constant changes to the schedule, in a hotchpotch that mixes reality and fiction: the show never overlaps with itself (it contradicts itself) and develops as its meaning is turned on its head.
ONE DAY aims to be a time and a place which house theatre in a period when theatre is struggling to be housed. It is a performance about the way performances are staged, about the sense of staging performances or not. A performance for the audience, about the audience and of the audience. It is a performance featuring exceptions. Living will finally mean something is an indication of aesthetics and work which grasps the recent trend for reproducing, filming and photographing every event and place; it tells us of our inability to coincide with the moment in which we live, the “here and now”; it tells us of the impossibility to be there completely, of always being too late or too early.
ONE DAY is a performance that takes itself to the brink and even foregoes the illusion of beauty. A pornographic performance against pornography; an exciting story against excitement and against unease. A story about the future. Or about none of the above, but it doesn’t matter.

Fabrizio Arcuri

L’Accademia degli Artefatti was founded in the 90s with the aim of organising and promoting theatrical culture. Its work is based on visual art and performance mixing Fabrizio Arcuri, artistic director has collaborated with Peter Stein, Luca Ronconi, Sandro Lombardi, Carlo Quartucci, Claude Coldy, Masaki Iwana, Vim Vandekeibus.