Death to Venice by Liv Ferracchiati debuts at the Spoleto Festival

Yet another debut at the Spoleto Festival, this time for the Theatre category. from friday 12 to Sunday, July 14 (at 20, at 21:30, at 15) to San Simone premieres La morte to Venezia by director Liv Ferracchiati, on stage as Gustav Von Aschenbach joined by dancer Alice Raffaelli, playing Tadzio. Ferracchiati writes in the director's notes, " This is not a theatrical adaptation of Thomas Mann's La Morte to Venezia, but a scenic journey freely inspired by the novel that combines three different languages: word, dance and video. The encounter to Venice between Aschenbach and Tadzio remains, death remains. Two strangers who experience what Mann summarizes thus, "Nothing exists that is more singular, more scabrous, than the relationship between people who know each other only through a glance." The attempt is to bring these two characters to closer to us and, at the same time, to tell the story of the fatigue of writing and how this fatigue, in the end, is torn apart from rare, beautiful and terrible moments made up of encounters with other human beings. Ironically, third character is the Word, which first seeks a harmony in a crystallized form and then breaks free, materializes, ignites, and finds its own whimsical form, however ridiculous and vain in the face of the unaccountable."‍

Italian author and director, Liv Ferracchiati debuted in 2016 with her first writing and directing, Todi is to small town in the center of Italy. In 2015, she founded the theater company The Baby Walk and began to writing and directing the Identity Trilogy, exploring the theme of gender structuring: Peter Pan looks under the skirts (Chapter I, 2015), a show awarded the National Young Theater Realities Prize, Stabat Mater (Chapter II, 2017) with which she won the Hystrio Nuove scritture di Scena 2017 Prize, Un eschimese in Amazzonia (Chapter III, 2017), winner of the 2017 Premio Scenario. In 2017, Antonio Latella selected three of his works at the Theatre Biennale. He is among the selected authors to participating in the special edition École des Maîtres 2020, dedicated to European playwrights. He is currently an associate artist at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, for which he created Hedda. Gabler. Like a Loaded Gun (2022) from Ibsen and How Things Reflected in Water Quake (2024), based on Chekhov's The Seagull . In 2021 Marsilio Editori published his fiction debut, Sarà solo la fine del mondo. With the production of Marche Teatro, CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Teatro Metastasio di Prato, he staged in 2022 A Science Fiction Play _quante ne sanno i trichechi.

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