Gruesome Beauty

Première  20 April 2017
Running time for each language version 1 hour.

Director Matjaž Farič
Author of adaptation Žanina Mirčevska
Translator into Italian Laura Sgubin
Dramaturg Staša Bračič
Set designer Ana Rahela Klopčič
Costume designer Sanja Grcič
Selection of music Matjaž Farič
Visual artist Matjaž Farič
Assistant costume designer Lucija Kušar
Assistant dramaturg Sandi Jesenik
Translator during the working process Elena Husu

Cast
Her, Tiziana, Rita Maruša Majer
Him Primož Forte
Emilio, Enzo Tadej Pišek
(Slovenian cast)

Lei, Tiziana, Rita Lara Komar
Lui Riccardo Maranzana
Emilio, Enzo Filippo Borghi
(Italian cast)
 

Two permanent theatres speak together of man being challenged by the temptation of a great passion; an unusual form of production with a double cast and a double language version through which the audience experiences the emotions of the same text from two different perspectives: all this is Gruesome Beauty. The concept of dramatic images was based on a free interpretation of the adventures, notes and the lives of the Trieste alpinists Emilio Comici, Enzo Cozzolini and Tiziana Weiss. It strove to be more faithful to their ideals rather than the biographical data. The bridge between the poetic dimension of those ideals and the reality of the fatal passion was created by the director and choreographer Matjaž Farič who offers an emotionally charged reading also through the actors' physical expression. Truth and fiction are intertwining through the thoughts, stories and words of Emilio, Enzo, Tiziana and Rita, together with the author's character, whereas on the other side is the impressive, fascinating and dangerous Mountain. The Mountain is in fact the true protagonist of "gruesome beauty"; it is that mysterious power that lures to the utmost edge of its physical abilities.

From the top of the mountain we can see the world from above; everything seems small and has no weight anymore. What matters only is people, their existence and their essence. Those are the relations, the power and the passion for beauty. (...) The production is pure, the stage is bare, the focus is on the actors and the screen projections. We feel the actors in their corporeality with which they occupy the stage.

Ivana Zajc, Primorski dnevnik, 23 April 2017