In the exhibition galleries, there is but one language: laughter.
The performers laugh to convey joy, euphoria and emotion, but also fear, anger and suffering. They laugh whilst running, hugging one another and playing like teenagers, compelled by a mysterious force to give their laughter a rhythm, a sound and a form.
The title is a tribute to Augusto: the white clown, the fool, the clumsy, drunken idiot with the red nose, who is always hurting himself and laughs at everything. But ‘Augusto’ also means imperial, regal; it is the name of Rome’s first emperor, creating two faces of the same mask.
Just as in the circus, where a clown’s fall is met with a mock slap, in AUGUSTO we laugh at violence too. We laugh as children laugh, until we realise that, this time, we’ve really hurt ourselves.
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by Alessandro Sciarroni with Gianmaria Borzillo, Pere Jou, Leon Maric, Roberta Racis
from AUGUSTO by Alessandro Sciarroni debut cast in rotation: Massimiliano Balduzzi, Gianmaria Borzillo, Marta Ciappina, Jordan Deschamps, Pere Jou, Benjamin Kahn, Leon Maric, Francesco Marilungo, Cian Mc Conn, Roberta Racis, Matteo Ramponi
In the exhibition galleries, there is but one language: laughter.
The performers laugh to convey joy, euphoria and emotion, but also fear, anger and suffering. They laugh whilst running, hugging one another and playing like teenagers, compelled by a mysterious force to give their laughter a rhythm, a sound and a form.
The title is a tribute to Augusto: the white clown, the fool, the clumsy, drunken idiot with the red nose, who is always hurting himself and laughs at everything. But ‘Augusto’ also means imperial, regal; it is the name of Rome’s first emperor, creating two faces of the same mask.
Just as in the circus, where a clown’s fall is met with a mock slap, in AUGUSTO we laugh at violence too. We laugh as children laugh, until we realise that, this time, we’ve really hurt ourselves.
credits
by Alessandro Sciarroni with Gianmaria Borzillo, Pere Jou, Leon Maric, Roberta Racis
from AUGUSTO by Alessandro Sciarroni debut cast in rotation: Massimiliano Balduzzi, Gianmaria Borzillo, Marta Ciappina, Jordan Deschamps, Pere Jou, Benjamin Kahn, Leon Maric, Francesco Marilungo, Cian Mc Conn, Roberta Racis, Matteo Ramponi