The Cosmetic Life of Q

COSMIGONICA VITA di Q

by: All Cosmetics of Italo Calvino
dramaturgy: Vincenzo Manna
con (in o. a.): Valentina Bellè, Federico Brugnone, Barbara Chichiarelli (from 27 January to 3 February), Fabian Jung, Luca Marinelli, Gabriele Portuguese (from 23 to 25 January), Elena Radonicich, Gaia Rinaldi
designed and directed: Luca Marinelli
scenes and lights: Nicolas Bovey
costumes: Anna Missaglia
original music: George
sound: Hubert Westkemper
production: Company for Actors, Theatre of Tuscany
in collaboration with: Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi

Luca Marinelli immerses himself in the visionary universe of All the Cosmics of Italo Calvino, giving life to Q. A talented actor (winner of a David of Donatello, a Fox Cup and two Silver Tapes), brings to the stage this collection of stories that wind between science and fantasy, abstraction and reality.

Qfwfq is a timeless character, an eternal and lost creature, witness to the development of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present day, who suddenly finds himself living as an ordinary man in a city of our time, forgetting his past. But one day, thanks to the encounter with other eternal characters like him, he relives his own history and, in parallel, that of the universe. In the end, it will come to a new awareness of itself, of time and of all that surrounds it, becoming the guardian of the memory of the world in its entirety.

Marinelli highlights the whole depth of the Calvinian world, drawing inspiration from the composite “cosmic universe” and creating an original cosmogony, respecting the spirit of Calvin’s stories.

Opening hours

from Tuesday 23 to Friday 26 March at 21:00