I Will Survive
“The Greek myths teach that we always fight against a part of ourselves, the outdated one, an old self. We fight mainly in order not to be something, to break free. Those without repulsion don’t fight.”
Cesare Pavese
Synopsis and credits
I survived being born, I survived falling out of the cot, I survived being bullied at primary school, unrequited love at secondary school, a couple of exam failures, job failures, a car crash on the motorway, a whirlwind marriage and an eternal divorce, a serious allergic reaction, my parents’ death… when you’re in your fifties this is normal. I am just an ordinary survivor of daily life.
Until a few decades ago you had three lives in video games. Three opportunities to jump or shoot or turn at the right time. If you failed, you needed more coins. The nice thing about today’s video games is that you can play over and over again without having to go to the Arcade games at the bar. But in its essence, life has remained exactly as it was in the Eighties: you only die once. Yet humanity resists, with its coins in its pockets. It fights, it struggles, it thrashes about, sometimes it lives on, sometimes it gets overwhelmed. It’s an apocalypse that is never completely catastrophic, an endless and glossy disaster despite the lack of money, teenage children, the lack of housing or crazy house prices, our all-consuming jobs, the body falling into pieces and you no longer know how to hold it together.
Is there a difference between living and surviving?
A project by Qui e ora Residenza Teatrale
script by Francesca Albanese, Silva Baldini, Laura Valli
with Francesca Albanese, Silvia Baldini, Laura Valli
director Marta Dalla Via
dramaturgical supervision Diego Dalla Via
lighting design by Paolo Tizianel
props created by Marco Amedani
costume designer Sofia Rime
supported by Campo Teatrale
What they say about us #
PANE ACQUA CULTURE Kilowatt Festival 2018: the theatrical energy of memory
ELENA SCOLARI | “… a hilarious and ironic manifesto against certain “defects” of life […] a great show, with a well-written script [..] performed in a light-hearted yet conscious manner, aware of the message being conveyed: we should be allowed to make mistakes, the single mistakes we all make are less serious if they are shared among the numerous “one + one + one” that form society.”
REPUBBLICA And man and woman emerged to see the stars again. Together
RODOLFO DI GIAMMARCO | “And full of documents, of files that retrace a life, testimonies that light up the acronym of a neon sign with the letters “Inps”. The show ‘I will survive’ by Quieora/Fratelli Dalla Via […] always goes beyond the boundaries for three women seeking vengeance for the past.”
DOMINIO PUBBLICO The atrocious sight of all the people who look at us and hurry past
ALESSANDRO SESTI | “I don’t want to delve into the first delightful part where the three hopeless cases (not the actresses, who were superb) tell their story, but prefer to take a look at the moment of the final revelation; after perhaps the most brilliant Mexican standoff in human history, with incredible simplicity, they turn around all the intentions up to that moment with maternal delicacy […] I too, when faced with the request for a gentle revolution, take a look at my soul and think about what I have to offer.”
PAPER STREET
GIULIO SONNO | Some address the issue of the contemporary ‘we’ by maintaining a relationship, either straightforward or transformed, with the reality of our times: this is the case of Panorama by Motus and Be Careful by Mallika Taneja (Santarcangelo), Traumboy by Daniel Hellman and I will survive by Qui e Ora & Fratelli Dalla Via (Kilowatt), Paradiso by Babilonia Teatri or the film Vangelo by Pippo Delbono (Terreni Creativi).
This ‘we’ suffers from the ethnic, ethical, and gender discrimination, which is oppressed by a ruthless and despotic system or by a dull, conformist mass (…) invention succeeds in avoiding simplistic divisions between good & bad, developing a language all of its own (the brilliant script in I will survive or the hyperbolic irony of Be Careful)…
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Varallo (VC) | Salone XXV Aprile
22.November.2024
Santorso (VI) | Parco Rossi
28.August.2024
Entratico | Sala Agorà
10.March.2023
Milano | Magnete
24.September.2022
Rovigo | Teatro Studio
16.May.2021
Aosta | Teatro della Cittadella
6.March.2021