Travolti da un Insolito Destino Nell’azzurro Mare D’agosto

Facing on stage Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare di agosto by Lina Wertmüller, one of the greatest directors of Italian cinema - an author who has deeply shaped the culture and imagination of our country - is a challenge we have decided to accept with the due humility. Our version of Travolti... relocates the story in the dimension of the contemporary, choosing as a new battleground the different socio-cultural climate of a late capitalist society, where new tensions and contradictions determine and guide conflicts and emotions among the characters. In the last, very recent, years we have indeed witnessed a upheaval of gender balances, and we have seen a completely new awareness and a more nuanced and inclusive perspective on themes such as sex and race mature, which assume a fundamental weight within a text like this. If the acquisition of these new awareness nurtures the lively arguments of the first act, set on the luxurious yacht already present in the film - the quarrels between Raffaella and Toti, friends/enemies with irreconcilable values, the continuous skirmishes between Raffaella and Gennarino, the awkward exchanges between Gennarino and his boss Pippo - it is in the second act, when Gennarino and Raffaella, now shipwrecked, land on the island, that the shift of gender balances takes a decisive dramaturgical importance, also redefining the balances between the two protagonists. Taking charge of all this, however, does not mean blunting the cutting irony and caustic energy that characterize Lina Wertmüller: even while rebalancing the power dynamics between the two protagonists in the name of gender equality, the text does not lose its ability to provoke, entertain, and surprise. Travolti... is a tale of love and class struggle, and even if the battleground of the two characters has shifted from 1974 to today, the crack that divides them remains unbridgeable: one destined to move forward on their path of privilege, the other destined to be left behind.
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