Delirio a Due - Corrado Nuzzo, Maria di Biase

"Delirium for two" is a small masterpiece of the Theatre of the Absurd, an irresistible theatrical joke typical of the best Ionesco, where the comic and mocking framework and verbal acrobatics still reveal a society drowning in daily tragedy and the disconcerting gratuitousness of behaviors, and where language, instead of being a tool of communication, is an obstacle that distances and divides. In the comedy, paradox and grotesque dominate, and the perpetual, futile, incessant quarrel between Him and Her, ridiculous human puppets imprisoned in the web of a bored and repetitive family household.

The theme of contention is always and only a pretext: is the snail and the turtle the same beast or not? An absurd lever (but which the two live as fundamental) that serves as a springboard to a tighter, acrobatic, and bellicose dialogue that soon reaches the heights of a nonsense from a comedic finale, a domestic tragicomic Helzapoppin. And all this while outside the house, a mysterious civil war rages on that the two, deaf and blind to reality, almost do not perceive, impervious to the bombs that explode, the shootings echoing in the street, the massacres, the walls and ceilings collapsing. Ionesco's comic and subversive power reaches brilliant and tragicomic results in this play, and the surreal naturalness with which the author constructs dialogues and situations of this cynical game of slaughter gradually becomes a formidable tool of analysis and criticism of a society that is obtuse and screaming, too often incapable of grasping the meaning of what happens around it, even pleased by its own narrow-mindedness. On stage, Corrado Nuzzo and Maria Di Biase lend their natural eccentricity, their unpredictable and unconventional talent, their taste for sudden reversal that portrays a situation that is the perfect, bitter metaphor of today, where laughter and smiles highlight even more the daily banality, conformism, and fears of a society that is arid and pathologically dissatisfied with itself.
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