In the myth of Homer's Penelope is a woman of Ulysses, in perpetual expectation of her husband's return from the successful expedition to Troy. Ulysses, as we know from high school afternoons spent on the Divine Comedy, will never return to Sparta, Penelope and the poor will continue to wait in vain. The review of Pepa Plana shows us how this expectation could become very productive and enjoyable, if only the poor Penelope had the features of a clown. A clown woman, overwhelming and irresistible, a true master of stage and can not unrivet the viewer even a second from everything that happens on stage, with the help of a very nice "servant", the old Pepita, a sewing machine and a thread that will unfold on clothes lines present the background to tell the public a version of critical (and hilarious, God forbid) of the Trojan War.
Penelope affects everyone, even directly, as in the amusing case of "Herman", ignorant woman in the audience found itself at the end ... the subject of hormonal patterns of the same character, in a continuous flow of small comic situations, but which can also be repeated put to the test ... the stomach of the audience, overwhelmed by lots of laughter. Ships and Castles of thread, paper soldiers, a Trojan horse made from sewing machine, a stuffed parrot poor who can not fly but which nevertheless is sent from the increasingly dizzy Penelope at Troy, then to go home and battered dying, and highlight, funny dances of New Zealand. The wait becomes an excuse to fill the life of Penelope and imaginary conversations with a variety of activities and thus to forget their loneliness. When it became clear that Ulysses will never come back, you just have to Penelope relativize all staging a hilarious version of the report to say the least passion between him and his new flame Calypso.
Penelope thus brings to the scene of the terrible plight of the lonely and abandoned, forced to live in his imagination, the lives of others to be able to give meaning to their own. In fact, under an aura of irresistible comedy, Penelope does nothing but dream and "tell" the companies that are actually his Ulysses is experiencing and wind away the pain of his loss. Of course, everything we are shown from the perspective of a clown, which can metabolize this situation much better than it did the Penelope "real", or than do many Penelope (also male, of course) that populate our world, they wanted nothing more than another life, even with those who left them. So melancholy aura surrounding a small masterpiece of skill and staging, which leaves the viewer, enthusiastic and kidnapped, to flutter out of the room, a bit 'like confetti that Penelope uses to close the show, and probably also his dream of the return of Ulysses.
Samuel Ferrari
Penelope , company Cia Pepa Plana,
Directed by Nola Rae, with Pepa Plana.
Saturday, October 23, 20:45 Theatre NuovoStudioFoce Lugano.
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