Altamira Laboratory
presents
THE CLINIC OF THE BLINDED
First performance: Odin Teatret (Holstebro), February 11, 2014.
Actors: Carolina ALBANO, Fabio Ezechiele SFORZINI, Julia FILIPPO, Luca VONELLA, Sofie SONTHEIMER, Sonja Birgit BERG, Valerio PERONI
Dramaturgy and directing: Pierangelo POMPA
Winter. Christmas party, perhaps in an institution for mental health. A crowd of blinded people who have lost their pace. Some have been blinded by anger, some by a dream of love. Others have been blinded by the mocking spell of a utopia and some, like Oedipus, have pierced their own eyes, so as not to see their failure. The repertory of blunders is very wide.
A generation with a hopeless face and its heart out of order, born too late to still believe in the old illusions but too early to forget and reinvent them. The Clinic of the Blinded is a play about the disenchantment and the lost technique of following a star. It talks about the few children still alive under the ruins of maturity without hope. The Babel of their whispers could suddenly reveal a tender choir of revolt. Behind the alienated routine of a warm soup, an unpredictable nativity could perhaps be celebrated.
