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FINIS TERRAE
Finis Terrae is the story of a great journey, presented
in a grotesque frame. Improvised knights and horses set
out for high ideals of unity and fraternity while the
women are waiting sleepless… A visual outdoor
performance based on historical texts, movement,
live music and singing, masks and puppets.
THE TRAVELLING THEME
Man wandering for “gnosis”, adventure and discovery is
among basic archetypes of Western civilization. From old
Odysseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Aeneas, through the
Knights of the Round Table searching for the Holy Grail,
to Marco Polo, Columbus etc. men travel, always
attracted by taking the road, or the sea, to search for
something new, to realize a dream. What were they
searching for? A golden veil, a holy cup, a lost love, a
new home… Then travelling transformed their desires, and
what they really found was seldom what they had been
looking for.
All these male voyages are well known and have been
recorded for the eternal glory of the heroes and for the
memory of future generations. But what about women?
Women are rather those who wait. They do not travel. Are
they not interested? Or maybe they do travel, but in
another way… inside their minds, in their dreams. What
is the bitter taste of travelling for those who stay
home? Such questions brought us to a second perspective:
to look at human travelling also through the eyes of
those who were left behind, with hope, suspense, love,
fear, loneliness, envy, rage. The women take an
invisible journey within themselves. And their
travelling has hidden paths full of colours, even more
vivid than those of reality.
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