Dora pro nobis – (Saturday 7 January at 6.30 pm)

with Federica Fracassi , cello Lamberto Curtoni

from the book Malamore by Concita De Gregorio

production Theater of Dionysus, costumes by Antonio Marras

The story of Dora Maar it’s the twentieth century. Her seriousness, her perdition, her ability to see without being seen, her almost childish obstinacy, her extraordinary talent. Love, above all. The story of this woman, part Croatian, part Argentine, who nevertheless grew up in France – the Slavic countries, Latin America, Paris: three worlds inside her – has obsessed me since I was a child.

I touched her, an aunt who had known her told me her stories.

His encounters, men. George Bataille, Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lacan. That is, Literature, Poetry, Art, Psychoanalysis. All with a capital letter, all on her small and stainless body. The light in the shadow. Always loved, always rejected. Madness, ultimate wisdom.

Putting yourself in the shoes of others, embodying and ‘feeling’ the stories that look at us and concern us is what I have always wanted and tried to do. I imagined being Dora a thousand and a thousand times. All women are inside her. This little text is an experiment, an open test.

It will change, Dora always changes. In the body and soul of Federica Fracassi, in the music of Lamberto Curtoni she becomes one of us, today. One of you. Keep her company, she will give her back to you forever.

( Concita De Gregorio)