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The devil is elsewhere

(from Judgement )
is not theater, not is music, not dance and is not art: it is the new show Marco Parente, a poor devil literally horned and bouquets for the protagonist

Photographed by Maga

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What future, if we can speak of the future, for theater song ? hybrid form and fruitful, passed by Gaber become a "classic" and still waiting for interpreters worthy (experiments in this regard have success, but aesthetics and politics of the flasks), this particular (de) typically twentieth-century still seems to take time to be able to declare their health. And while the "pure" standard bearers of Italian rock, Afterhours, open, in a questionable way, the performance, there are those who, under track but not too much, develop strategies to undermine the expressive styles of the usual song on stage, looking for new and mergers between different music, image, word, gesture and narrative.

Marco Parente is an original artist, strange beast, which does not lack curiosity, courage and humor : five (or six?) album by singer-songwriter (?) behind an activity as a musician, writer and performer who has seen him work with CSI, Carmen Consoli, Patty Pravo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti in a maze of paths very difficult to summarize. Artist, in a word. With some allergy labels, but, more importantly, the definitions concluded.

A lead at the Studio Theatre of Jesi Valeria Moriconi, a former religious building that now houses a fine exhibition dedicated to the actress, is his latest creation stage, the devil . Question of a modern operating in which is narrated by a clot of different forms of expression, the epic strategic crescent of a poor devil, narrated protagonist-narrator of the whole. It looks like a concert: battery on the left, on the other end keyboards, amplifiers and speakers spy, but, right now, you feel something ' another, rather than standing out for the screen to the bottom. With noises and voices offstage, between stories and songs dissolved aphorism, that's devil-Parente, guitar in hand and umbrella on the head, held high by a figure behind him. The reminiscence Magritte rips the veil on a story mocking and playful, dreamy tones and witty, in which a lord it is a figure out of time, out of sync, out of hand.

The devil in question is not an evil being and powerful, but the dis-graced the star of Russian fairy tales, always cheated, and literally blow horns. antihero of manque , failure to act, dell'inciampo expresses its elusive nature, as the show that his complaint be always elsewhere, something to bring and which they will testify paradox: it's not theater ( fortunately), it is not pop, not dance, although the skill of Frank Rounds is undeniable, it is not, finally, not even art, even if the projections are beautiful exploiting the background and the two side niches of the former church of San Floriano.
not and do not, you forgive the pun, in denial, but because the subtraction is the focal point of this project in which the structure itself is in crisis: songs performed in a position of imbalance, projections, light cast in the public eye , recorded voices that blend fables and regurgitation between Kafka and Joyce, went down in the stalls and developments in the scene of a "five-figure shoes," in which the legs and head are contained in gym shoes, like the poster of the show (the picture next is Roger Wolf Mengoni).

All in an hour of unusual weight, end up feeling not to have grasped everything, and the thirst for review, to understand. The word, as this is worm-eaten, used for mo 'of sound object, meaning that it lacks (at least in part) the meaning, the witness of an irreversible crisis. And here's the lighting: the pejorative title is homage to the Tuscan way of adopting relatives, but echoes of a lost Carmelo Bene is cited for not too much, and appreciate, respect, that of a memorable Lorenzaccio , in which the portmanteau of the sense of time and were pushed to extreme limits. Thus, then, that this show is not, nor can it be, theater song: is another, and ok, in the hope that the replicas can grind better than a brilliant stage writing, but with room for improvement, and that there might be an audience can get involved, and play with the same grace of this demonic dis-graced devil.

Igor Vazzaz

April 26, 2010

Reviewed Subject:
the devil, by and with relatives marco

Upcoming: May 8, Espace Senghor - Maelstrom Festival (Belgium), on tour in the coming months, see the appropriate page of the site Parente
The rest of the poster: Andrea Allulli, piano and several talking machines Emanuele Maniscalco, everything related to the time, Mattia Coletti, sound, Mark Falai, lighting design; Serena Costarelli, sets and costumes (designed by Parente) Study Robert Bua, set design, John Antignano, visual, production Mole Vanvitelliana Fund with support from the Marche Region and the Ministry of Youth
looks like: anyone, even with tracks and memories that we have tried to reconstruct
The previous show: The sound of books , 2005, that at this point we repent of having failure, but perhaps it was fate
The good: someone, from time to time, is truly trying to do something unexpected
shoe-Being: the bizarre image of the poster is somehow reminiscent of the cover of Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart , legendary (and still unbelievable) the cornerstone of rock
addition devil : Parente has a duo with the ironic name Barsantini Betti (showy anchorwoman Tg3 Tuscan) in league with Alessandro Fiori , Speech, and author of the Mariposa

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