Riflessi_english

	RIFLESSI by Antonio Corsi and Regina Brunoni Monologue in one act Performed by Antonio Corsi Directed by Regina Brunoni	The relation mother–son takes place between the walls of a house made for Riflessi, using all the shapes and colours of human rivalry. The mother-woman, queen-slave of the house takes off her obsession to be a housewife and puts herself in the open, covering herself with lost sensations of her youth. The son-man embraces and then leaves the mother's project thought for him, to discover his individuality that unavoidable divides him from her. The two in one live an up and down of emotions, that mark the way of a life that's changing and, of another one that can't go back in time. The narrative drops the need of speech as a form of communication. It uses body language. In a room, in front of a mirror, in the middle of everyday chores, the figures of the mother and son alternate. They look for each other, they follow each other, even though they both feel together. Like every human being, they are both very serious and have self respect, but at same time they take moments of liberty and laugh at their drama
	16-30 July at19:15
“Once my mother said to me “Well, have a son and when you need him he leaves home”. Then I imagine her behind a mountain of dirty plates to wash. There, with her gloves and her sponge busy working hard washing plates that she will wash again after the next meal. My mother was also the one that said I should have left home and find a secure job possibly in the forces, because no one could sack me there. That's what I did: I studied, I got a degree, and now I pretend to be a military. It happened one day that my mother phoned me and said “so, don't you ever come home?“ “I can't, I'm so far away“. She would have liked to do something else instead of a mother all her life long, I don't want to feel guilty for being the son that I am. Then one day I return home and realise that it isn't my home anymore and that everything I should have given to my mother I wouldn't have the chance to give her again.” *Antonio*		“I saw what A. had inside by the movements of his body and in his gestures stamped on his face damp with tears. I recognized in his energy the desire of all of us to understand the deep mystery of the bind between a parent and child, to then find out that it is often unavoidable to leave it unsolved and abandon oneself in emotions even the most simple ones, that blood ties change and transform in relation to time and space. His past entered me with great energy allowing me to understand that his past wasn't much different than mine, and giving me precious advice to work on. When our work was at its first stage, I felt on one side the sensation of childhood, the withdrawal from roots and the son return, and on the other side the frustration, and the memories of the mother past. Continuing to work together was a duty, to complete the process for which we had started. That's why I accepted his proposal to make it live performance.” *Regina*

RIFLESSI
by Antonio Corsi
and
Regina Brunoni

Monologue in one act

Performed by Antonio Corsi
Directed by Regina Brunoni

The relation mother–son takes place between the walls of a house made for Riflessi, using all the shapes and colours of human rivalry.

The mother-woman, queen-slave of the house takes off her obsession to be a housewife and puts herself in the open, covering herself with lost sensations of her youth.

The son-man embraces and then leaves the mother's project thought for him, to discover his individuality that unavoidable divides him from her.

The two in one live an up and down of emotions, that mark the way of a life that's changing and, of another one that can't go back in time.

The narrative drops the need of speech as a form of communication. It uses body language.

In a room, in front of a mirror, in the middle of everyday chores, the figures of the mother and son alternate. They look for each other, they follow each other, even though they both feel together.

Like every human being, they are both very serious and have self respect, but at same time they take moments of liberty and laugh at their drama

16-30 July at19:15

“Once my mother said to me “Well, have a son and when you need him he leaves home”. Then I imagine her behind a mountain of dirty plates to wash. There, with her gloves and her sponge busy working hard washing plates that she will wash again after the next meal.

My mother was also the one that said I should have left home and find a secure job possibly in the forces, because no one could sack me there. That's what I did: I studied, I got a degree, and now I pretend to be a military. It happened one day that my mother phoned me and said “so, don't you ever come home?“ “I can't, I'm so far away“.

She would have liked to do something else instead of a mother all her life long, I don't want to feel guilty for being the son that I am.

Then one day I return home and realise that it isn't my home anymore and that everything I should have given to my mother I wouldn't have the chance to give her again.”

Antonio

“I saw what A. had inside by the movements of his body and in his gestures stamped on his face damp with tears.

I recognized in his energy the desire of all of us to understand the deep mystery of the bind between a parent and child, to then find out that it is often unavoidable to leave it unsolved and abandon oneself in emotions even the most simple ones, that blood ties change and transform in relation to time and space.

His past entered me with great energy allowing me to understand that his past wasn't much different than mine, and giving me precious advice to work on.

When our work was at its first stage, I felt on one side the sensation of childhood, the withdrawal from roots and the son return, and on the other side the frustration, and the memories of the mother past. Continuing to work together was a duty, to complete the process for which we had started.

That's why I accepted his proposal to make it live performance.”

Regina