Dario Bacis

three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their “dear grandpa”. maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. they find themselves in different countries, yet in the same place. they confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to their octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for goethe, calvino and wallace and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love-hate for stravinsky. the appearance of the grandfather will clarify all doubts.

Curzio and Marzio are two picaroons who represent two sides of the same coin: the first one with moustaches, the second one with hats. Unknowingly dead, the picaroons meet in the first act and, after the introductions, they understand they are both looking for S. Alessio. At whatever time Curzio and Marzio appear, they change moustaches and hats. In the second act, the picaroons understand they are dead, and meeting S. Alessio they will discover he has their same face. A fanfare, instead of a funeral march, will end the work and their existence.

Abacuc lives in a railway house, with a garden circumscribed by the train tracks. He doesn’t speak a word, but distant voices can be heard from the phone. He spends his days walking around the cemetery, the only comforting place that seems to shelter him from the city. The man wanders among the tombstones corroded by time, seeking long forgotten names that bring him back to a time forever gone. He’s “the last man,” maybe a survivor.

A young girl is getting ready to welcome a client at her apartment.The man, transposition of Don Quixote, following a precise ritual, devotes himself to the maniacal cleaning of four rooms. The girl, personification of Dulcinea, eats, reads, paints her nails and smokes. She dress up and she get undress as if Don Quixote is not present there and as if there is no relationship between them. The client, following a pathological scheme, steals some girl’s objects, he puts them in a plastic bag and than inside a small briefcase. Sometimes the objects he fetishizes are destroyed like victims of maniacal bursts. This mechanism leads to the repetition of a celibate and solitary rite.