In AMORE AND PSICHE seduction is enacted out of love and ultimately leads to a union: a union of soul and body, of self and other, of actor and spectator. From duality, we thus arrive at sharing, at fusion with the other. The myth, moreover, tells us that this union is anything but easy.

 

Psiche's vicissitudes are terrible and at times seem capable of devastating her completely: but they are merely the necessary path to her final union with Eros. The world, rather than a vain vale of tears, appears, to quote Keats, as the valley of soul-making. For, to quote Jung, "the soul cannot exist without its other part, which is always found in a YOU."

 

The work is based on the direct, dramatic, and sensorial involvement of only two spectators per performance: a man and a woman.

 

Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. They are recognised as one of the leading companies of the new Italian and European theatre. “THE SPECTATOR'S THEATRE” is the poetics originated and developed by Teatro del Lemming over the past 40 years. 

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Direction and music: Massimo Munaro

Performers: Diana Ferrantini, Alessio Papa, Fiorella Tommasini, Marina Carluccio and Veronica Di Bussolo

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Performed at Konstkollektivet, Pixbovägen 5, Mölndal

In collaboration with Konstkollektivet

Supported by Göteborgs Stad Kultur & Västra Götalandsregionen