concept: Chiara Lagani, Luigi de Angelis
direction, lighting design, sound devices: Luigi de Angelis
dramaturgy and costumes: Chiara Lagani
set: Luigi de Angelis, Antonio Rinaldi
music: Giacinto Scelsi, Canti del Capricorno
with: Marco Cavalcoli, Chiara Lagani, Francesca Mazza
scene movements: Antonio Rinaldi
scenery and technical realization: Antonio Rinaldi with Giovanni Cavalcoli, Lia Pari
decorations: Sara Masotti
literature detective: Margherita Crepax
dancing masters: Edoardo Sebastiani, Elisabetta Ragazzini
tailoring: Laura Graziani Alta Moda
promotion: Sergio Carioli, Marco Molduzzi
press office: Marco Molduzzi
logistics: Sergio Carioli
administration: Antonietta Sciancalepore, Marco Cavalcoli
production: Fanny & Alexander and Festival delle Colline Torinesi, with the cooperation of Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri, with the patronage of Regione Emilia-Romagna, Provincia di Ravenna, Comune di Ravenna, with the patronage and cooperation of Comune di Bagnacavallo, with the contribution of Romagna Acque - Società delle Fonti Spa and Hera Ravenna
With thanks to Prof. Arnaldo Benini, Claudia Losi, Elisa Eusebi, Filippo Farneti, Renzo Palmieri, Farmacia Dradi
With special thanks to Stefano Bartezzaghi, alchemist of alphabets
The cameo of Ophelia by Francesca Mazza is a quotation from Leo de Berardinis' shows.

The excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov’s works, translated in Italian by Margherita Crepax, are used in accordance with "The Vladimir Nabokov Estate"

... for the human brain can become the best torture house
of all those it has invented, established and used in millions of years,
in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
(V. Nabokov)

Just imagine to find yourself inside a brain. As a matter of fact, this brain is a delightful theatre where some obsessions will take the shape of a play. Just try and imagine this little theatre – no matter how obscene and dramatic – like it was a clinic, a mental home at the heart of a drama. The drama we will watch is the very one appearing in the first three chapters of “Ada”, the famous novel of our life. It's the story of Aqua, erratic adolescent, affllicted by a syndrome of existalienation as a consequence of the great disaster afflicting the whole mankind and enigmatically changing the very code of this tale.
But it's also the story of Marina, Aqua's sister and actress, yes, the Prima Donna in our drama. It will be a story of love and jealousy. In fact both the sisters will love the very same man, or rather they will be haunted by the very same demon, precisely Demon, Aqua's husband and Marina's lover respectively. Voilà, here is the tangle! And here we are again inside the little theatre! Aqua will be placed at the centre of a perfectly ecstatic role, the victim's one, object of violence and love by the world and the world of theatre.

Now it's up to you and you only to ascertain the following facts:

1. If this brain is more similar in theatre than the clinic or vice versa.
2. If Marina's wickedness is more harmful than Aqua's goodness.
3. Which sister gave birth to that baby we keep on hearing about; then if the abovementioned baby has ever truly existed.
4. Which the “EL code” is , maybe the entangled plot's exact solution, a kind of final test, in short; in other words, what is indispensable to understand and negligible to neglect.
5. In the end, who's really living and who's really dead.

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