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SILVIA BATTAGLIO
LOLITA
+ synopsis
Born as a co-production with Odin Teatret and under the artistic supervision of Julia Varley, LOLITA is the first work in the Trilogy of Identity and forms part of a personal investigation into the theme of identity in relation to age. The starting point lies in the question of belonging—or not—to ourselves, to our time, to an age that represents us yet does not always correspond to our inner time. Within this misalignment between age and existence lies a place I would call: Lolita.
From her small corner of childhood, immersed in a garden of red apples, a Lolita—now an adult—travels backward through time, retracing her “first time.” She experiments, provokes, and questions the adult world in an attempt to intercept the trajectories of what is possible. She crosses disappointment and wonder, purity and sin, in an intimate journey suspended between adolescence and maturity.
Lolita weaves the threads of memory; she trembles, laughs, and sighs when, in the forest of her childhood, she encounters Mr. Humbert—the dark man of fairy tales, half man and half wolf—who, fearing old age, steals time from an innocent child like Little Red Riding Hood, yet cruel like a demon. Lolita searches for the traces of the girl she once was, the girl Humbert took from her. She leaps across time, loses it, and finally tries to hold on to it, moving between disorientation and play. Like a tightrope walker, she challenges a luminous yet perilous world, attempting to place herself at the uncertain edges of a reality in constant transformation—one destined to continually redefine its ethical values and to question apparently undeniable certainties, such as the right to one’s own childhood.
Woman, old, child, cruel, tender, and enigmatic, Lolita is alone because no adult loves her for who she truly is. And so she pretends to be someone else, within the perverse game of the theatre of life—sometimes with innocence, sometimes with cunning. She projects her body into the perdition of an ambiguous, metamorphic dimension where love and power coexist in the same instant, penetrating the deepest layers of being, traversing them with passion and bitterness, and finally with irony.
+ credits
regia e interpretazione / by and with Silvia Battaglio | consulenza artistica / artistic advice Julia Varley | liberamente ispirato a / inspired by Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) | coreografie e drammaturgia / choreography and dramaturgy Silvia Battaglio | suggestioni letterarie / literary references Charles Perrault, Pia Pera | musica / music Torgue&Houppin, Alva Noto, Bizet | disegno luci / light design Massimiliano Bressan | produzione / production Biancateatro | coproduzione / coproduction Odin Teatret (DK) | sostegno alla realizzazione del progetto / support to the production Zerogrammi, Tangram Teatro | con il contributo di / with the contribution of Regione Piemonte, MIBAC Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
genere → genre TEATRODANZA/DANCETHEATRE
pubblico → audience 14+
durata → duration 1h















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