The Queen and the Alchimist

OZU Production (Officina Zone Umane)

Monteleone Sabino (Rieti)

Authors

Anna Foa & Vittorio Pavoncello

Cast

Anna Foa e Vittorio Pavoncello

Harp

Nicole Marinucci

Piano

Nicolas Underwood

Installation

Ula Dajerling

Sculpture

Light Design

Giacomo Tringali

Enrico Blasi

Press Office

Giovanna Pipari

Regia

Vittorio Pavoncello

Borri: I prefer You sceptic that devoted. The light, will give You the eternal life, not the death in a miserable and dark day of the 17th century! Aren't You in frightens for death? Cristina: Its shade makes couple with mine on the walls of this building. And I don't know the light that illuminates us. Don't you see, my friend, on my face the signs of the end!? Only these are the signs that the Comet brights. All my body takes revenge.Borri: I prefer You sceptic that devoted. The light, will give You the eternal life, not the death in a miserable and dark day of the 17th century! Aren't You in frightens for death? Cristina: Its shade makes couple with mine on the walls of this building. And I don't know the light that illuminates us. Don't you see, my friend, on my face the signs of the end!? Only these are the signs that the Comet brights. All my body takes revenge.

Synopsis

We are in the 1680 year of the passage of the comet, Cristina of Sweden together with Francesco Borri, secluded to life in the jail of Castel Sant'Angelo for heresy, they are working to the philosophyc stone that transforms lead in gold. But the project cannot become true if first a Jewish secluded to Castel Sant'Angelo doesn't reveal a cabalistic word. A psycoanalist and a patient serve as counterpoint to Borri and Cristina and thanks to an alchemy of the psyche they entertain with the two historical characters a relationship that throws a light, even if it is not that of the comet, on the transmutations that sexuality have in the contemporaneity.

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