GRADUS. GIORNATE D’AUTORE

FOCUS FAUSTO PARAVIDINO

Author’s conversation with Florian Borchmeyer
Readings from Temporale by and with Fausto Paravidino, Daniele Natali and Iris Fusetti

TEATRO DUE – Shakespeare 1
25TH NOVEMBER, 4:30 PM

Temporale is a one-act play, written between 2020 and 2022, published in the digital magazine Snaporaz and, so far, never performed in the theatre.

The action takes place in a bar where two friends, two men in their 40s and 50s, who do not see each other very often, meet. A kindly waitress does her job as a bartender: she takes the orders, brings the two men what they order, and advises them. The two catch up on the progress of their lives since they last saw each other, then the conversation, over coffee, a drink and roast beef, takes an increasingly intimate turn and slowly begins to involve the waitress.

Fausto Paravidino signs a play that becomes an investigation of human relations, of our complicated approach to death, but also of the deeper meaning of life.

Fausto Paravidino is an actor, author and director. After attending the Scuola di Recitazione del Teatro Stabile in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he began writing for the theatre. He is the author of numerous plays, directs his own and other authors’ texts and works as an actor in theatre, cinema and television.

He has written several comedies including Gabriele (with Giampiero Rappa), 2 Fratelli (Premio Tondelli Riccione 1999, Ubu prize Best Italian Novelty 2000), La Malattia della Famiglia M (Premio Candoni Arta Terme), Natura morta in un fosso (Premio Gassman), Noccioline (for the National Theatre), Genoa 01, (for the Royal Court, directed by Simon Mc Burney), Morbid, Exit, The B-Case, Mariapia’s Diary (for the Stockholm Dramaten), The Neighbours (for TNB), Job’s Slaughterhouse, Emma’s Sense of Life, The Ballad of Johnny and Gill, Peachum, Inferno, Genoa 21, Cuts. His film Texas (2005), written with Iris Fusetti and Carlo Orlando, was presented at the Venice Film Festival. Recognised as one of the most representative authors of the new Italian dramaturgy, his plays are performed all over Europe. He directed the staging of the French version of Malattia della Famiglia M at La Comèdie Française. His latest work, Something Stupid, is a small play that is rewritten (sometimes completely) every time it is staged.