A performance in motion inside and beyond the stage walls, drawing its origins from a well-known cinema classic: after opening at the Exma on September 13th , the thirty-second edition of the Fuorimargine festival now continues its journey with the new performance " Darkness Picnic " by the Dom- company, scheduled for today, Saturday 26th at 6pm , in the spaces of the Sala Convegni Cgil in viale Monastir 17 , followed by a walk towards Santa Gilla with a picnic at the end.
Freely inspired by the famous " Picnic at Hanging Rock " by Peter Weir and the novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay , the site-specific work has an indoor prologue, where in the darkness the audience eavesdrops on a conversation between two friends – one a psychoanalyst, the other a philosopher of aesthetics – which develops in a process of free association starting from the themes touched on in the two inspiring works : the social structure of picnics, the seduction of bodies out of place and the attractive force of the uncontaminated landscape, but above all the giving in to the call of the unknown to free oneself from the social constraints of the present .
And from the Conference Hall, the walk that leads to the picnic in the Santa Gilla area becomes an integral part of the show, conceived by the authors as a "temporary bivouac for nocturnal narrations" : a long musical suite and a space for deep listening, where at sunset its mystical side emerges.
The first in a series of works dedicated by Dom- to the centrality and political value of desire, erotic life and the radical consequences of processes of individual and collective liberation, the three-hour "Darkness Picnic" is written, directed and designed on stage by the company founders and , with the creative and performative contribution of , , , and enriching the conversations between and .
