PICTURES FROM GIHAN

MUTA IMAGO (IT)

Pictures from Gihan is part of a triptych of works entitled Lives on which the Italian company Muta Imago is working: three shows, which are three biographies of different real people, set in different times and places and each told in a particular way. They all have one thing in common: in each of them, at a certain point, an extraordinary event happens that will change them forever.

Gihan I. is a young egyptian blogger. In 2011, like hundreds of thousands of her fellow citizens, she lived through a revolution. Starting from the first image of February 11, 2011 in which Gihan is interviewed in Tahrir Square, until today’s tweets through which Gihan tells of her life in Cairo under the military coup, we try, through her glance, to trace a personal and collective story, recollecting and manipulating the traces of a life that happens faraway from us, asking ourselves why we feel it so close to ours. And wondering in which ways it speaks to us.

PICTURES FROM GIHAN
ideation Chiara Caimmi, Riccardo Fazi, Claudia Sorace
direction Claudia Sorace
drama / suond Riccardo Fazi
technical direction Maria Elena Fusacchia
video processing Luca Brinchi, Maria Elena Fusacchia
performance Claudia Sorace, Riccardo Fazi
dramaturgy consultant Giuseppe Acconcia
sound effects advice Edmondo Gintili
dresses Fiamma Benvignati
organization Manuela Macaluso
stage pictures Stefano Augeri
big thanks to Glen Blackhall for the questions asked, Lukas Wildpanner for the audio advices and Tony Clifton Circus for their microphones
production Muta Imago
coproduction Romaeuropa Festival 2013 artistic residencies Orchard Project – New York, Kollatino Underground – Roma, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo – Roma, Teatro di Roma, Inteatro Polverigi; a show born inside the Wake Up! project by Teatro di Roma

TUE 22.10.2013 | 20.30
TEATRO FOCE – LUGANO

interview Claudia Sorace, Muta Imago