Art as an act of insubordination, as a gesture of escape from the familiar. Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella return with Metadietro, a new creation premiering nationally at Sardegna Teatro from October 10th to 12th, in the spaces of The Space Cinema – La Corte del Sole in Sestu, transformed into a theater for the occasion. This event reaffirms the island's experimental vocation as an artistic laboratory and a meeting point for languages.
Rezza and Mastrella, winners of the 2018 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, have been one of the most radical and unclassifiable couples on the contemporary scene for over thirty years.
In Metadietro they continue their exploration of language, the body, and chaos, bringing to the stage a grotesque and poetic reflection on the freedom and inadequacy of our time.
"Mutiny is always desirable in a healthy organism," says Rezza, outlining the show's genesis. At its core, an "electric blue admiral" attempts to save his ship while the crew, stunned by "market obsessions," drags him into a collective drift.
The metaphor becomes political and philosophical: the salvation of those close to us does not coincide with the escape of those who live by ideas. "No one is to blame," Rezza concludes, "there's just a great divide in our existence in the world." The language—visionary, fragmented, always ironic—retains that corrosive force that for years has made the performer a unique author, capable of oscillating between comedy and tragedy.
If Rezza gives voice and body to contemporary delirium, Flavia Mastrella constructs the space in which that delirium takes shape.
"Returning to the natural and wild dimension is impossible," explains the artist. "We are living in a new prehistory: the human role is confused and inadequate."
The scene becomes an artificial landscape, an “ecopentagon” in which technology is matter and ghost, a place of friction between body and machine .
His installations—always visionary and conceptually dense—render the imagery of a world where "technological cruelty permeates living beings" and "the hero has disappeared." It is a lucid and disturbing vision, which questions the very nature of theatrical gesture.
For this preview, Sardegna Teatro renews its commitment to the intersection of arts and space. Following collaborations with Grendi and Playcar, the organization directed by Massimo Mancini has entered into a new partnership with The Space Cinema Sestu – La Corte del Sole, which for the first time will be transformed into a fully-fledged theater.
An experiment that reflects the idea of culture as a fluid space, capable of invading unconventional places and overturning the public's habits .
After its island premiere, Metadietro will tour to Milan's Piccolo Teatro (Sala Strehler) and Rome's Teatro Vascello, confirming Rezza and Mastrella's central role in Italian artistic research. Their presence in Sardinia is not just a productive transition, but a symbolic choice: the island as a fertile margin, a place where experimentation can still afford to be radical.
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