Apr 20 2009
Mary. Story of three women
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MARY: STORY OF THREE WOMEN
Three actresses alternate on stage giving life with their voices and bodies to the legendary three Maries: the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany.
Three modern women embody three mythical characters looking back for their human emotions and contradictions and making them a symbol of the strong women across the centuries.
Unconventional, sensitive, brave, sometimes frail women…
Taking inspiration from a number of various sources such as the Gospels, the Apocrypha, the Koran, Khalil Gibran, Mary Ellen Ashcroft, Marek Halter ,feminist works and patristic essays, the stories develop in a personal and original way, slightly different every time, every time establishing a different level of communication with the audience.
“Mary, story of three women” is basically a love story: the love of three women for the same man. This man happens to be Jesus of Nazareth but this doesn’t make their feeling less human, less deep or less true.
And so the story goes that Mary, his mother, was going to fill a jar in the river when she saw an odd butterfly… She would follow it and meet an angel named Gabriel…
Mary of Bethany, Martha’s an Lazarus’ sister, is a friend of Jesus since their childhood (as mentioned in the Apocrypha). They met in Egypt at the age of four. As the years go by, the two playmates will become inseparable friends.
Mary Magadalene goes back to the first time she met Jesus, by chance, in a wheat field. Taking inspiration from Khalil Gibran, the story tells of the love between a prophet and a prostitute. Two young people apparently with nothing in common but who, from their “first time” won’t stop looking for each other until their dying day and beyond…
No special effects or spectacular set but the pure pleasure offered by the tales of three contemporary women talking about three legendary women in three different womanly ways.
“Maria. Storia di tre donne.” has been performed at:
Teatro di Documenti, Rome
Parco di Tor Marancia, Rome
Parco del Canale dello Stagno, Ostia Lido, Rome
Teatro Argot, Rome
Basilica Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
Intermission, Saint Saviour Church, London
Monastero di Santa Chiara, Genoa
Chiesa di San Paolino, Viareggio
Abbazia di Camaiore
Teatro di Paglia, CAE – Rome
Chiesa di St. Claire, Toronto