Viva la vita (Hurray the life)

Inspired by women of the ninetieth century

Direction: Pino Di Buduo
Dramaturgy: Clelia Falletti
With: Nathalie Mentha

"The actor is a traveller in space and time and he uses the character and the stories to find his way. He flies with the map of memory and of fantasy, but his feet really draw the earth.
Does the actor tell about his life?
The poet speaks of himself through his rhymes. The painter speaks of himself through his colours. And what about the actor? Through the techniques I meet the characters, through the characters I speak of myself.
What Frida Kahlo, painter, and Ingeborg Bachmann, writer, have in common? Frida had her back and her dream broken by the iron of a tram gone haywire, and so she decided to paint, using her mouth when she was immobilized in her bed; to Ingeborg the passionate poetry and the bright wit were the gift distilled by the waste of a world war.
I travel from one to the other and slowly I understand, ever more as I am meeting them and I am seeing myself reflected in them."

Nathalie Menta          

Promo:

Performances:

La Valletta (Malta), Holstebro (Denmark), Copenhagen (Denmark), Formia (LT), Lecce, Fara Sabina (RI), Cosenza, Cagliari, Caserta

Press opinions:

The Sunday Times
"The Italian Culture Institute presents a performance inspired by Frida Khalo and Ingeborg Bachmann, Viva la vita, at Action Base (...). Great women artists, Frida Khalo (...) fascinating, in love and loved by illustrious names from both sexes. (...) One of the innovative writers of the post-war Europe, Ingeborg Bachmann was twelve when she saw the nazi troops marching into her house in Australia: -This was the end of my childhood.
The actress Nathalie Mentha (Teatro Potlach) said: -What could Khalo and Bachmann have in common? I made a journey between one and the other in space and time, slowly getting to know, observing inside myself I reflected myself in them, following the maps of memory and fantasy".

Il Messaggero- Rieti
"Teatro Potlach chooses to sign the last days of the second editino of the "Intercultural Workshop on the Theatrical Practices: the Mask between West and East" with two high standard performances. (...) Tonight at 9 p.m. will be on stage "Viva la vita", directed by Pino Di Buduo. The actress Nathalie Mentha, with the help of music and poetry, will lead the audience into a historical period. "A historical period will be seen through the eyes of the women who made great the ninetieth century: from the painter Frida Khalo to the writer Ingeborg Bachmann", explains the actress".

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