Synopsis

A woman and a man visit a city for a brief vacation. Their plans are disrupted when they meet the guest, the owner of an apartment they rented online, a stranger who leads them on a path going from the city center to its outskirts. A chaotic white night is happening in the center, a party for all whose invite seems to be to lose oneself and become someone else, even if only for a few hours. Lost in a periphery where everyone is a citizen and a stranger at the same time, far away from the center and from the party, the woman and the man meet a young girl who will run away from home to look for a better future, a mother who has lost a son, and another man who says he lost his ID and identity. The woman and the man embark on an initiation trip which, through their meeting with the stranger, the other, will make them call what they think they are and want into question; they thus abandon their role as tourists and voyagers to face the unknown outside the certainties of the reassuring weekend they had imagined. The city reveals itself as welcoming and threatening at the same time, populated by individuals who embarked on extreme voyages, who are there to stay, or who wish to live forever. 

directed by Cristina Spina
with
Daniel Abeles
Hiram Delgado
Tori Hernst
Arielle Goldman

produced by Valeria Orani
sound engeneer and editing Marc Urselli
recorded at East Side Sound - NYC MMXXII - The Italian Playwrights Project 3rd edition© 

ABOUT THE Author:

Tatjana Motta (Venezia, 1988) earned her degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the IUAV University in Venice and, subsequently, her Master in Dramaturgy from the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. 

Her graduation demonstration, the play Tutto a fuoco, debuted at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, in the first edition of Teste Inedite series. In October 2017 she wrote the micro-drama I palazzi esplodono, Edgar compra la dinamite which was staged for Metropolis – Promised Lands, a project supported by Fondazione Milano. In the same year, she was a finalist at the 12th Premio Riccione Tondelli with her play Nessuno ti darà del ladro.

Since April 2018 she has been part of Playstorm, the permanent dramaturgy workshop of the Teatro Stabile in Torino, conceived and directed by Fausto Paravidino.

In 2019 she was among the authors selected by ATS Beyond the Sud (Betsud) for a residency at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in collaboration with the international exchange program Complexo Sul di Complexo Duplo. Currently, she is among the finalists for a research scholarship for the Betsud project 2020, created in collaboration with El Cultural San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina), INAE (Montevideo, Uruguay), Fundación Teatro a Mil (Santiago, Chile), and Teatro Technis Karolos Koun (Athens, Greece). She won the 55th Premio Riccione per il Teatro 2019 with her play Notte Bianca.

She lives in Milan.