Fotofinish

A man photographs himself to feel less alone. He opens a studio in which he immortalises himself, pretending to be both client and expert photographer. Through the multiplication of his image, he reaches the point in which he believes himself to be a politician addressing a crowd. A crowd that, obviously, does not exist. Between one assembly and the next, he proclaims himself to be the creator of travelling hospitals that go directly to the homes of the ill. He is always at the centre of these hospitals; the head physician, patient and nun, who replaces medical instruments with faith. He soon convinces himself that he is not alone, and slowly descends into madness. Never completely, however.
«In the midst of his self-presenteeist delirium – explains Antonio Rezza – he comes to imagine himself a woman, complete with camouflaged nudity, and a man, shifting between the two and imagining them going out together and returning side by side.» Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza, winners of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennial and special Ubu Award winners “for the lucid process of exploring the cruelty obtained through the crazed genius of an actor and the plastic intuition of an original visual artist”, come to the stage of the Teatro Strehler with their by-now classic play.