"Laces" by SILVIO ORLANDO

Goldfinch Ltd.
SILVIO ORLANDO

Domenico Starnone
based on the novel by Domenico Starnon laces and published by Einaudi
directed by Armando Pugliese

with (in alphabetical order) Roberto Nobile, Sergio Romano, Maria Laura Rondanini, Vanessa Scalera
and Giacomo De Cataldo

Roberto Create scenes
Silvia Polidori costumes
music Stefano Mainetti
Gaetano La Mela lights

"If you did you forget, sir, I remember it: I'm your wife."
This opens the letter Vanda wrote to her husband that he's gone home, leaving her prey to a storm of anger and helpless questions that are not answered. They married young in the early sixties, a desire for independence, but then around them the world has changed, and find themselves in thirty years with a family to become a sign of backwardness more than autonomy. So now he is sitting in Rome, in love with the gentle grace of an unknown with which the days are always joyful, and she in Naples with their children, to measure the extent of the silence and the growth of foreignness. What are we willing to sacrifice, but not to feel trapped? And what do we lose, when we choose to retrace our steps? Because nothing is more radical abandonment, but nothing is more tenacious of those invisible bonds that bind people to one another.
And sometimes it takes a minimum gesture to bring back what we've tried to put it aside.
Domenico Starnone gives us an exciting story and strong, masterful tale of an escape, a return of all the failures, ones that seem insurmountable and those that accompany us for a lifetime.
"We have both learned that to live together we have to tell us a lot less than we hide."