"What we don't expect, some god finds a way to make it happen, whilst what we anticipate does not come to pass. I can't remember where I read it, but it's definitely true"
Lost
by Greta Cappelletti
translated by Valentina Marconi
directed by Kate O'Connor
with Neil D'Souza, Caroline Faber,
Jack Parker, Asha Reid,
Simon Rivers, Leo Wan, Helena Wilson
2016 - Finalist for Premio Network Nuova Drammaturgia
2017 - Published in "Publishing and entertainment" for the collection "Network Nuova Drammaturgia".
Translation supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the Italian Institute of Culture, London, and the British-Italian Society.
(...) In "Lost" by Greta Cappelletti, the conflict with a family paradigm imposed by generational imperatives ends in defeat. There is an unbridgeable gap, or a gap that can only be filled by an act of parricide, beyond which the future is uncertain and the background unstable.
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(...) A writing of the contemporary, that goes beyond the mere and easy exposition of topical subjects; not just referencing the current state of affairs but digging deeper in search of new forms and languages.
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Massimo Sgorbani
a note from the playwright
I wrote Persi in 2015. It was initially a short story with a single protagonist: a sixty year-old man, enslaved by Tinder. He was transformed and expanded into seven characters, all "lost" in one single day but nevetheless always connected to each other. The title of the first draft was "Once Upon a Time Hansel and Gretel" because of some analogies that my story has with the fairytale, but I got fed up with people asking if it was a play for children, so I changed the title to "Lost", as in actually getting lost but also failing: to get lost as individuals and to fail as a generation.
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