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“Ashes by Muta Imago, the formation led by Claudia Sorace and Riccardo Fazi, was one of the most surprising shows of the 2022 edition of Short Theatre (… ) A breath of fresh air from a dramaturgical point of view, because in a time of looming apocalypses, of mechanisms of logic that seem to bend and jump, the only truly contemporary narrative is one that is able to trace the fragility of human experience back to sidereal and non-human dynamics, to the infinitely large and the infinitely small in constant relation to us.”Graziano Graziani, Stati d’Eccezione“I have an important piece of information to spread: theater, unilaterally given up for dead, or at least not quite so fit, is alive! And it can still be done! Claudia Sorace and Riccardo Fazi, among the few artists who are really able to experiment with languages and forms and at the same time also compose according to a traditional system, prove it.”Simone Nebbia, Teatro e Critica“Ashes is a sound show, also to be listened to by radio, that reverberates the associative modes of mental processes. Proceeding by continuous mixing, by juxtaposition of sound densities, the performance achieves interrelation through mutual listening: neither chorus nor addition of solo voices. The performance references the tradition of the literary avant-garde, the writing processes of Nanni Balestrini, the electronic musical compositions of Alvin Curran” Valentina Valentini, Artribune “Close to certain Beckettian thunderbolts; in the exhumation of the historic debate over phoné that Ashes provokes, not only does it land beyond theater, traditionally understood theater, but also beyond language, and the gamble of an entirely sound theater proves successful.”
Ludovico Cantisani, Persinsala