At the Piccolo Teatro the spettacolo “Distant Lights from Dark Places” tells the extinction of relationships

From Friday 3 to Sunday 5 September at the Grassi Theater, Distant Lights from Dark Places, a radio drama by Andrew Bovell, will be staged.

The opera

Distant Lights from Dark Places tells of extinction , understood as accidents and disappearances – as a pulping of relationships and our orientation in the landscape – be it natural and wild or domesticated and private. As in a thriller, the writing captures two men and two women in precarious and ambiguous situations, made up of vacillating relationships in a state of dangerous isolation. And underneath – almost psychoanalytically – blind chance, hazard and fear, dark engines of our common existences; and a dream in which all the characters seem to slide – real and 'unnatural' space at the same time, a place of the subconscious and of projections – which, like a sort of Moebius strip, re-draws what we perhaps call reality. A concert for four voices, images of sparkling skies and musical counterpoint that reasons for missed encounters, unspoken words, the impossibility of loving and being seen.

The appointment, in the scope of the cycle of events Each time the end of the world is unique, it is part of the Endling and other lost things perspective that explores the 'end' and Earth as the only precious concrete ground of life as we know it, the first field of investigation on complex systems that support relationships, imaginations and ecosystems that resist – touching ruin – to geological, biological and human mutations.

Andrew Bovell

Andrew Bovell was born in Perth, Australia in 1962. He graduated from the University of Arts of Western Australia and then earned a degree in Dramatic Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is the author of numerous plays, including “Distant Lights from Dark Places” (1994), “Scenes from a separation” (1995), “Who's afraid of the working class” (1998), “Confidentially yours” (1998) and “Fever” (2002). From his comedy “Speaking in tongues” was made in 2001 the film Lantana, directed by Ray Lawrence and scripted by himself. In recent years, Bovell has successfully alternated his work as a screenwriter with that of a playwright. Performed on the stages of all English-speaking countries, his plays are also gaining ground in the rest of the world. “When the Rain Stops Falling” premiered in New York in 2010; “The Secret River” was staged by the Sydney Theater Company in January 2013.