Pieralli Theatre Director

All reality, according to Plato, is a shadow play: the figures that project those silhouettes are precluded, we don’t see them. So what if Macbeth were right? or Miranda? or Rosalind? Who, more than Shakespeare, has crossed the tenuous limbic threshold between dream and reality, between vision and things seen, between the desperate urge  to restore order to a world out of joint (Hamlet) so to make sense of it  and the defeat of Reason that has lost the heart of the matter? Pier’Alli navigates between parallel worlds, he pursues the appearance of reality as once did Menelaus and the entire Achaean army pursue in vain the phantom look-alike of  Helen…

Everything comes to pass. As does drama imagery. Especially drama imagery, which focuses for an instant on the passing of a moment in time, and that instant in time, when demonstrated, is already lost in the act of representing it. Allegory of what? Of the passing of time, of transformation, of no longer being part of life in the moment in which one remembers it or – vain illusion of perpetuating it – in which one represents it. Reality is on the surface of things, writes Nietzsche. Pier’Alli takes this literally while delicately shifting the focus of the concept: reality is in the image, or rather no, not in the image but in the appearance and disappearance of the image. The projected imagery, the films that are increasingly integrated with his stage productions, possibly constitute the supreme allegory, in as much as they represent, while devoid of enigma and without illusions, the illusion itself of appearing, of passing and of vanishing. 

(Text taken from the book edited by Dino Villatico (Theatrical Critic)