3 MAy 2025
7.30 pm
Onirica
directed by Giulia Odetto
written by Giulia Odetto and Antonio Careddu
with Daniele Giacometti, Camille Guichard, Andrea Triaca, Catherine Bertoni De Laet
dramaturgy Antonio Careddu
sounds Lorenzo Abattoir
scenes Gregorio Zurla
creation assistant Valentina Spaletta Tavella
with the artistic contribution of Camille Soave and Beatrice Vecchione
supported in residence by Tangram Teatro Torino and Sardegna Teatro
finalist project at Biennale College Teatro in Venice 2020 – Directors under 30
What if in a dream
There was enough room for another dream
Different, but similar
Better, but real
Then this reality would be twice more superficial
Than this dream so beautiful and real
What if I when wake up I couldn't go back
Having too many questions
Rejecting a distinction
How could time go by again?
And in which direction?
Onirica is a fragmented path of memories from the parallel word of dreams. Using the hypnotic component of visual and sound installation, Onirica brings the audience to a different state of perception, not entrusted to the logical understanding of what happens on stage, but to the recognition, more or less conscious, of the experience that every human being has of the dream world.
On stage, Maya is tormented by her dreams, having difficulty recognizing the waking states from the sleeping one, due to constant inroads between the two states. In Maya's dreams there are two recurring male figures, one extremely sensual and the object of a great desire that turns into obsession. The second is friendly, a sort of ever-present ally, almost taken for granted.
On stage dream images follow one another. The dramaturgy follows the logic of dreams and takes the audience into another dimension, made up of the representation of Maya's dreams, their re-enactment, and attempts to reconstruct them. Going through recurring dreams and managing to stay lucid during them, Maya will be able to increase her level of awareness and have conscious power over her dream world, becoming able to modify it.
From the director’s notes: " Working on dream as an alternative state of perception is to broaden the concept of reality. What is real? What matters for each individual, what shapes what we call reality is only the perception of the subject. Everyone is an architect, more or less aware, of his own reality. This concept is particularly evident in the dream world and becomes clear when lucidity is reached in it where the dreamer identified with an avatar - the sleeping body - creates the dream settings and decides the course of events.
Once this basic condition of human nature has been internalized, obsessions, fears and desires are no longer elements that hinder the true nature of the individual who, consciously, can finally abandon himself in a deep, dreamless sleep."
