{"id":1210,"date":"2002-02-27T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2002-02-27T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:17:27","slug":"il-gioco-dellepidemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/il-gioco-dellepidemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>by Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Eug\u00e8ne clown and shaman<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Killing game<\/i>, o <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Jeux de Massacre<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> to use its French title, can be said to describe the great variety of death: one day, in a city that is not clearly identified and in an equally unspecified period, though it could be our own time, all of a sudden, without the slightest warning, a violent epidemic breaks out. No one knows what the disease is, but the fact is that people are dying like flies, \u201cat random.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Ionesco probes human nature just where it is laid most bare: in the face of the inevitable. What ensues is a magnificent vision of the human comedy. Everyone is recognizable. We and the people we know are in there too. The tragic, the sinister and the comic, horror and farce are all mixed up. It is a new <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Commedia dell\u2019Arte<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">In this play the author delights in multiplying the points of view, as if death were putting on a performance in a hall of mirrors, playing with innumerable reflections of its misdeeds and revealing its absurdities and inconsistencies, meanness and magnanimity. The variety of the perspectives also stems from the different meanings that the characters assign to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">In our production everything takes place along a street, when we are in the open, and in long corridors, the streets of our houses, when we are indoors. Places of passage in which the short main scene of life is staged emblematically. You enter, you play your part, you die and you exit, from life and stage. You pass, in other words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco Eug\u00e8ne clown and shaman Killing game, o Jeux de Massacre to use its French title, can be said to describe the great variety of death: one day, in a city that is not clearly identified and in an equally unspecified period, though it could be our own time, all of a sudden,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenale-teatro","tag-134"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/02\/ionesco5-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}