Director: Valeria Cossu
Venue: The New York Theatre Festival
Year: 2016
UNTIL DEATHE DO US PART
As part of the New York Venus Adonis Theatre Festival 2016, Valeria Cossu directed this dark comedy play, also helping playwright Catherine Hurd to develop the script and to produce the show. The project was nominated as Best Play of the Festival.
Valeria Cossu Director’s Note:
Like Pirandello, I have been always thinking that “Humor is the feeling of the opposite”. An outside tragedy can provoke us a smile at the events of the situation, but when we get inside the tragedy, the smile often becomes bitterness. In my opinion life it’s a tragic comedy. We smile and we cry, we have to deal with complex situations, decisions, contrasting feelings, and sickness. If we step outside of all of it and take a moment to find a smile inside our soul, that smile can help us to deal with the tragedy of life.
Catherine’s material has been a wonderful way for me to represent this concept through the ART and the TALENT of my cast.
None of this would have happen without the help of my great team.
As part of today’s society, in which it becomes so easy to escape from duty, what would you pick, duty or desire?
"And indeed there will be time to wonder, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?"