"The Living Room," an opus in the domain of Art as vehicle, takes us home, to a place in which we welcome another. By starting from this fundamental action that can take place in a living room, we enter an investigation into how the potentialities of performance craft can both enrich and be enriched by daily inter-personal relations and realities. How can our room come alive? How can one be with another in such a way that the quotidian slides seamlessly into the non-quotidian? Here the witness has a chance to shed his anonymity, being an individual, a guest. Within our meeting a performative event unfolds, structured and precise, a living stream of actions based on work with songs of tradition, as well as texts exploring what it takes to awaken ourselves faced to ourselves, the other, and the world.

"The Living Room," directed by Thomas Richards, Artistic Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, and with Focused Research Team in Art as Vehicle.

The Workcenter is active within the structure of Teatro Nazionale, Teatro della Toscana.

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