The Forest

Contemporary theatre show directed by Claudio Tolcachir and conceived with Cristiana Morganti, combining theatre, dance and humour to reflect on the loss of parents and on memory.

The Forest is a contemporary theatre piece directed by Claudio Tolcachir and created with choreographer and dancer Cristiana Morganti, who also performs it on stage alongside Lisa Lippi Pagliai. The piece draws on autobiographical experiences and on references to classical theatre and its archetypes to examine how the death of one's parents completely transforms the life of the one left behind.

The tone moves between irony and sensitivity, and the production mixes theatre, dance and humour. The set design, by Cosimo Ferrigolo, turns the space into a shifting territory where grief, illness and vital energy, and its absence, coexist. The forest that gives the work its name serves as a symbol of what remains when the people who have shaped our lives are gone.

Tolcachir, founder of the company Timbre 4, had already presented Tercer cuerpo and Próximo at the Festival de Otoño. Morganti was for years a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company founded by Pina Bausch, an experience that shapes her way of combining dance, theatre and humour. The performance is in Spanish and Italian, with Spanish surtitles, and a talk with the audience is also planned after one of the performances.