Stelle della Sera is a play by Roberto Paci Dalò and Gabriele Frasca. The play is based on two texts by Gabriele Frasca, part of a collection called Tele and composed of five “tragedies”, as the authors call them, which reflect and stage the concept of catharsis. Stelle della sera provides for the dissolution of the scenic character and the progressive mise en scène of the spectator himself.

In Stelle della sera the entire theatrical environment, not just the stage, is transformed into a parallel and psychotic world of mises en abîmes. The development of catharsis is largely based on theatrical technologies (variously positioned sound diffusers, lights according to characters, music as a compositional element, etc.). The show involves not only the emotional reaction but also the physical and perceptive involvement of the audience who, from the quietness of their seat, end up being sucked in and “focused” on the screen in front of them.

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As the authors say, these tragedies, little “shows of atrocities” offer themselves both as “musical” theatre and as “theatre of the senses”. In Stelle della sera we participate in the theatre of “sensory hyperstimulation”: the spectator enters into the action through some elements connected only to the dramatic media. With this show Roberto Paci Dalò and Gabriele Frasca demonstrate that true catharsis belongs only to the theatre.
The texts of Stelle della sera are contained in: Gabriele Frasca, Tele. Cinque tragedie seguite da due radiocomiche, Naples, Cronopio, 2002.

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In 2005, Stelle della sera was presented to the people of Rimini by Roberto Paci Dalò on the occasion of the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the birth of Giardini Pensili. On 6 and 7 May 2005 it was staged at the Teatro degli Atti together with Language is a virus, a meeting with the author in which Gabriele Frasca, among others, took part. The meeting was followed by the screening of the film Elegia italiana (RPD-Giardini Pensili).