'Alice & Loris’.[1]

Not with the usual words.

In the above photo: ‘Lunanzio. La vera storia’, by Loris Fabiani – Mondadori 2024

It is a stage at our level the one from which Alice and Loris expose themselves with a very probable but unidentifiable story. And they are so professional – Alice comes from the ‘Filodrammatici’ in Milan, Loris from the ‘Accademia Nazionale’ in Rome[2] - that are able to improvise without flaw with us spectators in the room. Loris doesn’t have a part : Alice is beautiful, elegant, good and can do it very well on her own. Why then together ?

The trick - we are surprised, because it is a crossroads – is in the cheerful arrogance of Alice, lighthearted and confident in a great great Someone who assures her of uninterrupted acclaim : and that’s how Loris takes on the part.

Starting from an amplified imagination that bores the unconscious but which the conscience welcomes and does not censure, the crisis can catch us : with all the predictable behaviours of a double Subject who obviously cannot fit, but that Alice knows how to bring back to the scene with credibility.

Then there’s a place for an ‘Incipit’ – and it is the real one, which is difficult for conscience : but which for everyone is the sun rising once more. Loris also drew it beautifully in black & white only, to begin his book not with the usual words.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – November 24, 2024

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[1] ‘Alice & Loris’ at the ‘Teatro Elfo’ of Milan (October 15-20, 2024) : Alice is Alice Redini, Loris is Loris Fabiani.

[2] ‘Teatro Filodrammatici’, Via Filodrammatici in Milan, and the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica ‘Salvo D’Amico’ in Rome : Alice and Loris bring technically to the scene a stand-up comedy (for them is a comedy-duo) with an interesting and unconventional message, which perhaps only this technique can offer.