At the
Teatro Quirino in Rome, on 17 March 1981, Pistoletto staged the theater
piece Year One, interpreted by the inhabitants of Corniglia.
The actors, like motionless caryatids on the stage, carried architectural
structures on their heads, while they narrated, in the manner of a
talking picture or a living sculpture, the progress of history from
Cain and Abel to Romulus and Remus, from Egyptian to Roman civilization
to the astronauts’ first flight to the moon. The piece was performed
again in 1991 at Castello di Rivoli (From Year One to Today. A
Work in Four Stanzas) and in 1994 at the Marstall Theater in
Munich (Year One – White Year) as part of the event,
Tempo, Tag, Theater. On these occasions it was gradually
enriched with new actors (the children of the early participants)
and new roles, among them the composition by Cristina Pistoletto based
on crucial events of 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tienanmen
and Timisoara incidents). |
