TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Cast: Matteo Bonfitto
Body Preparation: Gisela Doria
Lighting: Beth Lopes and Matteo Bonfitto
Set design: Beth Lopes and Matteo Bonfitto
Costume design: Beth Lopes and Matteo Bonfitto
Text by Fernando Bonassi and Matteo Bonfitto. Written based on René Descartes' Meditation IV: On Truth and Falsehood.
Directed by: Beth Lopes and Matteo Bonfitto
Duration: 30 min.
Descartes
2013
SYNOPSIS
In this performance-spectacle, the work with the actor's dramaturgy was significant. We began with a reading of Descartes' fourth meditation, "On Truth and Falsehood." Then, based on reflections and discussions about the original text, we arrived at the definitive version of the text used by Descartes, written by Matteo Bonfitto and Fernando Bonassi. This experience triggered new discoveries and perceptions, especially due to the choice of using a philosophical text as a starting point—a text that doesn't tell a story but is simultaneously full of reflections and images. As in *Silence*, the axis of the performance lies in the materiality of the acting.
Link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6eFCwtKrKg
