We will save the world before dawn

In an increasingly individualistic world, dominated by a schizophrenic and performative time, the price to pay even for the winning are the anguish and terror of failure that, today more than ever before, lead people to suffer from social panic, insomnia and chronic dissatisfaction.
We will save the world before dawn is the tale of the lives of some guests in a luxury rehabilitation clinic located on a satellite in space, a new tourist destination for the super-rich, specialising in the treatment of contemporary addictions (sexual, affective, work, psychotropic drugs). They are all victims of these and of their own selfishness, products of a world where words like community and kindness are almost completely banished except to be exploited for propaganda and commercial purposes. What remains is a confused and frightened humanity, overwhelmed by the obsession with this constant need to sell itself, terrified that no one will ever want to buy you.

Notes on dramaturgy
After having explored in several plays the world of the last, the outcasts, the excluded and the losers, in this new production we intend to investigate the world of wealth and apparent success, through the tale of the first, the winners, the ruling class, the rich, paradoxically, imprisoned in the same vortex of asphyxiating responsibilities, castrating duties, guilt and unhappiness that belong to everyone and, therefore, shattered by all that the capitalist mentality cannot buy: self-love, the purity of feelings, sincere affection, the search for authentic meaning in existence.
We will save the world before dawn is the story of the lives of some guests in a luxury rehabilitation clinic located on a satellite in space, a new tourist destination for the super-rich, specialising in the treatment of contemporary addictions such as sexual, emotional, work and psychopharmaceutical addictions. They are all victims of their own addictions and selfishness, escape routes from an oppressive reality. But addictions and rehabilitation are only the outward symptom of deeper, existential problems… of a feeling of loss common to an entire generation.
The entire show, in fact, wants to become a metaphor for a model of life that has now reached a point of no return, where words such as community, humanity and kindness have almost completely disappeared and been banished except to be exploited for propaganda, electoral and commercial purposes. What remains is a confused and frightened humanity, overwhelmed by the obsession of this constant need to sell itself, terrified that no one will ever want to buy you.
The whole thing will be explored in full Carrozzeria Orfeo style, thanks to an ever lucid and, perhaps, disillusioned eye, which intends to capture, with irony and even extreme amusement, the paradoxes, contradictions and grotesque deformations of reality through characters overflowing with humanity, irony and pain.
The show, after all, wants to recount a society that is increasingly sad, yet saturated with happy pictures in which there no longer seems to be a place where we can recognise ourselves as authentic subjects, let alone in social projects that require our dedication and loyalty. Because the only commandment seems to be that of producing; error is banished, individual suffering is perceived as shameful, as ballast to be hidden from others, as a clear sign of weakness and failure, while the new heroic word of capitalism is becoming more and more misleading and mean: resilience, which, in the cynical pragmatism of this sick system, basically just means: “Resist in spite of everything, ignore yourself and your pain, hide it, don't listen to yourself anymore, and move on. Produce, produce, produce! ” And if there is no limit to production, even individually, from fulfilled desires always new desires will arise as a consequence. More and more overbearing, obsessive and, often, induced by the outside world. As if we wanted to drink the sea from glass to glass. The infinite. The impossible. An impossible, timeless quest. And this is where our pain comes from.
Hegel speaks to us of Bad infinity as of “this continual wanting to surpass the limit, which è the impotence to remove it and the perennial relapse into it.”
And the big problem seems to be that we are no longer even shocked by the dysfunctions and atrocities of the system because it has become so damned normal that it has managed to colonise our unconscious without leaving us any perception of an alternative.

Gabriele Di Luca

Show not suitable for audiences under the age of 14