Theatre in Italian language: Sissi l'Imperatrice

Written and directed by Roberto Cavosi with Federica Luna Vincenti and with (in o.a) Ira Nohemi Fronten, Claudia A. Marsicano, Miana Merisi, Milutin Dapce

Sissi the Empress is the story of the restless and tormented life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The text unfolds in various pictures, each of which examines certain aspects of the Empress's character and thinking: from philosophy to sex, from politics to art. The general portrait that gradually emerges reveals a woman as non-conformist as she was deeply frustrated by the rigidity and ruthlessness of the Viennese Court, but also the great poetry and desire for freedom of a creature who considered herself eternally ‘locked in a cage’. Anorexic, eternally mourning the absurd deaths of two of her children, she developed a sensitivity that was at once sorrowful and angry, but anything but abstract, in fact also directed towards the most delicate social issues: from the suffering of ethnic minorities to the abuses suffered by the proletariat.
Anti-imperialist and disgusted by the atrocities of the wars raging around her, Sissi maniacally devotes herself to the care of her body, a barrier against the sense of death hovering around her. Prophetess of the imminent collapse of the Habsburg Empire, Sissi shows us that world as a paradigm of our world, Empress in spite of herself, but an unrepeatable woman whose wounded sensibility speaks to all of us, to our wounds.

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