ALBERTO SORBELLI, Tragedia con intervallo, 2004

Filmmaker, born in 1965, lives and works in Paris and Hamburg.

Invited to stay at the Laboratoires in 2004, artist and performer Alberto Sorbelli carried on his theatrical experimentations, started in 2003 with Esthétique de la spéculation, a conference-happening staging a real trader from the Stock Exchange. The Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers supported him for the production of Tragedia con intervallo, a play for a yogi and six actors. Tragedia con intervallo is a compilation of stories about theater, narrated during intermission by the spectators in the playhouse. Are they evoking a show from the past or the future, or the one that has just ended? Are these in fact real shows? The description of a show from memory always being a reconstruction of the past, it is more a subjective desire than objectivity, and is therefore more a matter of creation than real nostalgia. Thus, the “performing spectators” of Tragedia con intervallo construct a brand new show in real time and from theater memories.