‘I do not want to be first but rather last. The faster the world moves, the more I slow down. I go against the current. Like salmon. For a ‘codista’, the world is the other way around’. When he lost his job, the Milanese Giovanni Cafaro began waiting in line for others in exchange for money. The actress Marleen Scholten used his story as a basis for her monologue La codista. It turned into a story about waiting in line (‘la coda’), about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and about the impatience and desire that is a part of waiting. Scholten lives in Italy and for this project interviewed various Italians about how they experience standing still and what it means. In addition, the actress stood in line for hours, for example at the post office or the tax office, in order to experience for herself the mechanism of waiting. She found chaos and simplicity there, people coming together someplace with only one purpose: waiting their turn. La codista is a personal piece about identity and the desire to slow down sometimes. Scholten was awarded Italy’s Antonio Conti national playwright’s prize for the piece. ‘La codista’ waits her turn together with the audience. As of June 5, modified rules apply to venues with a capacity of less than 50 people. Audiences for La codista no longer need to be tested.
dates
Sun June 13 2021 8:00 PM
Mon June 14 2021 8:00 PM
Mon June 14 2021 10:00 PM
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Duration of performance unknown (zonder pauze)
