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"You have to laugh. It is a tragedy in three movements: The Thighs, The Dick, The Fame and a counter-movement: Italy. An actress creates a physical and vocal mask challenging a provocative, scandalous and beastly text. Words might be sung, howled and shrieked but a chant never emerges. In her naked physicality she tells a personal story in an unbroken flow of thoughts/words rendered as sounds and movement. The deafening screams being choked. Appeased. Imploded. This female onstage offers herself up in a feast, ready to be torn apart by anyone. A poetic piece born of the flesh that returns to the flesh, captured in a tightly-sealed aesthetic. Applause required. The Shit is driven by a desperate attempt to pull ourselves out of the mud, the latest products of the cultural genocide aptly described by Pasolini since the modern consumer society began taking form. A totalitarianism, according to Pasolini, even more repressive than the one of the Fascist era, because it's capable of crushing us softly" A century later, Loretta's great great grandson Kalil leaves his East African homeland to start a life in England. He dreams of respect and the good life for his family but, as it did for his ancestor, fate intervenes."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Shit/La Merda
• Author: Cristian Ceresoli
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9781849434102
• ISBN: 1849434107
• ID: 01249294
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 92 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 171 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. June 2012

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