Nonverbal staging with puppets, objects and masks
The main character in Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (The King Amuses Himself), which was censored by the monarchy of the time immediately after its premiere in 1832 for political and moral reasons, is the court jester Triboulet, whose daughter Blanche is kidnapped to serve as mistress to the king, who wants to make use of the droit de seigneur.
Another father, Monsieur de Saint-Vallier, whose daughter has also been summoned to the king, was previously mocked by Triboulet, whereupon the father cursed him. The curse ends up being accidentally fulfilled on the court jester's beloved daughter by his own hand.
Teatro Strappato takes up the classic and places the still topical core of the story of the eternal struggle for power and the human being trapped in the system at the center of its adaptation.
In the contemporary rediscovery, the character of Triboulet lives in a world where goodness seems to be a hypothetical past, a longing or a dream. The other characters that populate this story are also both perpetrators and victims of a hungry system. To survive, each:r must use ingenuity to manipulate others and make them controllable.
Nonverbal staging with puppets, objects and masks
