Uma Pessoa: Fernando «além do espelho»

Abstract

This article recounts the origin and the artistic and philosophical presuppositions that make “una persona. Ovvero come Fernando scoprì di essere stato Luigi”, the ensemble performance which premiered at Napoli Teatro Festival in July 2020. The actor, with the artistic complicity of six musicians, weaves the weft of a poetic and musical journey through the multiplicity of the human being, expressed and recorded in the texts of Fernando Pessoa and Luigi Pirandello. The two were contemporaries, poetically alike but they never met; provocatively and ironically, we want to allude to the hypothesis that their physical encounter was never possible because the two had in fact been one person, the same person. On the set, conversing with the actor, is the music, the element which, through subtle hints, evocative melodies, original compositions and traditional songs, defines moods, emotions and every non‑spoken sound which is portrayed in the life and the resonating, wonderful lyrics of the two writers.