The Accademia degli Artefatti has been studying the mechanisms of communication for some time, where true and false meet and where the image of reality is created and deformed. Over the years, the works of Sarah Kane, Luigi Pirandello, Peter Handke and now Tim Crouch have been meeting places, ideal places for theatrical investigation. With My Arm and An Oak Tree he has created the Ab-Use project, two experiments but also two exercises in power expressed through language, defined by the British actor and dramatist’s corrosive writing. My Arm was Crouch’s first work. A thirty-year-old always searching for new challenges, or confirmation of his own existence, who exposes himself and talks about himself, with his left arm bent over his head, an unnatural position that has reduced it to a gangrenous protuberance. On stage a musician and his double, projected onto the screen, listen to improbable stories told by the actor, using objects borrowed from the audience.
by Tim Crouch
with Matteo Angius, Emiliano Duncan Barbieri
directed by Fabrizio Arcuri
video by Lorenzo Letizia
Accademia degli Artefatti
