Ciro Gallorano won the Biennale College Theatre Award for directors under 35. His upcoming play is Crisalidi, a wordless show inspired by the life and work of Francesca Woodman, a prodigy photographer who died by suicide in 1981. She was only twenty-two years old. In Crisalidi, the eye – the audience – seems to peep through a keyhole, witnessing the liminal existence of woman portraying the archetype of female artist, defenceless and almighty at once, working on stopping and memorializing the flow of time. The bodies of two actresses, Sara Bonci and Andreyna De La Soledad, are sensuous, obscene, multiform, alienated. They hide, get absorbed by the atmosphere, and interact with the atemporal concept of incubation.
