81. Venice Film Festival
80. Venice Film Festival
79. Venice Film Festival
The Biennale Arte Guide
Foreigners Everywhere
The Biennale Architecture Guide
The Laboratory of the Future
The Biennale Arte Guide
Il latte dei sogni
“Verbal violence and live sex. Audience are free to leave the theatre at any moment.” This notice appears before the staging of Lithuanian-American director Yana Ross’ show, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – 22 Types of Loneliness, adapted from David Foster-Wallace’s cult novel of the same title.
Ross violates all taboos, and she is the first director to stage Wallace’s work using a female cast. Those ‘nasty men’, those ‘junkies’ are depicted in feminist perspective, in a staging so deliberately provoking that Ross employed porn industry professionals to investigate the themes of masculinity, sexuality, perversion, loneli- ness, old age and to penetrate what is often unspeakable intimacy
