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STORIES OF REBIRTH
#5 Patrick Suskind -Perfume
Set in France during the 18th century, in which perfumes and smelly, dirty places are mixed and often intersect, the protagonist of thestory is a man with a characteristic that makes him anonymous and desperately looking for affirmation: he has no odour.
In return he discovers soon to be equipped with a formidable sense of smell, which enables him to create any kind of perfume. He can know the world through this so primitive and powerful sense, ofwhich most are unaware. The engaging storyline twists and turns and the novel soon becomes a noir when our main character becomes a serial killer, following the wake of a young girl’s perfume.
"...Because scent is the brother of breath. It penetrated men through it, none could resist to it, if they wanted to live... the one who dominated the smells, dominated the hearts of men. "
P. Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
TEA (Italian edition)
TALES IN MILAN
#5 Iliad by Corrado D'Elia
Few Milanese artists combine passion, intelligence, professionalism and poetry like Corrado D'Elia. From the thematic choice of works to be staged to his interpretations, everything expresses his immense passion for theater andf or his devoted audience. So, at least for the duration of the performance, the theater is full of emotions and complicity, time becomes less tyrant, giving us a bit of eternity.
The show “Iliad” is part of the author’s “Albums”,almost intimate and private stage events, intense and evocative stories thatreveal the archetypes of human nature. The actor and author brings on stage thedeep solitude, the torments, the aspirations of all of us, united under the logos of the ancient times.
History becomes the universal home of emotions, that every time makes us meditate onfate and on tragedy in the contemporary world.
Thanks Corrado D'Elia, thanks Milan!
Teatro Libero
Via Savona,10 - Milano
July 1st– 16th, 2016
ALCHEMY OF REBIRTH
This term was coined by the French chemist René Gattefossé around the ‘20;in those years the interest in the beneficial properties of plants and natural treatments intensified, starting from the study of the medicinal properties of lavender.
Aromatherapy can be considered as a branch of herbal medicine thatuses essential oils, i.e. the volatile and strongly odorants substances of plants. The oils are extracted usually using steam distillation: once cooled, the steam permits to separate the essential oil from water. The essential oils arecontained in specific structures within various organs of the plant.
The term “aromatherapy” has different meanings depending on the country in which it is used, but a commonly accepted definition would be this: “the use of essential oils for the maintenance of health or of the therapy”. Although aromatherapy is still far from being defined as a real therapy by thescientific community, its use is now widespread and often combined with color therapy to increase the subjective perception of well-being.
STORIES OF REBIRTH
#4 REINALDO ARENAS, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
This wonderful autobiography ofthe great Cuban intellectual Reinaldo Arenas tells us what it means to live inCuba, being an homosexual and writer, before and after the Revolution.
Arenas never gave up fighting for his freedom and he is remembered as an example of courage, as he was persecuted by the regime and by diseases until the end of his days.
A heartrending book, full of emotions, a story of dreams and fears, of passions and disappointments. A great hymn to friendship and freedom, to the hope of a country free from the oppression of dictatorship:
“I urge theCuban people in exile, as the inhabitants of the Island, to continue to fightfor freedom. My message is not pessimistic, it is a message of struggle and hope… ”
Reinaldo Arenas, Prima che sia notte
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