1 + 1 != 2. La strana coppia spettatore-attore e le sue iperboliche cifre

1 + 1 ≠ 2. The strange couple: spectator-actor and hyperbolic figures. The scene of the spectator is changing as all forms of life. The scene, where we take place, can be dark or lit, intimate or shared, voyeuristic or to testify. Whatever, we spectators are always on stage. The beauty, the touching, the scary, the ridiculous, exist only in the gap between us and the representation. In actual fact, the most intimate theatrical couple is constituted by the interaction between a spectator and an actor: a sum whose result is unpredictable. Pirandello showed all this outrageous way, so he taught us the difference between "theatre" and "show", because they are two words not interchangeable. The task of the viewer of a show is to understand it. The meaning ends into the illuminated scene. In the theatre scene, however, the meaning is in the gap between the representation and the audience, because much of the meaning still there if the viewer does not bring the portion that depends on him. This is why the theatre is always incomplete and none of its protagonists (author, actor, spectator) aims to reach more than half of the meaning and always for a time before last. The crisis of representation in the theatre experience, is an opportunity to return to its origins: a man who tells a story and another man who listens to him looking into his eyes. A 1 + 1 that provokes unimaginable figures.

Keywords: Spectator, actor, scene, stage, performance, theatre, show, representation, unfinished

Roberto Scarpa, 1 + 1 != 2. La strana coppia spettatore-attore e le sue iperboliche cifre in "EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE" 25/2016, pp 97-107, DOI: 10.3280/EDS2016-025009