Genre
First Performance 02/04/2009
Closing 10/04/2009
Running Time 10 mins (walk through installation)

Paradiso is a short installation experience.

Presented as three separate events – Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso – Romeo Castellucci has dismantled, exposed and transformed Dante’s Divine Comedy into a truly lived experience.

Using a profoundly visual style, Castellucci creates a deeply unsettling world forcing audiences into a hauntingly beautiful nightmare, engaging the senses in an experience you are unlikely to forget. This is highly visceral theatre, not for the faint-hearted.

In an intimate walk-up installation experience, Paradiso sets up the ultimate frame where the viewer and the viewed are placed in a direct relationship with each other. This is paradise as a transient moment.

A large-scale work that questions our entire human condition, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso has a company of over 60.

Romeo Castellucci’s work is considered by artists and audiences worldwide to be highly influential in contemporary performance. Having created a new non-narrative theatre, a visual language that directly challenges traditional forms, Castellucci’s visionary work is uncompromising and always surprising.

Paradiso contains material that could be considered disturbing, so is suitable for theatregoers aged 18 and older.

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