Teatro di Roma Presents THE LAST SEVEN WORDS OF CARAVAGGIO

Teatro di Roman presents The Last Seven Words of Caravaggio from April 14 to 25, 2010. Written and directed by Ruggero Cappuccio. With Lello Arena and Claudio Di Palma.

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In Ultime Sette Parole di Caravaggio (The Last Seven Words of Caravaggio), Ruggero Cappuccio details the delirium of the great artist desperate with himself at the depth of a confession provoked by impending death. The artist is hunted by seven women nicknamed "sirens", a gypsy group of Sicilian-Calabrian women experienced in a criminal life gripped with just as much despair.

Commissioned by political and religious powers to eliminate Caravaggio, they will play the role of his Judas in exchange for amnesty of their past crimes.

In the last hour of his life, Caravaggio paints his last masterpiece, weaving a symphony of blunt and dreamy words with his servant and his murderesses, and writes his scornful will, in a witches' Sabbath, of sounds of ancient Italian spoken and written, of the pressing cutting music of Neapolitan and Sicilian words, acuminated to speak of the heaven and hell that surround the solitude of living and dying.

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