La festa

"A simplicity so strong and symbolic that it becomes a mirror for the complexity of life..."

- Corriere della Sera

In 1990, Spiro Scimone (Messina, 1964) and Francesco Sframeli (Messina, 1964) founded the Compagnia Scimone Sframeli. Since then, their works have been performed in France, the UK, Belgium, Spain, Canada, Portugal and Holland as well as at the leading European festivals.
Winners of The Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for their film, Due Amici, which they both directed and played in, they bring for the first time to Madrid this production about a father, mother and son. It relates the details of a day like any other, the same as the one before and the one after, in accordance with the cruel ritual of reciprocal indifference. The couple celebrate 30 years of marriage in the geometric space of a kitchen, the closed receptacle of the family microcosm. Each of the three characters recites their part. Ultra-short verbal exchanges, consisting of few words. In the form of music, jazz-like, over an altered rhythm that brings to the fore the frequent repetition and variations present in the same subject matter, the dialogue ends up sounding very much like an interrogation...