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What does heroin do to love? How toxic is family?
My father was a heroin addict. He entered the San Patrignano drug rehabilitation center when I was thirteen and left when I was eighteen. During that time, we couldn’t use phones or the internet—only pen and paper. We exchanged many handwritten letters in those years. I kept his. He, however, lost all of mine.
Tirannosauro is an attempt to rewrite those lost pages, completing an analog dialogue on the verge of extinction.
The words written by an addict to his teenage son form a giant fossil, a cumbersome skeleton resurfacing to be dusted off and examined—a tyrannosaur to “play answers” inside a fragmented, disjointed structure where the only rules are those of a small person at play. Is the small person a child in their bedroom with plastic dinosaurs, or is it their father locked in the bathroom shooting up? To construct these impossible answers, Filippo Quezel drew inspiration from artist Andy Kaufman. He was called a comedian, but Kaufman preferred to describe himself as a song and dance man. Once, in an interview, he said: “I am not a comic. I have never told a joke. The comedian’s promise is that he will make you laugh with him. My only promise is that I will try my best to entertain you.”

Bio 

Filippo Quezel studied at the Stella Adler Studio in New York. In theatre he has worked with Babilonia Teatri, Lucia Calamaro, Andrea De Rosa, Ferdinando Bruni, Francesco Frongia, Giuseppe Emiliani, Massimo Somaglino and Nicoletta Robello. For film and television he works with Luca Guadagnino, Simone Rovellini and Roberto Saviano. He wrote and directed the short film Tinder (audience award and special mention of the jury at Lago Film Fest 2022). He directed the documentary Non lo so selected at the 27th edition of Visioni Italiane and screened at the Cineteca di Bologna). He writes and directs the mise en espace T’ank you veddy much produced by TSV. He wrote and directed Tirannosauro produced by TSV and Sardegna Teatro. He collaborated with the international dance festival Prospettiva Danza Teatro. He collaborates with MOTUS as assistant director and videomaker in the documentary film ODIO produced by the Italian Council.

Credits

Written and directed by Filippo Quezel
Featuring: Elena Antonello, Caterina Benevoli, Filippo Quezel, Luca Galizia, Norman Quaglierini, Laura Serena
Produced by Sardegna Teatro and Teatro Stabile del Veneto
Company formed under the Maturazione 2022 open call

Duration

75′

Language/Subtitles

Italian

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