Awarded with the prizes ‘Scenario for Ustica 2011’, ‘Premio In-Box 2012’ and ‘Premio Internazionale Tresa Pomodoro 2013’, Giuseppe Carullo and Cristiana Minasi put on stage Due passi sono, a delicate, ironic and gloomily-like-Beckett pièce. Trained at Teatro Teatès, directed by  Michele Perriera, and then at Vittorio Emanuele School of Theater, directed by Donato Castellaneta, an actor of Leonardo De Bernardini’s company, Giuseppe Carullo began to work, in 2009, with Cristiana Minasi – student of ‘L’isola della pedagogia’, an international school of High Scene Pedagogy directed by Anatolij Vasiliev (project awarded with the Special Prize UBU 2012). Due passi sono, first chapter of a trilogy that explores the concept of love through Simposio by Plato, draws a dialogue in which experiences, moods and desires are re-elaborated in an absolutely universal dimension. The two main characters on stage, locked in a corner with a black-and-white checked carpet under their feet that says “Hello”, tell their true story of a disease he suffered from and she has assiduously cared for. A dense network of pathological behaviors, psychosomatic and highly obsessive mutual attention. This fragile health is not but the health of all of us, we concern about only casually: Giuseppe and Cristiana, instead, mind about it to the breaking point, to the pure desire of life, of a hug, of a feeling. The desire of love between the two characters is strong; however, a hug between them can be lethal. A performance that surrounds itself with a suspended atmosphere between irony and tenderness, where creativity and human truth mix up together.

Two small human beings, a man and a woman, find themselves on the big stage of life, hidden in the mystery of their own life which reduces them into an increasingly and misshapen space. They seem to be locked in a metal and aseptic box, almost deaf to the beauties that they can potentially carry; but a “leap” – despite the soft legs – will open the custody of their chimes. Outside the box they live the dream of real life there is no more need to escape from, but just live with the grace and charm of someone who has learned to love the hunger, the disease, and therefore the limits of being. A holy, surreal and festive picture, the one of their wedding, where they will exchange wonderful intentions of poetry, as in a carousel of sounds, colors and confetti.

G. Carullo e C. Minasi

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Interview to Giuseppe Carullo and Cristiana Minasi by Mario Bianchi for Krapp’s Last Post

Cristiana Minasi and Giuseppe Carullo, biography