HISTORIA DE IMPOSIBILIDAD

Based on the text by Neapolitan playwright Fabio Pisano, Agostina Luz López has set up a play with Italian actors as part of a residency organized by Beyondthesud in an artistic exchange between Italy and Argentina.

“Una Storia di Impossibilità” is a drama in a single act, which tells the story of a couple, whose names are UNO and MOGLIE, and his best friend, ZERO.

UNO and WIFE are recently married, and he reveals that he cannot have children, that he is “sterile”, probably due to the use of drugs done at a young age. The two face the problem with great pain and try, initially, to find a solution when UNO has an idea: to make ZERO conceive his son, his best friend, a friend of his time, known years before. UNO and ZERO meet, and after knowing everything, ZERO agrees to conceive a child with WIFE; he does it because of the enormous affection he feels for ONE, he does it, out of a love he never confessed to try for him. But the story takes a different, unexpected turn. MOGLIE senses a special attraction for ZERO, for her husband’s best friend, an attraction perhaps also fueled by fertility, the possibility of conceiving a child. ONE goes into crisis, a silent crisis, silenced for the love of WIFE and for the love of this child who is about to be born, who kicks, and kicks and kicks.

A few hours before the birth, however, UNO and ZERO meet, to close the matter with a murder. ONE can’t stand to know ZERO alive. AND ZERO, agree to be killed before the baby is born. After the murder, UNO, obstetrician, runs to be there for the birth; the child, however, is born without legs. WIFE does not want to keep him, but ONE feels that he loves this malformed child, the son of a love that characterizes a story of impossibility. They will keep the child; he will grow it like his son and decides to draw the moment, the first moment in which WIFE holds it in his arms. In the text there is a character, the DIDASCALISTA, who links the various scenes (which do not follow a precise temporal order) through a direct explanation to the public of what happens.