THAT THEATRE COMPANY PROUDLY PRESENTS THE SCANDINAVIAN PREMIERE OF Marathon by Edoardo Erba
Translated by Colin Teevan.
with
Benjamin Stender and Rasmus Mortensen
Director: Ian Burns
Edoardo Erba was born in Pavia, near Milan, in 1954. His work has been performed at some of Italy’s top festivals: the Venice Biennale, the Taormina Festival, the Montepulciano Festival, the Todi Festival and has been represented in many important Italian theatres. He has been the winner of the most important prizes for Italian dramaturgy (Olimpici del Teatro, Riccione, Idi, Candoni, Salerno).
“Marathon”, his most famous work, has been translated in 17 different languages, and published in 7 countries.
“It’s nighttime. We’re on a country lane. Mark and Steve swap thoughts on life, love, death and sex while training for the New York marathon. This is a beautifully simple exploration of what it means to be alive and a show that gives another meaning to the phrase:
‘This is a show that will run and run’.”
Marathon is an unprecedented piece of theatre. It is an intense and well-written one-act drama that is a darkly comic metaphor for the fatiguing path of life itself.
This is as real as theatre can get. Intelligently written and filthily funny
“A metaphor for life itself. The nightmare to be fought” – THE GUARDIAN
“ A jewel of new Italian drama” – TIME OUT MAGAZINE
Benjamin Stender Rasmus Emil Mortensen
REUMERT WINNER 2014 RADA trained, debut on the
Danish stage
Friends of the Italian Institute of Culture are offered a reduced price of 120 DKK.
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