"Saragosa Manuscript", written by Jan Potocki, the model is built on the "1001 Nights". Walona guard captain, crossing France to reach the Spanish king Alfonso van Worden young lives, a journey without end, a variety of adventures: the servants leave him alone in a wilderness area and wildlife, found an inn where, midnight, is visited by two Muslim sisters who claim to be his cousins from the mother but in the end, we discover that they are demons. Waking up the next day as the two hanged after a night of love, hitting the way they meet young people who, somehow or other, have lived the same experience.
At the end of the millennium problem humanity has a name: the conflict between the major monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Saragosa speaks of hope and illusion. Hope that the world is an illusion and the illusion that we act upon reality, that man has power over the world and its own destiny.
Press Reviews
Irina Solomon and Dragos Buhagiar gave a special rhythm to the performance by alternating and marking spaces, plans, and directions, horiyontally, vertically and obliquely. Their costumes become a sign that describes places, religions, events. Light and music enhance the mystery and illusin of the theatre.
The actors do a real tour de force. They play their parts with voluptuousness, pleasure and devotion, taking over the director's irony, his talent to parody and his subtle humour. Well-known actors get into the chorus, or step out of it, play secondary or main characters, with genuine artists' humility and responsability.