That's Enough, Emma Dante

For anyone who (wisely) passed over her CarmenLa Scala debut last month, there's another chance to catch Emma Dante, the ~edgy~ (and when we say ~edgy~ we're referring to Dante's un-ironic affectation of a Ralph Macchio 1984 Karate Kid rattail) director's stage work. Le Pulle (Palermo slang for "Whores") opened in Napoli last year and makes its way to Milan. The "operetta amorale" features a squad of trannies (and a troupe of blow-up dolls) and their conversations about lace, sequins, corsets, and ostrich feathers. This actually sounds much better than the thought of suffering through her Carmen again.

NSFW photos under the cut...

  

Comments

[vale]

Well, if you really wanna suffer they're doing THAT Carmen again in September...
Fotos above look like something out of 1968 off Broadway. Has this Dante woman ever travelled outside of Italy? Does she know anything about the history of theater?

[Sim]

This woman is just bad. She's a stereotype of all the bad stereotypes of dated European directors. Let's hope her Carmen was a fluke and she fades into obscurity. Sooner rather than later.

[Piceas]

O.C., you didn't even link the worst of the photos from her website. What filth!

[walter]

Just what you've always wanted to see... a bunch of "liberated" sicilians sitting around nude onstage with the usual cross in the background!
So "modern"!

[bonzik]

I'm afraid the comments above are the expression of prejudices.
The operetta is about male prostitutes in southern Italy: their life, hard times and hopes (including marriage). It isn't just "filth" or "modern", and you should not judge a show by its images...

[Lily]

I have a feeling that Dante thinks Fellini's Satyricon is the highest expression of art. Mixing near-pornographic scenes of carnal low life with symbols of Christianity is a rather simplistic use of imagery. And of the meaning of religion.
Also, for some of us, these religious symbols have little weight. We don't feel the hot breath of a guilt-inducing church breathing down our necks and telling us that all human desires are sin.