Program Fira B! 2025
On the difficulty of telling the truth
ErosAntEros
On the difficulty of telling the truth is a performance based on a literary-political essay written by Bertolt Brecht titled Writing the truth: five difficulties, written in 1934, after Hitler’s rise to power. ErosAntEros decides to divulge this text together with some poems by the same author, in a performance concentrated on sound and voice, with the vocal presence of Agata Tomšič and the live electronics by Davide Sacco, and on the visual aspect with the projection of reality images by the photographer Michele Lapini, a sensitive observer of the social, environmental and political issues that characterize today’s world.
Technical sheet:
- Based on the literary-political essay Writing the truth: five difficulties by Bertolt Brecht
- translation by Bianca Zagari
- concept and direction Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros
- texts Bertolt Brecht
- stage adaptation Agata Tomšič
- live electronics Davide Sacco
- production ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival
- copyright Suhrkamp Verlag AG Berlin courtesy of the Agency Danesi Tolnay
ErosAntEros
Genre: Performance
Since 2010 ErosAntEros has been developing an aesthetic-political theatre that manipulates
different sources and expressive languages, with the aim of linking theatre to life and making
imagination a tool to transform reality. In 2022 Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco develop a new
project, which focuses on one of the central themes of their latest international and multilingual
production CONFINI: the environmental catastrophe, pollution and exploitation of planet Earth by
man, and the future survival of life forms on it.
