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La vegetariana
Daria Deflorian
Running time 120'
Considered one of the most original voices in Italian and European theater, Daria Deflorian brings to the stage the mysterious story of Yeong-hye, the main character in The Vegetarian, the novel that brought the South Korean writer Han Kang - Nobel prize for Literature 2024 - to the awareness of the Italian public. It is a novel full of powerful images and disturbing questions: the radical refusal of a woman who chooses not to eat meat any longer sets off a gradual process of metamorphosis. As Yeong-hye changes, seeking to become plant-like herself, the whole world that surrounds her is affected by the impact of her transformation. Humanity is harmful, murderous, violent, all the things that Yeong-hye doesn’t want to be. She doesn’t want to stop living. She wants to stop living like us.
Daria Deflorian is an actress, author and theater director. She won the Premio Ubu 2012 for best actress and was awarded the Premio Hystrio in 2013. From 2008 to 2021 she shared projects with Antonio Tagliarini and their performances throughout Italy and Europe have won many awards: the Premio Ubu for best new Italian play in 2014, the award for best foreign production in Canada in 2015, the Premio Riccione for innovation in the theater in 2019 and the Premio Hystrio for best stage play in 2021. In 2020 she collaborated with the visual artist Adrian Paci, writing the words and providing the voice for Vedo rosso, a video work that was part of the international Mascarilla 19 project. Together with the group Oceano Indiano/Teatro di Roma, she launched Radio India during the pandemic, which won the Premio Ubu in 2021 for special project. She wrote and directed the final year performance for students of the La Manufacture international theater school in 2022 with En finir, from Changer Method by Edouard Louis, and in 2023 Elogio della vita a rovescio, the first part of a biennial project based on La Vegetariana.
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Credits
scenes from the novel by: Han Kang
adaptation: Daria Deflorian and Francesca Marciano
a co-creation with: Daria Deflorian, Paolo Musio, Monica Piseddu, Gabriele Portoghese
scenes: Daniele Spanò
lights: Giulia Pastore
sound: Emanuele Pontecorvo
costumes: Metella Raboni
artistic advice in the realization of the scenes: Lisetta Buccellato
project collaboration: Attilio Scarpellini
technical direction: Lorenzo Martinelli with Micol Giovanelli
intern: Blu Silla
assistant director: Andrea Pizzalis
direction: Daria Deflorian
for INDEX: Valentina Bertolino, Elena de Pascale, Francesco Di Stefano, Silvia Parlani
an INDEX production
in co-production with: Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale; La Fabbrica dell'Attore - Teatro Vascello in chorealization with Romaeuropa Festival; TPE - Teatro Piemonte Europa; Triennale Milano Teatro; Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe; Festival d'Automne à Paris; théâtre Garonne, scène européenne - Toulouse
with the collaboration of ATCL / Spazio Rossellini; Korean Cultural Institute in Italy
with the support of MiC - Ministry of Culture
copyright © Han Kang 2007
copyright © Adelphi 2016
Daria Deflorian - La vegetariana (Trailer) © Andrea Pizzalis
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