Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Lthe scene is this: a man and a woman in front of a door. It’s almost nightthe Moon can only shine high in the sky.
There is some embarrassment: what can exist in that moment when you have to decide how the evening will end. The door belongs to her, it is she who holds the power to open it to both or only to herself. As long as he wants to advance the proposal to enter in some way.
The two look at each other, he takes her hand. An infinite number of possible combinations is all that separates them.
It is the moment: “I had a nice evening – she says with a half smile -. But it’s not this one».
The withering joke, that you can sell yourself if you’re naughty, I stole from Constellations by Nick Payne, text recently brought on stage by Elena Lietti and Pietro Micci.
A love story told with the laws of physicswhich stages the “string theory”, according to which everything we do or don’t do could be done or not done in the same way or in a different way in infinite parallel universes.
A theory that ensures the theatrical performance a script in which the scenes, representing the various stages of a relationship, can be repeated many timeswith different tones and/or with small variations in the beats, allowing us to glimpse different outcomes.
As if, in our case, she had only said, “I had a nice evening,” drawing him inside the door. The game, which works on stage, would like to relieve us of responsibility for our choices, suggesting that the decision we are making here and now is not the same one we made elsewhere and at another time.
And if all the variables are possible in the infinite parallel universes, the one that involves us at this moment matters little. Beautiful to think, difficult to practice.
Who would take a farewell lightly knowing that elsewhere and in another moment it is not such? If every universe that includes us traces a story in itself, there is no escape from today’s pain, because there is no compensation elsewhere and in another moment for what happens to us here and now.
Think about it next time, before being cruel in love.
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