Group project: Images and more direct speeches that might be used

These are some extracts that might be useful to enrich the script. The next step will be to organize them organically in the script and to define which one shall be directly said and which one shall be recorded and heard as sounds instead.

Inferno, Canto III

Virgilio to Dante:

“The things shall be known
to thee, when we stay our steps
Upon the joyless strand of Acheron.”

Charon:

“Woe to you, depraved spirits!
hope not ever to see Heaven: I come to lead
you to the other shore; into the eternal
darkness; into fire and into ice.
And thou who art there, alive,
depart thee from those who are dead.”

“By other ways, by other ferries,
not here, shalt thou pass over:
a lighter boat must carry thee.”

Virgil to Charon:

“Charon, vex not
thyself: thus it is willed there, where what

Is willed can be done: and ask no more.”

Observations:

The nature of the characters of Dante, Virgilio and Charon allows us to see a clear distribution of values:

Dante: life

vs.

Virgilio: death, Dante's (living being) guide

vs.

Charon: death, damned souls' guide towards eternal damnation

Hamlet, Act four, Scene VII

Laertes:

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord.
I have a speech o’fire that fain would blaze. But that this folly douts it.

Images related to the atmosphere we intend to create

We took in consideration the idea of exploiting the space as it was an aquarius, through which the audience can look at the performance happening inside.