MYSTERY IN TWO ACTS
WITH A PROLOGUE AND AN EPILOGUE
God (a little boy) plays with a flying drone with an apple hanging from it.
The drone with the apple flies around the audience hall.
Adam and Eve sleep in a hammock that hangs over a lowered orchestra pit.
From above, an apple fell on Adam's head.
Adam wakes up, writes Newton's law on the fire curtain:
F = G ∙ (m1 ∙ m2) / R²
It's a circular projection on a fire curtain.
Adam makes a hand gesture and the signs appear.
Adam fell asleep again.
An apple fell on Eve's head. She wakes up, tastes it.
Instantly everything changes.
MUSIC appears.
HARMONY.
Eve hears the sound of music for the first time.
Bach's Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio
Eve wakes Adam up and convinces him to taste the apple.
Adam tastes the apple and hears the music too.
Adam and Eve looked at each other. They studied each other.
Performance "Tree of knowledge".
Rameau: Les Boréades
God (the boy) makes a gesture, an orchestra appears from the "pit of nothingness" and slowly "floats out" of the orchestra pit in the smoke.
Adam and Eve notice no one, fascinated by the music, they make love.
Performance of "Passion".
God (the boy) sees Adam and Eve in an embrace and in ecstasy.
The musicians also looked at Adam and Eve.
A musical pause.
Only now Adam and Eve see the audience, the orchestra and... God (the boy)!
Adam and Eve ran away from each other.
The musicians' clothes are blue.
The floor on the stage is blue - it's blue grass and blue flowers around the orchestra.
Around them lie giant apples.
The harpsichord is in the bushes.
A garden of paradise.
Jean Philippe Rameau. Forêts Paisibles
Dry leaves and inflatable apples fell on the orchestra from above.
After Adam and Eve have tasted the forbidden fruit, the Garden of Eden dies.
Adam and Eve covered themselves with leaves.
But, God (the boy) throws Adam and Eve contemporary clothes.
Adam and Eve get dressed.
A man's world and a woman's world appear.
The road lights up
(centre aisle in the audience hall).
God (the boy) shows Adam and Eve the way.
They left paradise.
Music will now accompany and help humans in his life on Earth.
Zoroastre - Ouverture - Jean Phillipe Rameau
Performance of "Love and Evil"
On earth, Adam and Eve encountered goodness and evil.
This is the beginning of humankind's journey.
Childhood. First steps.
Adam and Eve fall, get up, walk again. They learned to walk.
A sandbox appears.
Eve builds towers out of the sand like a child.
Adam destroys Eve's tower and builds his own. Eve breaks Adam's tower.
Adam builds again...
"Tornami a vagheggiar" - Alcina by Haendel
Performance "The Game"
A bath on wheels appears, with transparent film and bottles of water inside. Adam and Eve cover the audience seated next to them.
They splash themselves with water.
They jump in puddles.
They teased the orchestra by throwing water at them.
The musicians hide under the film too.
Georg Friedrich Handel
«Lascia la spina»
Performance
"Knowledge of the World".
Adam and Eve, like children, learn that there is death on earth...
Eve brought Adam a chicken.
It grew into a big chicken.
Adam plays with it, feeds it, leads it on a leash. Then he plucks his chicken (replacing the chicken with a pillow).
Flies the fluff.
Eve brought a pot. Adam covers the chicken with a lid and puts it in the pot.
They wait and eat the soup.
And from some of the bones Eve makes her own jewellery.
John Dowland - Come again
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die.
Performance of "First Love".
Adam is in love with Eve.
He gave her flowers and fruit.
His advances were rejected.
Eve accepts the gifts, but keeps running away from Adam.
Eve teases him with her beauty.
Adam leaves Eve and kisses another.
Eve was shocked.
"Furie terribili" - aria from Händel's Rinaldo
Performance of "Jealousy".
Thunder.
Smoke.
Lightning (video projection).
The soloist in a hammock flew over the orchestra.
All the lights in the hall are blinking.
Eva avenges treason.
Chains Adam to the bath, harnesses him.
He rides Eve in the bath like a chariot.
He dragged his stone like Sisyphus. He's on a chain.
Adam is surrounded by women.
Henry Purcell
«If Love's a Sweet Passion»
Performance
"First time".
Adam collapsed without strength beside the chariot bath.
Eve freed Adam from his chains.
Carry him on her back. Heal him.
Adam wakes up.
Adam and Eve kissed.
Cover themselves with a sheet...
Semiramide riconosciuta (Porpora, Nicola Antonio)
Performance
"The Oblivion"
Cynicism, relationship troubles, family life.
Adam and Eve live in a luxurious, modern flat. Ikea...
But they're both dead.
Two dead people on the ground.
They sit across from their televisions and stare into an endless, empty space.
They don't communicate.
Eventually, Adam smashes the TV.
Georg Friedrich Handel "Piangero"
Performance of "The Pain".
Adam tormented Eve, mocking her.
She cannot move, there is no freedom.
Eve is chained.
Like Maria Abramovic, tortured.
A man without a spiritual life becomes a beast.
Sometimes he's capable of the worst.
Hence the concentration camps.
Henry Purcell Final - Timon of Athens
Performance of "Drunkenness".
Adam killed the God in him.
Eve lay down without strength.
Adam drinks, smokes.
A video projection appears in a circle on a fire curtain - a computer game of war, Adam plays.
Adam and Eve finally forgot who they were.
Henry Purcell Lamento Dido
Performance of "Loneliness."
Eve dies.
Adam buried her in the sandbox.
Place flowers.
Purcell: Evening Hymn
Performance of "Repentance".
The first remembrance of God.
Performing the ritual. Obedience.
Adam built a wooden cross.
Put it up. Paint it.
Eve gets up from the sandbox, looking at Adam.
It's snowing in the orchestra.
Winter has come.
Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Preliudas F-moll
Performance "Washing their feet".
Adam and Eve become old - a grandfather and grandmother (a pair of actors) appear on stage very similar to young Adam and Eve.
Young Adam and Eve wash the elderly.
They dress them in white clothes.
A fire starts.
Everything burns in the fire and is cleansed... Nothing is left behind.
Young Adam and Eve leave.
Johann Sebastian Bah
Repriza Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio
Adam and Eve (the grandparents) enter the stage where the orchestra sits.
They are met by God (the boy).
He asked what life on earth was like.
Playfully, he held out an apple for them.
Adam and Eve reach for the apple.
But God (the boy) ate it himself.
This is a gateway to the earth.
The boy is no longer "God the Father" but "God the Son" (Christ).
God (the boy) walks down the road (centre aisle in the audience hall) to earth.
Johann Sebastian Bach "Erbarme dich" - "St Matthew Passion"
Performance of 'The Crucifixion of Christ'.
In the distance stands the Cross.
It lights up.
God (the boy) walks slowly towards it.
A singer's voice came "out of nowhere".
God (the boy) approaches and looks at the Cross (an image of Christ crucified).
The child stands at the cross and eats an apple.
Turns to the audience, looks at them, smiles....
Antonio Vivaldi duchin Motet Sit Nomen Domini
Performance of "The Descent into Hell".
God (the boy) walks back to Adam and Eve, taking their hands.
A fire curtain opens.
There is a light in the distance (at the back of the stage).
God (the boy) takes Adam and Eve into the distance.
The orchestra slowly sinks back into the depths of the orchestra pit, into "nothingness".
Birdsong. Spring.
The circle is closed.
Slowly the lights fall away....
The end.