BRAINROT (2026) 


realised as research outcome of II year PhD research - XL Cycle (2024-27) “Theatre of Reality: Performing Arts and New Media”
Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico, Rome, Italy

fellowship co-funded by

Teatro Stabile di Torino - National Theatre
Accademia Albertina Belle Arti di Torino, Italy


première 

Teatro India - Teatri di Roma | National Theatre (October 2026)


credits
conception and direction / Maria Luigia Gioffrè
dramaturg / Francesca Santamaria
with performers /
Alberto Baraghini, Grazia Capraro, Francesco Cassandra, Giorgia Fagotto Fiorentini, Chiara Serafini
sound design and live music / Beatrice Zanin
multimedia digital design Cristina Sabato


trailer 
https://vimeo.com/1232470619/bb66aca202?fl=tl&fe=ec&share=copy


An exploration of temporality and online identity, suspended between the desire to elude the form and the need to inhabit a mask.
A carousel of lazzi as semiotic debris of a reality marked by fractured hermeneutics, intermittent perceptions and reproducible subjectivities. A comic tragedy of twenty-first century medial language.
Together with the five performers on stage, there has been developed a dramaturgy marked by the algorithmic logic. Combinations, recombinations, virality of reels unfold into the bodies on stage, who are left with no language but that of their own digital double. 
Echoing and addressing the disordered attention described by Claire Bishop, the performance extends the logic of the feed from the act of watching to bodily expression. The stage becomes therefore a field of overlapping temporalities and rotten narrative, where attention participates (or not) in the construction and dispersal of realities.




                                                                                                                       

                                       2026  © Maria Luigia Gioffre