On Saturday 12th April, at 8:30 pm, the Falcone-Borsellino Theatre will stage the Passion of the Christ. Not a story to listen to, not even a show performed by actors, not a video but a real scenographic performance that will reproduce in eleven Caravaggio-esque tableaux vivants the salient moments of the torment suffered by Jesus Christ before his death on the cross.
What are Tableaux Vivants? Literally "living pictures", they are stage performances in which real people recreate, while remaining still, paintings, historical or artistic scenes, as if they were part of a painting. They combine theater, art and photography in a very suggestive visual form. These shows were born in France in the eighteenth century, they spread in Europe in the following century, becoming popular in aristocratic living-rooms and then in theaters.
