Sonia Bergamasco is an Actress with a capital ‘A’, a pure “acting machine” (Carmelo Bene)
Alongside Carmelo Bene is the extraordinary Sonia Bergamasco, a little mechanical doll that slowly takes on Collodi’s entire bestiary. She laughs, she wiggles; her mouth and body are her only instruments of fascination. But the actress does not seem to miss being able to use complete facial expression (she is never without a mask onstage); on the contrary, she takes it to the limit, demonstrating enormous flexibility in her continuous transformation, her mechanical gait and her recreation of the allure and mystery of the tale. (Flavia Bruni, il Secolo d’Italia)
Dulcis in fundo (saving the best for last), the skill and mastery of the body, the ear, the sense of rhythm and the grace of Sonia Bergamasco, who gives movement and disquieting truth to all the characters who are not Pinocchio. (Rita Sala, Il Messaggero)

She won the 2012 National Theater Critics' Best Actress Award

Image Karénina
open rehearsals in unhappiness

by Emanuele Trevi and Sonia Bergamasco
from the works of Lev Tolstoy

with: Sonia Bergamasco
director: Giuseppe Bertolucci
lighting design: Cesare Accetta
costume: Metka Kosak
produced by: Teatro Franco Parenti - Milano
in collaboration with Centro Culturale Il Funaro
Teatro Franco Parenti - Milan
Watch excerpts from the performance
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