Crusader Tancredi doesn’t recognize the Moorish fighter Clorinda, with whom he is in love, and kills her in a duel. In his text, Torquato Tasso introduced a narrator to tell the story of this fight. In the monologue Jerusalem Revisited, Erwin Mortier is looking for the motives of Mr T. -a man of Word and Image- who goes back to the spot where Tancredi and Clorinda fought.
This monologue will be combined with a sung interpretation of Claudio Monteverdi’s masterpiece Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, and a choreography by Roberto Olivan.
In search for the actual meaning of this drama and the role of the reporter, WALPURGIS is out there, on the battlefield between dance, music and theatre.
SECOND LIFE
The text Terug naar Jeruzalem/Back to Jerusalem was published by de Bezige Bij in 2006.
