An acute reflection on female identity, Lady Grey is a monologue that collects the thoughts of a girl in search of the wild and profound energy of life. It is the story of a slightly nervous young woman who experiences an existence in fits and starts and without too many certainties. Over the course of the story, the story of Sabrina slowly emerges, a little girl who has to bring an object to school and tell what it represents for her. The effect is dramatic. The little girl brings herself, her body, into a denunciation of her claim to exist which is intertwined with the protagonist's impossibility of living and loving, in the constant search for a character who embodies her disappointments and uncertainties. Lady Grey is an immersion in language, a game of massacre pervaded with humor in which the sacrificial body is the word embodied by the actor, in this case a great Isabella Ragonese, red dress, shoes with vertiginous heels, a pair of glasses that scrutinize and size you up like certain teachers do, like short-sighted people do. But the myopia here is that of life, it is the impossibility of focusing, of finding meaning in existence, because there is no meaning. A surprising story that takes your breath away and questions you, a challenge with the public on a text where nothing is by chance. The author of the play, Will Eno, is one of the greatest playwrights overseas. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Edinburgh Fringe, he was recently defined by the New York Times as "the Beckett of the new century". His dense prose is a sort of "existential shopping list", made up of equal measures of love, sense of loss and witty humor. Isabella Ragonese, one of the most intense actresses of the new Italian cinema, returns to her first love - the theater - by competing with Eno's text in the double role of performer and director. His is a highly refined game of seduction, a continuous confrontation with the public, led to experiment with the limits of language and the (im)possibilities of the story.
Isabella Ragonese: Born in Palermo in 1981, Isabella Ragonese obtained a diploma in acting from the Teatès School in 2000. Actress and playwright, she has written, directed and performed in several of her works such as Che male vi fo, Bestino e Mamur. The transition to cinema occurs with Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese, which opens the doors to increasingly important roles. This is followed by Tutta la vita davanti (2008) by Paolo Virzì,Viola di mare (2008) by Donatella Maiorca, Due vite per caso (2009) by Alessandro Aronadio, Oggi sposi (2010) by Luca Lucini, Dieci inverni (2010) by Valerio Mieli. Her consecration took place with La nostra vita, the film by Daniele Luchetti whose performance earned her the Nastro d'Argento as best supporting actress. This was followed by leading roles in Un altro mondo (2010) by Silvio Muccino and in Il primo incarico (2010) by Giorgia Cecere. It will soon be in theaters with Il giorno in più, Massimo Venier's latest film. However, her success at the cinema does not prevent her from returning to the theater stage: in 2011 she directed and starred in Lady Grey, the monologue by New Yorker Will Eno.