Ekalochanam (with a note by Ferdinando Taviani)

Abstract

The authors, respectively an actor and the director of the Teatro Tascabile of Bergamo, present a critical account of the Ekalochanam, of which they were witnesses during their stay in India. Ekalochanam is a technique which has now become a myth that only a few great actors are able to perform. It allows them to represent simultaneously two different or opposite passions with the two parts of their faces. This image is the supreme embodiment of the idea of the actor as not merely the performer of the action in the first person, but as the very field of action; not a character, but the seat of the characters, a living stage.