Written by Angela Dematté, L’estasi della lotta returns to the stage, an intimate and personal project by Carlotta Viscovo, a Turin-based actress who for years has been a spokesperson for workers in the performing arts, whose life echoes that of the French sculptor Camille Claudel. Two artists who cannot reconcile two things: the ambition tied to their art and the yearning for truth and justice.

On stage is a body that becomes a sculpture and engages in dialogue with sculpture. Behind and alongside this, the concrete, everyday words and images—logical and powerful—of a life both present and past: that of Carlotta and her trade union struggles.
A character who traverses Carlotta and Camille. A character who explores the relationship between body and protest, between the intimate dimension and the political role of the artist, between art and the market, ambition and self-sabotage.
Words alone, as a tool of struggle, are not enough; we must return to the body, make it vibrate with its power, to reach ecstasy.
“Viscovo brings his suffering to the stage, launching scathing j’accuses at the audience, guilty of viewing the world through the lens of stereotype, of not wanting to be unmasked by art. All this might at times seem gratuitous, but it is layered, never trivialised. And, above all, it is experienced entirely through the body” (Laura Di Corcia, Corriere del Ticino)