To mark its 35th anniversary, Icaro, Daniele Finzi Pasca’s iconic work, returns to the LAC to take the audience into the mind of a dreamer. Since its creation in 1991, the show has been performed over 800 times, reaching more than 280,000 spectators in 25 countries and in various languages, and has received international acclaim.

“Icaro,” explains Daniele Finzi Pasca, “was created quickly and rehearsals lasted just two months. Afterwards, I continued to refine it. It is a simple show, just like the stories my grandmother used to tell. She taught me the secret to making gnocchi and apple tart, precious recipes that I have subsequently used systematically in my theatrical creations. [...] My grandmother, who never left her kitchen, discovered the world by inviting her family to eat. I prepare my shows as if they were stories that must be told whilst looking the audience in the eye.
In Icaro I wanted to speak of hope by bringing to life an anti-hero, made of the same stuff as each of us, which we often lose and which only sometimes, for a moment, we manage to overcome. I do theatre for the pleasure of being shipwrecked, of losing myself for a moment, one of the healthiest things there is in life. One loses oneself just as one runs away. An inner escape reveals to us who we are. [...]
For an actor, a performance is sometimes one of those places where they can escape into themselves. These are stories told so that we may find ourselves changed each time. I do theatre to make it rain in the eyes of others; a sort of moist massage for the soul. Tonight I hope to make it rain in your eyes.”