Bizarra is the first theatre-soap in the world. It was written by the Argentine author Rafael Spregelburd in 2003. It was set in Merlo, a suburb located in the greater Buenos Aires urban area, during the great crisis in 2001. The Italian director Manuela Cherubini directed the opera in Italy. The scene was still set in Merlo but Cherubini introduced many local elements to refer the opera to the Italian politic and life.
This “saga” lasts 10 episodes that are formed by Tableau. Each Tableau is defined with a different bottom screen and a different time.
In January 2011 the company put on the entire theatre-soap within 10 days, one episode a day. The Bizarra Marathon. These pictures were taken during the backstage of the whole marathon.

The project shows the relation time/creative-recitative process through photographic medium. The attention focuses on the real duration to catch the acting perform. In specific, I considered the single Tableau otherwise the long expositions would confuse the different screens with the actors on the stage. As the Bergson’s Duration concept, the pictures show the scene (tableaus) with no interruptions. In the images everything is constantly new and everything is recorded at the same time. I did not emphasize the graduated duration of the different tableaus. It is only depicted by the natural dissimilar exposition that has produced darker or brighter images.