Baraonda

Gruppo UROR, founded by Evelina Rosselli and Caterina Rossi, develops a research in which body, mask, and stage device intertwine with a strong literary and philosophical matrix. With Baraonda, freely inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu cocu, the collective engages with political grotesque and the farcical persistence of power. The performance absorbs Jarry’s absurdity in order to reveal its structural violence: under the blinding light of the spotlights, power no longer needs to hide and exposes itself in all its vulgarity, while every form of resistance appears increasingly faint. Baraonda lays bare a mechanism that repeats itself obstinately, where violence and childish play, ridicule and domination merge into a stage machine inhabited by two masked bodies and automata—presences both alive and already dead. Is there still a space in which to escape repetition?