THE
BUTTERFLY TRIAL
matilde
politi
on freedom and self determination
sex and joy
judgement and guilt
truth
stigma
conviction and blame
deception
therapy and treatment
“I
didn’t know that freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is
celebrated with champagne. Nor yet a gift, a box of dainties designed
to make you lick your chops. Oh, no! It’s a chore, on the contrary,
and a long-distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. No
champagne, no friends raising their glasses as they look at you
affectionately. Alone in a forbidding room, alone in the prisoner’s
bog before the judges, and alone to decide in face of oneself or in
the face of others’ judgment. At the end of all freedom is a court
sentence; that’s why freedom is too heavy to bear, especially when
you’re down with a fever, or are distressed, or love nobody.”
(A.Camus, The Fall)
Freedom
is condamned in this world as an obscene act.
To
be acted in private. To be judged publicly.
First
of all, sexual freedom, condamned by morality coming from all
monotheistic religions.
Becouse
sexual pleasure, that is joy, is the only free source of power: you
cannot steal it, you cannot accumulate it, you cannote capitalize it.
Sexual pleasure is popular, universal, revolutionary, and it menace
those holding the power and the privilege and the control.
The
Butterfly, female sexual pleasure, is killed everyday, in order to
maintain the system.
Then,
it's a matter of choice.
Freedom
to choose to live free, or slowly die as a slave without your power
to be happy, to be gay.
Presumption
of guilt, instead of presumption of innocence: the butterfly is under
judgement in the courtroom, becouse of her self determined choice in
her sexual life, becouse of her freedom. They call her slut, the
jury, the public prosecutor, and she has to pay for this. She likes
to be a slut, she chose.
Then
she does not care, in front of the Judge she is dancing and singing
and laughing, together with all the other accused, those who chose
their way, migrants, sex workers, free lovers, trans and gay,
addicted of any sort, willing to die softly, suiciding themself
through love instead of killing others with blame and stigma. Those
who chose freedom every day.
They
will be condamned, while they are already dead.
You
will not know if we are in the netherworld, waiting for the Last
Judgement, or in a law court, waiting for the social and human
verdict, or inside our conscience, waiting for our personal
condemnation.
THE
MUSICAL:
the
script uses different languages, italian, english, french, spanish,
greek, dialects.
The
lyric languages follow the style of the music, which is always
danceable, and split from one cultural tradition to another, such as
South Italian traditions, South American cumbia, Western African
mandingue tradition, greek zeibekiko, North American blues and pop,
and so on.
The
dances follow the music, with its splitting, then also dance is
always joy, as it is often some translation of sexual initiation