Tanto Poco

Thirty years of love and obstinate silence, an amorous crystallization, the exaltation of an unfulfilled mute passion, Tanto Poco, a novel by Marco Lodoli, is the first-person account of an ordinary woman, of those faded tiny lives, yet endowed with tragic grandeur.

She, a concierge, in the immobility of her life with the rooted certainty of an absolute and forever unspoken love, without regret, for a man, a literature professor, who will never know anything about this intense desire that drives her.

And this poignant first-person narrative, sharp writing refusing pathos, is spoken and performed with sensitivity and great delicacy by Cécile Garcia Fogel, who takes hold of this so beautiful and simple character with determination.

The emotional power of theater sometimes rests on very little, on the essential, on simplicity: a text, an actress, and nothing more. Tanto Poco holds that very power.