Pascal Rambert's '3 Annunciations' at Triennale Milano

Pascal Rambert's '3 Annunciations' premiered at Triennale Milano in 2021, conceived as a triptych of monologues performed in darkness. The work features three actresses—Silvia Costa (Italian), Barbara Lennie (Spanish), and Audrey Bonnet (French)—each delivering a solo in her native language. The first act presents Costa as the Archangel Gabriel in a red costume recalling Beato Angelico's painting; the second features Lennie as a Spanish Madonna prophesying a violent new era; the third has Bonnet as a cyborg-astronaut figure embodying both mother and daughter in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The performance explores themes of perception, birth, ecological catastrophe, and the power of language. Rambert's text interrogates existence (Dasein) and the threshold between darkness and light, with costumes of great visual power. The production ran under the starry vault of Triennale's piazza, staged as a cosmogony that critiques Europe's complicity in planetary destruction. The article was written by Maria Paola Zedda.