Where do unfulfilled dreams end up? What tortures are they subjected to?

There are threads that follow invisible paths. Spider webs, signs of the future. Arachnomancy.

The story of a jester, a queen, and her boredom, their dreams, their nightmares, their escape from a grotesque, ironic, and cruel world. "Once upon a time there was a king.....there was once a king and a queen...there was once a king, a queen...and a tree of bats..."

A bizarre tale, but just enough to escape the daily tortures endured like a repetitive game played out who knows how long ago. The attempt of both queen and fool to escape the prison that enslaves them and leads them to pursue their own cherished dream, which manifests itself to ignite illusions or extinguish them forever. A disguised dream, a silent dream, that ends where the fear of emptiness ends.
Freely...very freely adapted from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, searching among its atmospheres with a "sense of irresponsibility".
The show debuted in the 2011 "Teatro ravvicinato" festival at the ArciTeatro C.Simonetta in Milan.