"I wrote and directed Rumore di acque after several years spent in Sicily, presenting it for the first time at Ravenna Festival 2010. Since then that text has had a long life in Italy and abroad. I’ve read or seen or only heard the General take on different bodies and languages, and the envisaged metamorphoses are even more: in France, Germany, Romania, in the United States, from Chicago to New York and Oregon, and then in Brazil, in Chile, and in a unique “choral” version in Mons, Belgium, European capital of culture 2015, in the original edition with the musics by Fratelli Mancuso and finally in the present edition with the musics by Guy Klucevsek.
That monologuing general is actually a "medium", he is crossed by a population of voices and faces that lay siege to him, the people of the drowned, which not even his bureaucratic nature manages to reduce to mere statistics. The dead who make themselves heard through him: in spite of himself. The general is alone on his lost island in the Mediterranean, but he is surrounded by the dead who do not leave him in peace, who torment him, who cry out to be “remembered” not merely as numbers."
Marco Martinelli