Five years on from his hit piece Best Regards, Marco D’Agostin returns to solo performance with a daring one-man-show called Asteroide: for 90 minutes, he acts non-stop, sings and (of course) dances, displaying his exceptional skill. The premise works well: a paradoxically synesthetic blend of science (palaeontology and geology, to be precise) and the world of musicals, with their rules and ‘lightweight’ codes aimed at creating a surprise effect that inspires characters to suddenly break into song and dance.
Sixty-six million years ago in the Mesozoic, the arrival of an asteroid on our planet was equally unexpected. That crash in the Yucatan marked an abrupt division between the before and after of life on Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and launching terrestrial existence into the ...
