It was November by Daniel Proietto

“The purgatory is a room or a state of suffering inhabited by the  souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven”. The room in “It was November” has a purgatorial atmosphere.

We can see the 7  characters in the piece (the sinners) entering and exiting a room  through a small door. Sometimes they bring different props with them,  things they may care about or things that may help them shape their  personalities, their history.

Once they are inside, they go  through different emotions and states as if trying to get rid of them,  cleaning their souls and their past. The journey takes 7 days, (the 7  days in which god created the Universe?) But the performance seems to be more about destruction than creation.

Purgatory to me is chaos and chaos is the formless matter that was supposed to have existed  before the creation of the Universe. So purgatory to me is like coming  back to a place where the Universe didn’t exist, a place without order.

And clearly, there is no order in this show.

Some  characters seem concerned about what they have left behind, to their  sons and their future. Did they do anything that is relevant for  humanity? If so, what?

As the piece goes along, they rearrange  the space, but the purgatory is not a house, no matter how good it looks there is only shit inside…

The characters wonder about the  last part of the collection.
Which collection? Where is the  collection? What is it?
I can read one clear collection in the  piece, the seven deadly sins collection.
Is that the “high value”  they left to mankind?
Is that what we do? We come to the World; we  sin and leave (pass on) that “treasure” to our future generations?
Then hopefully, we will teach them as well that when they go through the  purgatory’s door (maybe our own consciousness? / in which we are  supposed to clean our souls) they should put on their best appearance,  even if they have to fake it. If not, the door to heaven (the release  from our sins) remains closed. And after all, don’t we all want to go to heaven?

But in “It was November” will Saint Peter open the  goddamn door?
Or did the performers sign a contract with the devil?

Characters:
Morten Cranner as Morty The Devil (Lust -  for humanity)
Pia Elton Hammer as Pia The Blind (Sloth - do not want to see)
Asher Lev / Dimitri Jourde as Peter The Hunter (Anger -  moose slaughter)
Cecilie Lindeman Steen as God is in the details  (Envy - of the devil)
Daniel Proietto as Benito The Prodigal Son  (Vanity - catholic forever)
Kristina Søetorp as Maria Magdalena The  Girl (Gluttony - for dresses)
Line Tørmoen as Lily The Thieve (Greed  - to have what we have & for a carpet).