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Plan B's Di Esperienza: Leonardo da Vinci brought to life
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Leonardo da Vinci had a mind that encompassed the entire world, making it sometimes hard to see the very real man lost in the center of it.
In Plan-B’s “Di Esperienza,” running now until April 19, some of da Vinci’s most well known subjects – La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), Judas Iscariot (“The Last Supper,”) and a sketch of Isabella d’Este (known as the first Lady of the Renaissance) – offer a glimpse of the legendary artist as a man with the same doubts, fears, and insecurities as the rest of us.
The phrase “Tell me if anything has ever been achieved?” appear throughout da Vinci’s notebooks, and it’s a question he and his art attempts to answer throughout the course of the play. The three works, which narrate the play, represent personal failures for da Vinci – Mona Lisa was never delivered to his patron, Judas gave him trouble throughout the painting process, and he never finished the painting of d’Este as promised.
“Di Esperienza,” which was developed in partnership with The Leonardo and Utah Shakespearean Festival’s New American Playwright’s Project, is the third play in an entirely original season that Plan-B commissioned from playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett. All the tickets up to and including the April 11 performance have already been sold out, which means that you need to grab your tickets now if you want your chance at getting a look at the man behind some of the world’s greatest works of art.
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