Biography

Leonardo Tomasi (1996) works in theater as an actor, director, and playwright. He has collaborated with various theater companies as an actor, author, and organizer, including SardegnaTeatro, Batisfera, L'Effimero Meraviglioso, Meridiano Zero, and Nuovo Teatro Sanità. He trained in various workshops and advanced training programs (ERT/Laika Theater of Senses; IDRA Factory; Progetto Te.S.eO.- TSV; Formazione Continua - SardegnaTeatro), and he's part of the MA in Performing Arts at SKH in Stockholm. He participated in creative residency programs such as R-evolution and DeStructura, developing works in collaboration with various groups and artists. In 2023, he won Premio Scenario with his show anonimasequestri.

Artistic project

QUEUE is a participatory performance project exploring the theme of expectation through a familiar social structure: waiting in line. A group of spectators forms a line in front of a door. During the wait, a performer interacts with the public through an information desk, introducing small tasks and exchanges that gradually develop the dramaturgy. 

Through brief dialogues, written notes, documents to fill in, and audio signals, participants are invited to perform simple actions: changing their position in line, collaborating with others, or following instructions related to the objects they receive. Each person approaches the desk and receives a different indication, generating a shifting set of rules and relationships within the queue.

In everyday life and in nature, queues organize access, time, and hierarchies: at the post office, in supermarkets, at public offices, and in ants. In QUEUE, this structure is displaced into an unexpected context and turned into a performative device, replacing the event with its anticipation. Blending game design and performance art, the project invites participants to investigate waiting as a social and bodily experience. What are we waiting for? What do we hope to find on the other side? And at the end: was it worth the wait?

Format: participative performance

Size of audience: 20-50 people 

Specific location: a space where lines do not usually form, or by other crowded lines. This could mean everywhere in the urban space.

Timing/duration: one hour during daylight