"In a Room" emerges from the convergence of musical composition (Francesco Cuoghi), live electronics, live video (Francesco Sardella) , and performance theatre within a single scenic space, where sound, image, and spoken word come together to create an immersive experience.

The dramaturgy is based on texts dealing with the deprivation of freedom, yet it does not seek to portray imprisonment. Instead, it transforms that condition into a lived sensory experience. The musical score weaves together the acoustic sound of the classical guitar with electronic processing and granular synthesis, creating a continuous process of sonic transformation.

Visually, Francesco Sardella / ZardoX develops a gradual metamorphosis of the space. A dimly lit room is gradually marked by scratches and streams of colour that accumulate layer upon layer until the stage becomes a dense material field, within which the human figure continues to pulse like a shadow. In the final scene, the painted matter dissolves and the room returns to darkness, completing the cycle.

The body retains its own autonomy: it is the gesture that generates sound and the voice that gives life to the text. Even when fragmented, multiplied, or dissolved through images and electronic processing, it preserves an irreducible presence.

In a Room does not depict a room; it adopts it as a metaphor for an existential condition. Physical space gradually becomes mental space, where the boundary between inside and outside, reality and imagination, progressively dissolves. Within this tension, the deprivation of freedom is not merely a theme but a perceptual condition that permeates sound, image, and the body, ultimately opening the possibility of a different way of seeing.