Because of War, Lust and Love (2018)

'Because Of War, Lust and Love' is a classic Shakespearean drama based on the Irish legend 'The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne' and reinvented to suit one of the greatest pages in Irish history: The Easter Rising. The story is a classic love triangle, a woman between two warriors, two patriots pushed by similar feeling and ended up in a different spectrum of the human nature: one will be chewed by power and one will pay the price that war demand. Grainne, a strong woman attracted by those two sides, will keep walking toward the future to grow a new generation of men. The future is female. The idea was to tell this story in a different way that the classic tales. I want to break the circle and insert an idiosyncratic hero chose by destiny. I wanted to put in the story some anarchy to divert the ending toward something brighter and give to the audience a drama with some light shining on it. That's why we have Paolo Cortese. A sailor, a hero of the day that becomes as such because he was there at the right time and was pushed to do a simple thing like delivering a message, a symbol, from his boy scout morality. He believes in something, in nothing, and in everything. Paolo Cortese gave me the idea to use some of the Irish legends to create two characters outside of the story to tell it. Puca and Banshee are two spirits from the classics Irish tale, two Gods playing along destiny to give the right push to humankind. We always need a push to raise the better part of us.