Warum Warum
A theatre research by Peter Brook
Salone delle feste, Correggio (RE)
11/10/2008
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21:00
12/10/2008
, 16:00
13/10/2008
, 21:00
Text Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne
Based on texts by Antonin Artaud, Edward Gordon Craig, Charles Dullin, Wsewolod Emiljewitsch Meyerhold, Zeami Motokiyo and William Shakespeare
German translation Miriam Goldschmidt
Directed Peter Brook
Director’s assistant Julia Heinrichs
With Miriam Goldschmidt
Music Francesco Agnello
Musician Francesco Agnello
Lighting Philippe Vialatte
Design assistant Marlene Baldauf
Costume assistant Verena Lachenmeier
Artistic cooperation Lilo Baur
Production Schauspielhauses Zürich
Production managers Eric Bart, Matthias Wyssmann
Coproduction Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo / Bart Production s.à.r.l.
Tour Manager Reinhard Bichsel
Organisation Aldo Miguel Grompone, Rome
NATIONAL PREMIERE
length 55'
German performance with Italian surtitles.
Since the middle of the Eighteenth Century, Peter Brook belongs to the most influencial theatrical creators in the world. His legendary stagings of Shakespeare have revolutionized the view about the English Dramatist and the way his works are still performed.
In 1968 his work The Empty Space has raised to manifesto the vision of a direct and living theatre, in a costant renewal, laying the base of an evolution still in progress.
A lot of his free projects, like Mahabarata, The Ik, The Man Who, are unforgettable.
His last project Warum Warum belongs to this kind of research works and it’s the second one in german language directed by Brook.
Along with the actress Miriam Goldschmidt he’s going to investigate in the heart of the theatrical creative process.
The point of departure are the texts by some of the most important creators of modern theatre: Meyerhold, Craig, Dullin, Artaud then there are echoes of Zeami Motokiyo, one of the Nÿ-Japanese Theatre master and, of course, of Shakespeare, to whom Brook always refers. Dramaturgy (who the director has devised together with his co-authoress Marie-Hélène Estienne) is an assembly of the texts by the above-mentioned authors and artists. Brook shows the artistic process as a continuous doubt and demanding path, in the exchange between actor and audience: Why? Why?
Peter Brook doesn’t mean to give demonstrations, neighter to put out theories. His aim is to exhort and to shake: “The essential is to awake what is alive”.
Peter Brook was born in London in 1925. He directed his first work when he was 18 years old. He has directed more than 70 productions among London, Paris and New York. In 1971 he founded the International Centre of Theatrical Research in Paris and in 1974 inaugurated his permanent base at the Teatre Bouffes du Nord in Paris too. His directions, both in English and French, are innumerable, besides lyrical directions that brought him to the most important lyrical theatres in the world. His autobiography Threads of Time was published in 1998, then is not possible to forget works like The Empty Space, translated in 15 languages, The Shifting Point and many others.
Miriam Goldschmidt was born in Germany. She studied theatre with jaques Lecoq and dancing with Laura Shellen in Paris. From the 1968 to 1971, she worked with Harry Buckwitz at Darmstadt Landestheater, with Peter Zadek at Munich Kammerspiele, Werner Düggelin and Hans Hollmann at Basler Theater. In 1971 she went to the International Centre of Theatrical Creation funded by Brook in Paris and since that moment she has played in his various perfomances.
Francesco Agnello was born in Sicily in 1960. He’s a composer, musician, director and theatrical pedagogist. He has worked with Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Jacques Lemêtre at Théâtre du Soleil and with Peter Brook.
