Inferno
16/10/2008
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20:30
17/10/2008
, 16:00
18/10/2008
, 16:00
By Romeo Castellucci
Direction, set design, lighting and costumes Romeo Castellucci
Original music Scott Gibbons
Choreography Cindy Van Acker and Romeo Castellucci
With Alessandro Cafiso, Maria Luisa Cantarelli, Elia Corbara, Silvia Costa, Sara Dal Corso, Manola Maiani, Luca Nava, Gianni Plazzi, Stefano Questorio, Silvano Voltolina and all the extra’s who from city to city will join the people
Technical crew of the Trilogy:
Staging coordination Salvo Di Martina
Stage hands Fatmir Gjoka, Federico Lepri, Viviana Rella, Giorgio Ritucci
Lighting Technicians Fabio Sajiz, Luciano Trebbi
Sound Technicians Paolo Baldini, Matteo Braglia
Props and mechanisms care Giovanni Marocco, Alfredo Tassi
Costumes realization Gabriella Battistini
Costumes care in tour Giulia Campolmi and Marion Gizard
Tailoring, props and wigs Carmen Castellucci
Taxidermy Agostino Navone
Aerostatics realizzazione ditraverso
Realization of the Set for Purgatorio D.ex M.Laboratori snc, Calcinelli di Saltara
Realization of mechanical automations Carpenteria metallica M.V
All the object and sculptures and mechanisms have been built at Laboratorio Plastikart of Zimmermann&Amoroso with:
Giuseppe Amoroso, Damiano Bagli, Chiara Bocchini, Laura Ceroni, Lucia Cinnà, Martina Consoli, Romina Giuliani, Caterina Guia, Fabiana Mantovanelli, Giovanni Marocco, Eleonora Paparella, Elena Pescantin, Alice Siracusano, Alfredo Tassi, Patrizio Virzì, Simone Zappoli
Photography Luca Del Pia
Production management Cosetta Nicolini
Organization Gilda Biasini, Benedetta Briglia
Administration Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
Collaboration to the set design Giacomo Strada
Automations Giuseppe Contini
Production Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; Festival d’Avignon; Le Maillon-Théâtre de Strasbourg; Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers–Scène Nazionale; Opéra de Dijon; barbicanbite09, London as part of Spill Festival 2009; deSingel /Antwerpen, Kunstenfestivaldesarts; De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussels); Athens Festival; UCLA Live (Los Angeles); La Bâtie-Festival (Genève); Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Modena); Nam June Paik Art Center/Gyeonggi-do, (Seoul, Korea); Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 09, Vilnius International Theatre Festival Sirenos; Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana); F/T 09 Tokyo International Arts Festival
The general activity of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio is supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; Regione Emilia Romagna; Comune di Cesena
The Project Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso has been admitted to the phase II of evaluation of the Culture Programme (2007-2013) of the European Union
With the special collaboration of La Bâtie-Festival de Geneve, September 2008
NATIONAL PREMIERE
length 1h 30'
Inferno by Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, that made its début at Avignone in the huge open space of the Popes Palace Cour d’Honneur, reaches VIE abandoning the ecclesiastical architecture to reconstruct the atmosphere of the first cantica within the Teatro Comunale in Modena.
A crowd of actors and extras invades the scene. They are the damned who, far from being a community, struggle in a solitary condition, finding the key of their acts in dismay. A deep darkness invades the audience giving rise to the same bewilderment that frightens and paralyzes Dante, making him lost in the darkness.
As a matter of fact, Virgilio induce him to penetrate murk instead of following the gleam of light that would lead him out of the forest. Dante, author of the work, is assailed by dread and poetry ghosts that would savage him like beasts.
In this dark room where vision is denied, everything can be imagined: darkness, confusion and crisis symbolize the artist condition in the early stages of creation, a bewilderment that, as regards Dante, simbolyzes a deep spiritual crisis, but it could be considered the art condition tout court. People and human relationships that spring from Castellucci Inferno, live in a nostalgic condition for life.
