Purgatorio
28/10/2008
, 
21:00
29/10/2008
, 21:00
By Romeo Castellucci
Freely inspired to Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri
Direction, scenography, light design and costume design by Romeo Castellucci
Original music by Scott Gibbons
Choreographies by Cindy Van Acker and Romeo Castellucci
Scenography Collaboration and Architecture Giacomo Strada
Skies images ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup
Scene sculputures Istvan Zimmermann, Giovanna Amoroso
Automation Giuseppe Contini
Costumes realization Gabriella Battistini
With Irena Radmanovic, , Davide Savorani, Sergio Scarlatella, Pier Paolo Zimmermann
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
Administrative consultation Massimiliano Coli
Production Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Festival d’Avignon
Le Maillon-Théâtre de Strasbourg, Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers – Scène nationale, Le Duo / Dijon
barbicanbite09, London as part of Spill Festival 2009
de Singel /Antwerpen, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, La Monnaie / Bruxelles
Athens Festival
UCLA Live / Los Angeles
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève
Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione / Modena
Nam June Paik Art Center/Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 09, Vilnius International Theatre Festival „Sirenos“
F/T 09 - Tokyo International Arts Festival
Cankarjev dom / Ljubljana
Thanks to
Senigallia Town Council – Cultural Assessorship/AMAT
The Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio general activity is supported by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali and by Assessorati alla Cultura of the Regione Emilia Romagna and of the Comune di Cesena
In the show by Romeo Castellucci that will be staged at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia, the man who goes through purgatory - the “song of the earth” - is a curious being, constantly stopped by the concrete nature of the things and objects that surround him, in a depiction of his own life. This material occupies him, blocks his way, attaches him and often torments him. It bears witness to what exactly purgatory is to Romeo Castellucci: human life in its daily repetition where family represents the portrait of a society devoted to make things work methodically but not for this is freed from anonymity, interchangeability and loneliness, familiarity with everyday tasks, the trap of routine, the experience of the ordinary body, encounters with the finished world, known nature, the substances of life. He knows that he is condemned to wander there, among reality, represented both without distance, abstractly, and hyper-realistically, “a reality without a shadow” says the director, who has engaged himself in a major work on evolving forms. Punishment, here, is just living, experiencing the world.
This Purgatorio is therefore more than a show because it is also the occasion, for the spectator, for an experience that Romeo Castellucci considers very valuable: finding oneself, suddenly, on the other side of stagecraft , behind the performance. As if each individual could attend the projected show of his own life, but a primitive one, sent back to the earliest times , those of origins and birth. This suddenly offered lucidity, like an experience of a return to vision within contemporary nature, a return to sensation in the midst of a modern city, isn’t it even more terrible? It is an existential anguish that springs up from this show, as if sensations and the body were dissolving in matter.
