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Madeleine

Muta Imago

14/10/2010 , 22:00
15/10/2010 , 20:00 , 23:00

Creation: Muta Imago
Direction: Claudia Sorace
Drama/Sound: Riccardo Fazi
Stage setting: Massimo Troncanetti
with: Luca Giovagnoli
Dresses: Fiamma Benvignati
Performance: Glen Blackhall, Chiara Caimmi
Stage pictures: Luigi Angelucci Laura Arlotti

Production: Muta Imago 2009
Coproduction: RomaEuropa Festival
In collaboration with: Bassano Opera Festival, Artlink Romania,
With the support of: Regione Lazio, Assessorato alla Cultura, Spettacolo e Sport, Amat Marche/Premio Valeria Moriconi 2009, L’Arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Centrale FIES, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove Venezia, Citta’ di Ebla, Kollatino Underground

Thanks to: Irene Petris
Showed in the scope of the European festival Temps d'Images 2009.

Running time 45'

Madeleine is the story of a wait. Of a slow sighting. An approacing, an unstoppable countdown, an inexorable descent toward a manifested destiny. Lev, our previous show, was about a man who strives to come back home. In Madeleine a woman waits for a return. She doesn’t know if and how it will happen, she doesn’t know when. But she knows it will happen, that it will be unpredictable, devastating, destroying: it will make explode anything she could have built before. Everything at the beginning looks serene, secure, protected: the woman, alone, inhabit a tranquil and definite place. The gestures are essentials, the faint movements remain suspended in the air. The space is still, precisely outlined, the lines that pass through it draw precise courses and paths. But slowly, in an implacable way, a strange spell settles down on things, like a vertigo that moves what it shouldn’t be moved: small, contradictory signals appear between the folds of reality: a gust of wind, the sudden passage of a shadow, a light that moves or suddenly turn off. The woman tries to defend herself, she tries to get hold of reality. An atmosphere of strange electricity fills the stage. The woman realizes that soon she won’t be alone anymore.

Dream and fear are the constitutive elements of Madeleine’s world.
Together with two performer, a man and a woman. Together with a world made of limens, projections, tricks, transparencies and reflections. Together with fog, smoke and wind. Because we feel invaded. We feel under siege. We feel something terrible is going to come and we don’t know how to react, andwe hide in our paper houses, hoping they will resist to the impact. We’re scared. We try to ignore the signals, we diminish our own feelings. The past, we’d rather forget; the future, we can’t think about it, too worried to preserve a present constantly under menace. We’re afraid of loss and abandonment; we fear the real exuberance, the exceptional and obscure passions; we’re shocked by the complete embrace of a movement that is not direct, but spiraliform, feminine. Maybe only dream remains that mythical territory that is always been: the place where barriers fall down, where anything that’s far meets, against our willness, where directions remain unpredictable: this place we would like to investigate. This state of waiting we want to experience. Of this useless fight to resist and of the latter defeit we would like to talk about. Because the storm doesn’t wait anymore: it suddenly arrives, twists, drags. It seems to separate, but it unifies. It seems to destroy, but it deprives of the superflous, it shows, manifests and with its passage leaves, spread all over, fragments of pure truth.

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Muta Imago

Muta Imago is a Rome - based theatre group born in 2004 after the meeting of Riccardo Fazi, dramaturg, Claudia Sorace, director and Massimo Troncanetti, stage designer. From 2006 the group firmly collaborates with the actor Glen Blackhall.
Moving from the provocation of matter the group reflects on the possibility of deepening and dilating the space and sense passages traceable in reality. In order to make appear on the surface stories and moments that could reconstruct a lost unitariety, that can still be found in the human being.
Comeacqua (2007), (a + b)3 (2007), Lev (2008) and Napoli. P.p.n.c.d.s. (2009 – produced by Napoli Teatro Festival Italia) are the last shows produced. They have been hosted by the most important italian festivals, like RomaEuropa Festival, Santarcangelo International Festival of the Arts, Inteatro Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Bassano Opera Festival, Primavera dei Teatri, Biennal of young artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, and by important festivals abroad like Premiere Festival (Strasbourg, France), Festival Cyl (Salamanca, Spain), Bipod Festival (Beirut, Lebanon), Clipa Aduma Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel), Temps D’Images (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Unidram Festival (Potsdam, Germany) and Teatro/Theater Italienischer Theaterherbst (Berlin, Germany).
Madeleine, the last production, had its premiere in Rome in november at the RomaEuropa Festival 2009 (also co-producer).
The group is now working on the project Displace which will produce two performances and one main production by november 2011. The first performance will have its premiere next october at RomaEuropa Festival 2010.

In 2009 the company won the Ubu Special Award; the Critic’s Award from the National Association of Theatre’s Critics; the DE.MO./Movin’UP.
In the same year Claudia Sorace, director of the company, won the Premio Cavalierato Giovanile from Provincia di Roma and the International Award “Valeria Moriconi”.

www.mutaimago.com
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