VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival - Misfit like a clown

Misfit like a clown

Cornelio/Diogo/Dalisi/Antonio Latella

15/10/2010 , 21:30
16/10/2010 , 17:30

(free adaptation of Opinions of a Clown by Heinrich Böll)

With: Daniele Fior
Sound: Franco Visioli
Light designer: Simone de Angelis
Costumes and scenes: Graziella Pepe
Assistant to the direction: Francesca Giolivo
Text and direction: Linda Dalisi

Nuovo Teatro Nuovo and
Fondazione Campania dei Festival/Napoli.Teatro Festival Italia

Running time: 1h

WORLD PREMIERE

Misfit like a Clown
The play is a free adaptation of the world literary masterpiece by H. Böll Opinions of a Clown.
Through a fake board game, we will walk along a path that brings to the acceptance of a loss. Through each move we will procede within the game system, subject to its own rules.
What if a play piece turned out to be “the deserter” and, as a court jester, could shirk the established rules, ignoring them? What would the consequences be?
Can one fight the system?
Hans, the main character, narrates the deserter’s fundamentalism. He claims his love, wants his girl back, a girl subjected to the middle class, post war morale.
He raises objections; he questions the system; he has expectations.
He is prepared to risk the most important thing of his life to fulfil his desire.

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Cornelio/Diogo/Dalisi/Antonio Latella

Agnese CORNELIO. She studied Direction in Rome and Berlin, after conferring a degree on Scienze dell’Educazione at the University of Bologna, and worked as Assistant Director with Thomas Ostermeier, Luk Perceval, Antonio Latella, Johann Simons, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Stephan Kimmig e Lars Ole Walburg.
She directed Blackbird by David Harrower and Amore e rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini for the Theater Basel. She also directed Terrormum by Nora Mansmann, A Stubborn Woman: Anna Politkovskaja by S. Massini, Lieb mich weg by Rainer Werner Fassbinder for Munich’s Kammerspiele; for the Festival Doing Identity – Bastard München she directed the project Apertura di Stagione. She also cooperated as a director with the Bayerisches Staatschauspiel, with the Theater Heidelberg, the Theater Erlangen and Universität der Künste in Berlin.
In 2009 she was invited to participate in the International Forum of the Theatertreffen festival in Berlin to work with the collective Gob Squad about the performative mechanisms of the framing Reality.
Nowadays she still researches in the area of Mastorna project, in the interdisciplinary program Advanced Performance Training for the Kunstcentrum de Singel in Antwerp.
She also performs with the International Collective Bikinisubsystem working in theatres and urban spaces, combining techniques from performing arts, theatre and video.

Paula DIOGO. She was born in Lisbon on 5th October 1977.
Graduated at the Lisbon’s High School of Theatre and Cinema she attended lessons at the University of Lisbon in Languages and foreign literatures.
She was co-founder of the Theatre Praga (1995/2008), of the collective TRUTA (2003), and of the production house Pato Profissional Lda (2003), regularly working with them as an author, performer, director and producer.
Up to now, she has worked with the following directors and companies: Antonio Catalano (IT/Casa degli Alfieri), Madalena Victorino (PT), Nuno Carinhas (PT), Rogério de Carvalho (PT), Lúcia Sigalho e Senssurround (PT), Letizia Quintavalla e Flavia Armenzoni (IT/ Teatro delle Briciole), Antonio Latella (IT/Projecto Thierry Salmon/NTN), João Pedro Vaz/Assédio (PT), Teatro Meridional (PT), Teatro da Garagem (PT), Artistas Unidos (PT), Cão Solteiro (PT), Alexander Kelly (UK/Third Angel), Gonçalo Amorim (PT), Clementine Baert (FR), Martim Pedroso/Materiais Diversos (PT) e Tiago Rodrigues e Mundo Perfeito (PT).
In 2004 she received, by the Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, the prize Teatro na Década as best actress for the show Private Lives, produced by Theatre Praga.
In 2006, due to a financial grant by Centro Nacional de Cultura, she could partecipate in the creative process of the Gob Squad group (UE/DE) in Berlin. In the same year she was invited by the Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta, to collaborate as host-artist at COLINA – Colaboration in Arts, in Aarhus (Denmark).
Still in 2006 she partecipated in the Ecole de Mâitres – Progetto Thierry Salmon, where she worked with the director Antonio Latella.
In 2007 she attended the course for direction within the Programa Criatividade e Criação Artística della Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal), directed by the English company Third Angel.
During the same year she also prepared and staged the duet Off The White, as a result of the cooperation with Alexander Kelly (Third Angel).
In 2008 she partecipated to the Encontros Alkantara 2008 for young artists and critics, within the Alkantara Festival of Lisbon directed by Mark Deputter.
In 2009 she was host-artist in Lisbon to the staging of the show Léffect de Serge by Philiphe Quesne and Vivarium Studio.
Still in 2009 she dedicated herself to the realisation of Má-Criação, a label associated to the Production House O Pato Profissional, exclusively dedicated to projects standing in the area of performance and thatre.
Nowadys she collaborates as performer and author in several projects in Portugal, France and Italy.
She personally follows the cinematographic projects of the House of Production O Pato Profissional Lda.
www.opatoprofissional.com

Linda DALISI. She graduated in Chemistry at the University of Naples. In 1999 she met Leo de Berardinis and the encounter was striking; she then moved to Bologna to work as a volunteer at his Theatre.
Since 2002 she has been working as Assistant Director with different artists like Pierpaolo Sepe, Monica Nappo, Renato Carpentieri, Michelangelo Dalisi, Antonio Calone. She realized for Museum, a project by Renato Carpentieri, the theatrical version of Il persecutore by J. Cortazar (2004), Bartelby lo scrivano by H. Melville (2005), and Mattatoio #5 by K. Vonnegut (2008). She cooperated at Per Amleto (2007) directed by M. Dalisi (awarded with Dante Cappelletti prize in 2006); WNiatri, directed by F. Ferracane – D. Pilli – M. Riondino, and [H] L_DOPA directed by Antonio Latella (2010). In 2008 she received special mention at the Nuove Sensibilità prize, for Più leggero di un sughero, staged in 2009.
She published Messa in scena della Mafia for Dante & Descartes publisher, an essay about the method and work of Emma Dante, in Cani di bancata. For the same publishing house she collaborated to the book edited by Marina Rippa, La scena delle donne.
Since 2007 she has been collaborating with the magazine Hystrio.

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