Sunday, September 7, 2008

Teatro dei Cantieri Festival (Palermo, Aug. 19 - Oct. 16)

ATS Spazio Zero – Teatro dei Cantieri is an independent theatrical network that aims to promote and help artists with new ideas, structures and materials. The network 7 companies – AC Sutta Scupa, Compagnia Quartiatri, Compagnia del Tratto, Compagnia La Nave dei Folli, Associazione Culturale Bogotà, Compagnia Aracne and C. Art Teatro Palermo - organize the Festival, performed in Palermo from August 19 until October 16.
It presents some interesting productions. Among them:
* CAMURRIA by and with Gaspare Balsamo [see article by Giuseppe Distefano (Il Sole 24 Ore)]
* C’ ERA E C’ ERA GIUSEPPE SCHIERA. Un poeta di strada nella Palermo del fascismo by Salvo Licata [Giuseppe Schiera]
* DISSONORATA - Un delitto d’onore in Calabria by and with Saverio La Ruina [UBU Prize 2007 Best Actor /“Migliore attore”/ and Best Italian New Production /“Migliore novità italiana”/]
* MADE IN ITALY by and with Valeria Raimondi and Enrico Castellani
* TRE STUDI PER UNA CROCIFISSIONE by and with Danio Manfredini [UBU Prize 1992] (review) [The title refers to Francis Bacon's triptych]
* STUDIO SU TRILOGIA DEI SERVIZI Cap. I Call Center (Crisalidi) by Gianluigi Cristiano [The title refers to Purg. X]
* 1856 STORIA DI PUPI E DI PUPARI by and with Marco Manera
* GIOTTO - Studio per una tragedia by and with Giuseppe Provinzano
* OUMINICCH’ by Rosario Palazzolo
Some presentations are very useful to understand contemporary Italy.
Made in Italy, for example, offers a an examination of catchwords and expressions of intolerance, and reveals the uneasiness of many who live amidst the arrogance, ignorance and cult of banality that characterize contemporary Italian society.

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