“Proprio come se nulla fosse avvenuto” by Roberto Andò (Italy)
By Stefano • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 20, 2008 9:30 pm | a | June 22, 2008 9:30 pm |
| June 25, 2008 9:30 pm | a | June 29, 2008 9:30 pm |
PROPRIO COME SE NULLA FOSSE AVVENUTO
Still life per la Darsena Acton di Napoli
by Roberto Andò
from Anna Maria Ortese and fromPaul Klee, Georges Perec, Alberto Arbasino, Diego de Silva and Vincenzo Pirrotta
directed by Roberto Andò
production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in coproduction with Cooperativa Gli Ipocriti
from 20th to 22nd, from 25th to 29th June 9.30 pm
Darsena Acton
First night
language Italian
duration 90′
with Anna Bonaiuto, Maria Nazionale, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Virginia Da Brescia
and other 85 actors
with 5 musicians
music by Marco Betta
set-design, costume and light design Gianni Carluccio
sound design Giuseppe Rapisarda
The ghost of a theme – emigration - looms over Andò’s play which the author grasps from the «awareness of a colossal omission, a gap that cannot be filled», within the scattering, the exile, the feeling of confusion deriving from expropriation. Andò comes up with the idea of a theatre that prefers action to narration for reasons related to «the catastrophic condition of the south, with its present-day stubborn resistance to mere narrative utilization, due to inaptness, objective impossibility». The action consists in a single scenery (or installation) divided into three stations, all equipped with a particular resounding environment: the audience approaches each scenery from time to time by following a fixed route. The main characters of the action are men and women on the run and ready to embark on a one-way journey. The action takes place at the Darsena Acton, an area of the harbour of Naples, seat of the Navy and normally closed to the public but open in this occasion.
The title of Andò’s play recalls the sentence that writer Anna Maria Ortese noted at the foot of Il Mare non bagna Napoli «in order to seal – as the author puts it – the encounter that never took place, after the publishing of the book, between the offended Naples and the person who invented and ascribed an “atrocious neurosis” to the city itself”. Andò commits the spectator to a voice, Maria Ortese, that reflects the civil identity of this nation, capable of «carving genuine moral sceneries and protecting us at the same time from their alleged unredemptiveness. This voice is secretly akin to Georges Perec’s - a visionary cartographer and topographer of an absurd identity map. The dramaturgy of Scalo Marittimo by Raffaele Viviani based on the ghost theme of emigration at the beginning of the twentieth century, provides the author with the key for delineating the port as a venue for destiny, where the voice of the living and the
dead converge, purified from narrative concerns and transformed into landscape, moral profile, still life.
Born in Palermo in 1959, Roberto Andò started collaborating at an early age as an assistant director with Francesco Rosi and Federico Fellini, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola. Since 1980 he has been alternating film and theatre direction.
Amongst his first performances, we wish to mention: La Foresta-radice-labirinto, La sabbia del sonno, L’Esequie della Luna, Mittersill 101. From the profound artistic collaboration with Moni Ovadia: Diario ironico dall’esilio, Il caso Kafka and the recent Le storie del signor Keuner by Brecht. As for opera direction: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, L’Olandese volante, Il Flauto magico, Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, La Norma at the Regio of Parma, Cavalleria rusticana and Edipus Rex at the Regio of Torino; lastly, the diptych recently realized at the San Carlo Theatre, Il Castello di Barbablù and L’Enfant et le sortilege. He made his debut in the film industry with the movie Il Manoscritto del Principe and won both the Sergio Leone Award and the Fellini Award, followed by Sotto falso nome and Viaggio segreto. Amongst his latest works, we wish to mention: Sette storie per lasciare il mondo, in collaboration with musician Marco Betta; Natura morta per i diritti umani, featuring Isabelle Huppert; La notte delle lucciole, his own original drama elaboration taken from Sciascia, featuring Marco Baliani.
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