Naples Theatre Festival

ANOTHER SLEEPY DUSTY DELTA DAY by Jan Fabre (France, USA, Italy, Croatia)

Stefano — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:12:38 +0000

ANOTHER SLEEPY DUSTY DELTA DAY

text, set-design, direction Jan Fabre

choreography Jan Fabre, Ivana Jozic

performer Ivana Jozic

production Troubleyn/Jan Fabre

coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia

collaboration with Aldo Miguel Grompone, Zagreb Youth Theatre & Theatre Festival (Croazia)

from 26th to 28th June

20.00

Teatro Nuovo

First Night

duration 90′

dramaturgy and assistant to Jan Fabre Miet Martens

soundscape Tom Tiest, DomXh

recordings at Ghost Town (Hemiksem,B) by Geert Vanbever

musicians Tom Tiest (guitar) Filip Vandebril ((double) bass),

deemonkeyjazz (drum), Andrew Claes (tenor sax), Vincent Brijs (baritone sax), Charlotte Saelemakers (violin), Jennifer De Keersmaeker (violin), Astrid Bossuyt (violin)

song ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ by Gentry, Bobbie (C/A) Northridge Music Co / Universal- MCA Music Holland BV

costume design Louise Assomo

singing-coach Dirk Bohnen

language coach French Anny Czupper

language coach English Tom Hannes

technical coordination Harry Cole

light design Jan Fabre / Harry Cole

technicians for creation set Bern Van Deun, Sven Van Kuijk, Geert Van der Auwera, Alexis Devos, Mikes Poppe

production/tour management Sophie Vanden Broeck

Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day is Jan Fabre’s new work that, after Naples, will make its debùt at the Festival d’Avignon. The title of the performance, as well as its creation, draw their inspiration from the famous Ode to Billy Joe (1967) by the American singer of Portoguese origin Roberta Lee Streeter (Bobbie Gentry) on the stage. Considered as one of the first country song writers and singers, Bobbie Gentry, who was a fascinating and good-looking woman with a hoarse and sensuous voice, composed innovative and original songs on the life styles and cultural values of the southern States of America. The “Delta” of the title refers to the mouth of the Mississipi river. «It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, Delta day I was out choppin’ cotton and my brother was balin’ hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door “y’all remember to wipe your feet” And then she said “I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge: Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge”». The song is about the mysterious story of Billy Joe’s suicide, a topic that has been used as outline for the “solo” created by Fabre for Ivana Jozic, the Croatian dancer who has already worked in many other performances of the Belgian artist.

Visual artist, performer, sculptor theatrical director, choreographer, writer, Jan Fabre was born in Antwerp in 1958. He studied at the Institute for Decorative Arts and then Fine Arts at the Royal Academy. Still very young, he directed his first performance (Theatter geschreven met een K is een kater, ad Anversa), followed, in 1982, by This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen: a performance lasting eight hours, from sunset to dawn, that deeply impressed the audience and gave him an immediate fame. Two years later Fabre was already at the Biennale di Venezia with The power of theatrical madness, that defined his style even more clearly. In the past years Fabre has created Je suis sang (2001, performed again in 2003 and 2005): it is a diptych dedicated to the body humours that constitute our substance, it is a hymn to blood and body. The crying body dates back to 2004; it is a preliminary study for The History of Tears: the performance is focused on what Fabre calls «body tears», all secretions produced by the human body when it is sad or happy, when it wants or is afraid of something (Je suis Sang, Ange de la Mort, Quando l’uomo principale…). In 2007, Jan Fabre was asked by the Festival of Salzburg, held at the Felsenreithschule, to create the Réquiem für eine Metamorphose. Together with Chantal Akerman and Wolfgang Rihm, he recently performed I am a Mistake.

L’opera di periferia by Peppe Lanzetta (Italy)

Stefano — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:34:00 +0000

June 21, 2008 9:30 pm

June 22, 2008 9:30 pm

L’OPERA DI PERIFERIA

by Peppe Lanzetta

directed by Pasquale De Cristofaro

production Associazione Teatro Studio

21st, 22nd June

21.30

Teatro della Villa Comunale

language Italian

duration 120′
L’opera di periferia is an original musical comedy that marks Peppe Lanzetta’s debùt as writer of comedies.

The performance draws its inspiration from Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera or from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; it is about “marginalised” teen-agers who dream of America but, likely enough, will die on a road in the outskirts of Naples named American Road. They are the children of the Neapolitan suburban districts, symbols of any peripheral city area, but above all, of social marginalisation. It is a difficult reality made up of rebellion and naivety, or epic deeds, the complexity of which is conveyed through a wide range of languages suspended between tragedy and “sceneggiata”, in a narration including prose, songs and dance, something in-between musical comedy and musical.

The performance is played by professional actors and a group of teen-agers from the urban suburbs to raise the awareness of the public opinion of the problems and hopes of these areas. The project is also aimed at creating social integration, opportunities for cultural emancipation and, lastly, job opportunities. The work deals with the problems linked to the marginalisation of the post-modern lumpenproletariat and of the gangs of teen-agers from the “malanapoli”; it also deals with the pervasive interference of camorra in an increasing number of districts in Naples.

Born in Naples in 1956, Peppe Lanzetta worked with Edoardo Bennato, Pino Daniele, James Senese and Franco Battiato writing down the texts of their songs. He made his theatrical debùt with Napoletano pentito (1983), followed by Roipnol (1984), Il vangelo secondo Lanzetta (1986), Lenny (1988), Caro Achille ti scrivo (1990), Il peggio di Lanzetta (1993), Tropico di Napoli (1998), Ridateci i sogni (2001). Actor and author of cinema projects, he also worked with directors such as Piscicelli, Tornatore, Cavani, De Crescenzo, Loy, Martone, Asia Argento, Scimeca. He published: Un amore a termine (1998) and In gita a Napoli (1997). He co-operated as author of texts with a

number of musicians including Edoardo Bennato, Tullio de Piscopo, James Senese, Enzo Avitabile, Joe Amoruso, Rino Zurzolo, Franco Ricciardi, Massimo Severino and Franco Battiato.

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Fran Perea to play Don Juan at Naples Festival

Stefano — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:09:35 +0000

The Theatre Festival of Naples, which is celebrating its first edition this year, will feature two performances of the “Trickster of Seville or The Stone Guest” by Tirso de Molina, with Spanish actor Fran Perea in the role of Don Juan.

The version of this Golden Age classic, which will be set in Naples on 21 and 22 June, is a production from the Spanish classical theatre festival in Almagro.

Following the presentation of the Almagro Festival in the Cervantes Institute in Naples, its director, Emilio Hernández, pointed out that the figure of Don Juan represents a link between Naples in Italy (where Tirso de Molina’s work starts, at the time of the Spanish occupation of southern Italy) and Spain.

As a symbol of the “collaborative spirit” promoted by the Naples and Almagro Festivals, the latter will host an Italian play entitled “Five stories for Casanova” on 1 and 5 July, about the famous Venetian seducer written from the point of view of the women that he loved.

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