Zona Franca 2011 inglese - Solares Fondazione delle Arti

November 11th – December 4th 2011
INCONTEMPORANEA
PARMA FESTIVAL
Teatro Festival Zona Franca Natura Dèi Teatri
Associazione MICRO MACRO FESTIVAL
TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE
ZONA FRANCA
Parma, 12 – 27 November 2011
Teatro al Parco, Biblioteca Palatina, Liceo Artistico Paolo Toschi
With the contribution of
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Regione Emilia - Romagna
Comune di Parma
Provincia di Parma
Fondazione Monte di Parma
Performances for adults
SONIA BERGAMASCO AND FABRIZO GIFUNI
read
THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antonie de Saint-Exupéry
idea Fabrizio Gifuni and Sonia Bergamasco
sound Rodolfo Rossi
light design Cesare Accetta
in collaboration with Teatro Franco Parenti
>Teatro al Parco
November 12th at 21.00
Two great artists will inaugurate Zona Franca Festival with this great masterpiece of children
literature.
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye.” This real treasure enlightens Saint Exupéry’s tale and allows us to
understand the human soul; it’s inside this amazing secret that Sonia Bergamasco and Fabrizio
Gifuni invite the spectator/reader to follow with them the Little Prince’s journey. A journey full of
wonderful encounters and many mysteries in this initiation tale that is also an essay on education
and philosophy. A metaphor for “maternal”, for belonging to and separating from, for the
uniqueness of each relationship.
TERRAMMARE TEATRO
LEZIONE DI CLASSE (SCHOOL LESSON)
idea Gigi Gherzi
project and performance Gigi Gherzi, Silvia Civilla
> Liceo Artistico Statale “P. Toschi”
November 17th and 18th at 21.00
Gigi Gherzi’s theatre goes toward the spectators, it stimulates them, pushes them to express
spoken and written words and then gratifies them for their thoughts and feelings.
To speak about school, far away from “petty political battles” but closer to some of the great
themes such as learning, training, and teaching, Gigi Gherzi presents his show at the Toschi High
School of Parma and has his public sit once more on the school benches. This to ask, amidst
paintings, great writers thoughts, and the ideas from the public, questions such as: what does
teaching mean? How does one learn? What type of intelligence are we trained for?
Special Puppet Theatre
TOF THEATRE – TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE (Belgium-Italie)
PICCOLI SENTIMENTI
idea, puppet and direction Alain Moreau
artistic collaboration Antonio Catalano
sound and music Max Vandervorst
with Sandrine Hooge, Céline Robaszynski, Alain Moreau (alternatively)
co-production Festival A pas contés (Dijon), Le Granit – Scène Nationale de Belfort, Scène
Nationale de Montbéliard, L’Yonne en scène
National Première
> Teatro al Parco
November 25th at 21.00 - November 26th at 22.30
Tof Theatre and Teatro delle Briciole have been collaborating together for years. The Italian public
remembers very well the shows: Bistouris, Bénévoles, Sur la Dune. This long relationship has given
birth to a co-production project that puts together Alain Moreau’s puppet theatre, Antonio
Catalano’s crafty-art and his fantastic “every day objects”, and Max Vandervorst’s “patamusic”
composed and played with those in current use objects transformed into instruments.
The wonder of a little character who discovers the world becomes one intimately shared feeling
with the spectators.
-----------------------------------------------------Zona Franca Festival pays a special tribute to Roberto Abbiati. A kind of a small monographic
portrait with two of his works: his genial “reduction” of the novel Moby Dick by Melville and his last
show on the art of typography.
GORGONZOLA DREAM
UNA TAZZA DI MARE IN TEMPESTA (A STORMY CUP OF SEA)
director Roberto Abbiati
with Roberto Abbiati, Luca Salata, Alessandro Calabrese
> Teatro al Parco
November 25 th at 20.30, at 22.00, and at 23.00
Limited sitting
Melville’s masterpiece, the great story of Captain Ahab and his adventurous whale hunting doesn’t
feel a bit claustrophobic when closed in a small four by two meters room. It’s in this tiny space,
reminding maybe a whaling-ship’s hold that Roberto Abbiati evokes with his strange suggestions
and his small objects huge things such as: whales, sailboats, oceans.
A miniaturization that involves not only space but also time and public: a few spectators are
invited for a few minutes to share “a stormy cup of sea”.
FONDAZIONE I TEATRI REGGIO EMILIA
LO STAMPATORE ZOLLINGER (THE PRINTER ZOLLINGER)
inspired by Pablo d’Ors’ novel
director Roberto Abbiati
with Roberto Abbiati, Marino Zerbin, Matteo Rubagotti
> Teatro al Parco
November 26th at 21.00
The printer Zollinger is an «apprenticeship story» and also a homage to the art of typography and
therefore the invention of free characters, which in the hands of Roberto Abbiati becomes the art of
correction, that is the art that makes you think of another possibility, that is the possibility that will
change to your life. Abbiati re-prints for the stage “The adventures of printer Zollinger” by Pablo d’Ors, a
gentle and humourous story which tells the misadventures of a young man who dreams to become a
printer. The passion of the Lombard director-actor for mechanics and for assembling objects finds in the
young August Zollinger’s story the precious occasion to have words and matter, poetry and stage-art get
into a dialog.
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LE DUE E UN QUARTO
SENZA DENTI (TOOTHLESS)
direction Adrian Schvarzstein
with Martina Soragna and Silvia Laniado
set design Bruno Geda e Marco Premoli
puppets Martina Soragna
> Teatro al Parco
November 25 at 22.00
In 2009, the audience attending the ‘Puppet Theatre marathon’ at Teatro al Parco was struck with a
performance that finely played on the relation between animate and inanimate hidden behind the
puppeteer shack. In their performances, the young actresses Silvia Laniado e Martina Soragna make the
puppet movements and body hit the actor movements and body, with a weird, surreal and metatheatrical humour. A humour coming from the “comedy”, that gives a peculiar verve to the popular art
of the puppets: that’s what happens in Senza denti (Toothless), a mocking performance in which two
precocious and odd newborn babies show the childhood from their point of view, with innocence and
cruelty.
TEATRO IN TRAMBUSTO
VARIETÀ PRESTIGE (VARIETY-SHOW PRESTIGE)
idea and direction Francesca Zoccarato
puppet creation Jan Ruzicka
> Teatro al Parco
November 26th at 23.30
Musicians, singers, dancers, cabaret singers, monkeys puppet theatre and variety-show are getting
together. The charm of vintage sequins, shiny dresses and gramophones are coming back to life thanks
to a puppeteer with high-eels and sequins who wants to pay a very feminine and glamorous homage to
the twenties, to the avanspettacolo, its myths and rituals.
The legendary music of Edith Piaf and Boris Vian, of Cole Porter and Trio Lescano comes back to life in
the middle of piano-toys and amazing puppets sculpted by the Czech artist Jan Ruzick.
Ladies and Gentlemen, today’s dream is a variety show: another period, another music!
Performances for young public
TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE
L’ORCO SCONFITTO OVVERO IL SAPERE DEL PIÙ PICCOLO
(THE DEFEATED OGRE or how the little ones know)
inspired by Little Thumb
Letizia Quintavalla and Valentin Rossier
director Letizia Quintavalla
with Teodoro Bonci Del Bene
show created at Am Stram Gram le Théatre – Geneve – 2001
4 to 6
> Teatro al Parco
November 13th at 15.30 and at 17.30
November 24th at 9.30
Freely inspired by Charles Perrault’s Little Thumb, L’Orco sconfitto – The defeated Ogre – brings
this strong initiation ritual to the theatre in a form of “kidnapping”. Three children are chosen
within the public to go through the intuitive and courageous steps that the three brothers will
need to take.
A journey together with the actor to grow up, a symbolic route alongside the various faces of
masculinity: fatherly, protective, dangerous, and childish. Teodoro Bonci Del Bene is the only
Italian actor who graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre created by Stanislavskij and who has
already participated in five of its productions.
TOF THEATRE – TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE (Belgium-Italie)
PICCOLI SENTIMENTI
idea, puppet and direction Alain Moreau
artistic collaboration Antonio Catalano
sound and music Max Vandervorst
with Sandrine Hooge, Céline Robaszynski, Alain Moreau (alternatively)
co-production Festival A pas contés (Dijon), Le Granit – Scène Nationale de Belfort, Scène
Nationale de Montbéliard, L’Yonne en scène
3 and up
National Première
> Teatro al Parco,
November 19th and 20th, at 15.30 and at 17.30
November 18th, 21st, 22nd, 24th 25th at 10.00
November 26th at 16.30
November 27th at 15.30
Piccoli sentimenti comes from a wish to explore the wonder of a small being who discovers the
world. In a landscape of stones, small pieces of wood, of water and soil, where each sense
immediately opens up to art, beauty and music, the miniature world of Tof Theatre, the crafty art
of Antonio Catalano and the “patamusica” of Max Vandervorst create a loving and quite
humoristic re-evaluation of “piccoli sentimenti – small feelings”. Happiness, fear, solitude,
sadness, desire, are shared together by the spectators who are very close to the stage, and by
quite a mysterious puppet: man, animal, child, adult?
JOSE’ ANTONIO PORTILLO (Spain)
BIBLIOTECA DE CUERDA Y NUDOS (LIBRARY OF CORDS AND KNOTS)
idea and setting José Antonio Portillo
with José Antonio Portillo
6 and up
National Première
> Palatina Library,
November 18th, 10.00 and 11.00
November 21st, 22nd, 23rd at 10.00 and at 14.30
November 24th at 14.30 and at 16.30
From outside, Portillo’s Library is an imposing cylinder made out of very smooth wood. But inside,
the curious visitor who desires to participate will actually discover its most amazing nature.
The spectators are asked to come in a circular architecture so they can enrich it with lifefragments; such an amazing piece of work will leave a powerful visual imprint in every theatre that
will welcome it.
Inside, amongst cords and knots, instruments of an archeo-language still to be discovered, there
are two other “impossible” collections a library for all the manuscripts that have never been
published and one for all the projects that have been trashed.
KILODRAMMI TEATRO
SOMARI (DUNCES)
finalist at Premio Scenario Infanzia 2010
text and direction Francesca Cavallo
with Renato Avallone, Elisa Bottiglieri, Marco Ripoldi
14 and up
> Teatro al Parco
November 19th at 11.00
There are some things that you’re the only one to understand when you’re sixteen, you’re
convinced of it, and you also know you understand them much better than anyone else. Your
suffering is very much different from anyone else and your anger is about things no one else
beside you can even get a grasp of. Somari – Dunces is the story of three types of heroic
loneliness: Erri, Nerone and Lucia. There are very different from each other and they have to live
through a tremendous experience that starts as a game: hold their school hostage. During that
whole experience the three teenagers fiercely confront each other telling us this way about the
many difficulties of school, the great need to create relationships and the strength one needs to
have to grow up in a country that keeps saying there is no real future.
TEATRO KISMET
LA PRINCIPESSA SUL PISELLO (THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA)
Inspired by The Princess and the Pea
text and direction Lucia Zotti
with Monica Contini, Delanira Dragone, Nico Masciullo
props and masks Lisa Serio
original music Nico Masciullo
7 and up
National première
> Teatro al Parco
November 22nd at 10.00
It’s all about discovering one’s self and one’s own destiny, about overcoming difficulties through
the intuition and intelligence of a prince of rock and roll and a “fake” princess.
La principessa sul pisello – The Princess and the pea – is a fairy tale that intertwines old and
modern, thrones and queens with trips in auto-stop and metropolitan adventures, and it tells us
that if you step out of the family-nest you’ll discover the world and that if you overcome
difficulties you’ll grow up; it also tells us that strength and fragility, courage and shyness can
coexist.
Princes and Princesses, tar carpets, singing competitions with presenters and fans in a
contemporary fairy tale that explores the values and paths of what is “masculine” and what is
“feminine”.
THEATRE NOUVELLE GENERATION – CENTRE DRAMATIQUE DE LYON (France)
TERRES!
by Lise Martin
director Nino D’Introna
with Maxime Cella, Thomas di Genova, Alexis Jebeile, Sarah Marcuse
in French with Italian surtitles
10 and up
National Première
> Teatro al Parco
November 22nd and 23rd at 11.00
At the end of a long journey, Aride and Kétal settle in some piece of land that says “private
property”. They are quickly disturbed by a third man who claims that this land belongs to him.
Nino D’Introna decides to bring on stage Lise Martin’s contemporary play asking, with this new
production from Theatre Nouvelle Generation, questions about the origins of violence that
develops within groups. In a scenery that the French critique considered “worthy of a Kadinskij’s
painting”, this search for the ideal land that has been going on since the dawn of time, keeps
creating important power struggles and many conflicts, and brings back the constant dilemma to
find a solution.
TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE
CAPPUCCETTO ROSSO (LITTLE RED RIDDING HOOD)
by Charles Perrault
text and direction Manuela Capece and Davide Doro
with Claudio Guain and Rosita d’Aiello
3 and up
National Première
> Teatro al Parco
November 23rd at 10.00
Cappucetto Rosso - Little Red Ridding Hood - in Charles Perrault’s oldest version, tells us about some
marvellous forest where a beautiful little girl gets lost and where she meets the worst of the Big bad
wolves. The wolf devours the grand-mother and then devours also the little girl. Perrault’s fable ends
like that without any solution nor any redemption, but with a moral. Italo Calvino said that Little Red
Ridding Hood was not a fairy tale but instead a narrating game to “scare” small children so they can deal
with their own fear. It’s precisely with this in mind that we need to tell you this story. (Davide Doro and
Manuela Capece)
PRINCIPIO ATTIVO TEATRO
LA BICICLETTA ROSSA (THE RED BICYCLE)
direction Giuseppe Semararo
playwright Valentina Diana
with Giuseppe Semeraro, Silvia Lodi, Otto Marco Mercante, Dario Cadei, Cristina Mileti
8 and up
Preview
> Teatro al Parco
November 23rd at 14.30
With the characteristics of a silent film and with some clownish traits, La Bicicletta Rossa – The Red
Bicycle – going through many different emotional states, such as laughing, or thinking, or being simply
plain emotional, tells the parabola of a family held in check by a made-up character called Bankomat.
Marta is the one who sees and tells everything. And Marta is a little girl who is still in her mother’s
tummy. This is a neo-realist tale about some pacifist and victorious revolt with all the ingredients of a
classical fable. A modern tale which explores the irruption of the economy, its mechanisms and its
overwhelming implications in the small universe of a family today.
GORGONZOLA DREAM
UNA TAZZA DI MARE IN TEMPESTA (A STORMY CUP OF SEA)
director Roberto Abbiati
with Roberto Abbiati, Luca Salata, Alessandro Calabrese
8 and up
> Teatro al Parco
November 25th at 14.30
Limited sitting
Melville’s masterpiece, the great story of Captain Ahab and his adventurous whale hunting doesn’t feel
a bit claustrophobic when closed in a small four by two meters room. It’s in this tiny space, reminding
maybe a whaling-ship’s hold that Roberto Abbiati evokes with his strange suggestions and his small
objects huge things such as: whales, sailboats, oceans. A miniaturization that involves not only space but
also time and public: a few spectators are invited for a few minutes to share “a stormy cup of sea”.
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TEATRO DELLE BRICIOLE
Construction site: New Visions for Young Audience
In 2010, Teatro delle Briciole inaugurated the “construction site” New Visions for Young Audience.
Therefore with the conviction that we need to be confronted with some theatrical experiences
quite different from what is usually called children-theatre, Teatro delle Briciole asked some young
groups involved in Italian research to create new shows for children.
The first show of this project was Baby don’t cry from Babilonia Teatri. And in 2011 Teatro
Sotterraneo followed the path with La Repubblica dei bambini – The Children Republic.
Zona Franca Festival is happy to present today and for the first time together the two shows that
came out of this Construction site.
LA REPUBBLICA DEI BAMBINI (THE CHILDREN REPUBLIC)
project entrusted to Teatro Sotterraneo
director Sara Bonaventura, Jacopo Braca, Claudio Cirri, Daniele Villa
with Daniele Bonaiuti, Chiara Renzi
in collaboration with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana
7 and up
> Teatro al Parco
November 24th at 11.00
The children in this show are asked to create a completely new state on their own. The stage is
then the space to make it happen, the place where reality and fiction will have to rise together.
Laws, money, institutions, diplomacy, business: What would happen if children, who are not by
definition active citizens, were to create a micro-nation?
“ It’s about a small Public Thing, it’s about a play where fiction is quite obvious since it is the motor
of our imagination; it’s about a mini-country that will disappear as soon as the stage-lights will go
off; but at the same time it’s also about some eventuality”. (Teatro Sotterraneo)
BABY DON’T CRY
project entrusted to Babilonia Teatri
text and direction Valeria Raimondi, Enrico Catellanio
with Marco Olivieri, Francesco Speri
7 and up
> Teatro al Parco
November 25th at 11.00
What’s going on when you cry? That’s what Babilonia Teatri asked the children in the schools of
Parma before creating a non-conventional show that describes the dreams and pains of today’s
childhood. Nursery rhymes in rap, pop-rock music, body-theatre to talk about desires, fashions,
conflicts, excess consuming, but also about the unexpected “craving to be listened to and the
great need for attention and warmth”.
“Crying is ordinary but also extraordinary. Crying is an every day thing but it’s also exceptional, it’s
both normal and amazing. We have discovered that crying isn’t at all taboo for children. Actually,
they easily speak about it, and they know how much they need to cry and how important it is to
cry.” (Babilonia Teatri).
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Installation in the foyer du Teatro al Parco
SCARLATTINETEATRO
MICROMIGNON
idea Anna Fascendini
still in process thanks to the generosity of Campsirago Residenza Monte di Brianza
> Teatro al Parco
November 22nd to 27 th
An owl nest. But also a “biciosca” and a “lumalena”. Strange words for strange objects that show
up in the foyer of Teatro al Parco and that the actors will help “perform” here and there.
“Micromachines” half way between theatre and visual art are welcoming the spectators the same
way an old amusement park would. Micromignon comes from the desire to be transported by the
magic of an object, of a sound, of a story. What will be presented at Zona Franca Festival is only a
part of this project which is in constant evolution. Other objects will follow “to keep finding the
theatre even outside of its usual space and time”.
Contacts
ZONA FRANCA INCONTEMPORANEA PARMA FESTIVAL
Associazione Micro Macro Festival
Teatro delle Briciole
tel. +39 0521 992044 – fax +39 0521 992048
[email protected]
www.solaresdellearti.it/teatrodellebriciole
For further information about the other Festivals
www.teatrodue.org
www.lenzrifrazioni.it