Started today Niger and Albus the 52nd International Theater Festival of the Venice Biennale, directed by Stefano Ricci And Gianni Forte (curly/strong).
«An extraordinary adventure», promise the directors in their fourth year of mandate, the Festival will enliven Venice and Forte Marghera with 130 artists, 55 appointments, 16 premieres, of which 7 are productions and co-productions of the Biennale.
«If we cannot imagine a better and more harmonious world – they say Stefano Ricci And Gianni Forte -, we will never have the necessary means to rebuild it. Niger and Albus becomes then, in this 52nd edition of the Festival, the promise of a new light that makes its way: rich in performances and magnetic shows, it will continue to belong to all of us by interfacing with our essences, curiosity, our aspirations, contradictions, our vulnerabilities to amaze us by telling the metamorphosis of a world in perpetual movement. With inventive energy, the versatility of the most heterogeneous proposals, the Festival will offer an unparalleled adventure, remaining for spectators a space of desire, wonder, a crossroads of debates and comparisons, resolutely radiating the vitality of the city of Venice, and beyond” .
The new generations at the 52nd International Theater Festival
New creativity finds space in the 52nd International Theater Festival with playwrights, directors, performers and young artists selected for Biennale College.
It is the case of Stefano Fortin And Carolina Balucaniauthors respectively of Ash And Sleeping Beautytexts which, after last year’s stage readings, debut in finished form directed by Giorgina Pi And Fabrizio Arcuri.
Still on the drama front, this year will be the turn of Rosalind Accounts with This is how things were as soon as the light was bornof which we will see the stage reading curated by Martina BadiluzziWhile Eliana Rotella and its Bruise will always be seen in the form of a stage reading by the hand of Fabio Condemi.
Also Ciro Galloranoafter a series of preparatory stages from which he emerges as the winner of the Directors’ College, will present his film on the festival stage Chrysalises«an intimate investigation around the great evocative questions of Francesca Woodman, in resonance with today’s anxieties».
Freshly appointed on the performance front site specific and finally, Elia Pangaro with Fireball | deus ex machina«a work on the speed that characterizes our time, canceling out its meaning», which will be seen in action in via Garibaldi.
The new trends of the contemporary scene
The “game-changers” of the contemporary scene, companies that are expression of new forms of theatricality and a new way of being spectators, they will be guests of the 52nd International Theater Festival.
Back to Back Theatrethe award-winning Australian group that finds disability as a tool for artistic investigation, winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, will be in Italy for the first time at the Biennale with one of its shows, Food Court.
Gob Squad Theatrethe Anglo-German collective that will receive the Silver Lion, will be at the Festival with two emblematic works: Creation (Picture for Dorian) and Elephants in Roomsmultiple screen visual installation.
The Lithuanian ensemble – made up of the writer – is on the same wavelength Vaiva Grainytethe musician Lina Lapelytethe director Rugile Barzdžiukaite and already awarded the Golden Lion for the best pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2019 – will present Have a Good Day!an opera for ten supermarket cashiers and piano that is a subtly subversive attack on our consumerist rituals.
Iranian director and playwright Amir Reza Koohestanipresent on the major stages of Europe for years, will be in Venice with his latest show, Blind Runnerwhere the high psychological tension melee between a man and a woman is intertwined with the history of oppression of his country.
It’s still. The actor, author, director who established himself on the scene not only in Britain thanks to the strength of his texts, Tim Crouchwill be on stage with Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel in the part of the Fool of King Lear, giving body and voice to the last piece of a cycle of monologues, spin-offs of the Bard’s comedies and tragedies that tackle Shakespeare from the sidelines, using the gaze of the minor characters.
Self Luanda CasellaBrazilian director, writer and performer living in Ghent, rewrites the Oresteia focusing on Electra, the Swedish artist and director Markus Öhrn with Karol Radziszewski, Polish photographer and artist, report in Phobia the violence and stereotypes that hover over gender minorities.
The multidisciplinary artist Miet Warlop returns to Venice with its magical world where everything, people and objects, is ready to come to life and transform into the strangest creatures, as in After All Springville.
Veterans from the Parisian success for the installation Bar Lunamade at the Center Pompidou with Alice Rohrwacher, the director Claudia Sorace and playwright and sound artist Riccardo Faziartistic nucleus of Muta Imagotackle a theater classic for the first time, Three sisters by Chekhov.
At the end, Milo Rau and his militant theater in Venice reserves the national premiere of Medea’s Childrenwhich takes inspiration, once again, from a real criminal case, to intertwine modern tragedy and classical tragedy.
The masterclasses beyond the Festival
Gob Squad, Vaiva Grainyté, Lina Lapelyté, Rugilé Barzdžiukaité, Davide Carnevali, Tim Crouch, Muta Imago, Gianni Staropoli they will be the artists in residence for the masterclasses that integrate the festival program. Objective: to launch an in-depth look at all aspects of making theater today.
