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MY LIFE WITH MEN AND OTHER ANIMALS Maria Cassi My Life with Men... and Other Animals offers an exhilaratingly intensive course on love, seduction, death and…olive oil! The production – in Italian and English – turns on its head the American concept of Italian romance and womanhood, demystifying archetypes created through movies and television and stars like Gina Lollabrigida, Anna Magnani, and Sophia Loren. |
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HAPPY DAYS Robert Wilson In this play written in 1960/61, Samuel Beckett explores a melancholy subject, steeped in humour, which today even more than in the past, asks for attention and move our souls: on our way to senescence, when we feel more fragile because of the effects of time, how can we live, feel and even hope the happiness? |
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KRAPP'S LAST TAPE Robert Wilson Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a solo/dialogue. One actor onstage carries on a conversation with his own voice recorded many years before. Robert Wilson not only directs and designs, but also performs the work, his first appearance as an actor since his Hamlet: a monologue. |
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THREEPENNY OPERA Robert Wilson The Threepenny Opera is extremely fluid and enjoyable in its form but rich of implications and cultural and political references. Wilson´s interpretation of Brecht to the Berliner Ensemble is comical, sensual, grotesque and perverted. He exploits the story in every aspect, depth and angle, turning the sequence upside down. |
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TERRANOVA SINFONIA ANTARCTICA DJ Spooky Global warming and geo-political boundaries are critical and pressing issues of our day. Reflecting on these imperatives, artist Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, transformed his experience of a trip to Antarctica into a multimedia work of singular style. His latest piece confirms his commitment for the most urgent themes of our era. |
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TAIKO Leonard Eto Leonard Eto’s unique approach to taiko (Japanese drums) and to his solo performances is characterized by the originality of his musical creations. He creates an astonishing range of emotions with his instruments - hopelessness, euphoria and everything between, sweeping the audience regularly off their feet: Eto loves dance music, and loves his audience to dance to his music. |
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CLASSE MORTA Tadeusz Kantor Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre piece “The Dead Class” is to be considered a fundamental work of 20iest century theatre history. Childhood memories, remembrance and the omnipresent sentiment of death are the material for this “dramatic seance” (as Kantor himself called it) that is located in the corner of a dark and indefinite space at the light of a simple bulb. |
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THE BLUE PLANET Peter Greenaway / Saskia Boddeke The performance conceived by Greenaway and Boddeke has the shape of a modern multimedia oratory, which blends the art of the actor, the singing and live music with modern technologies: high definition images which reproduce aspects of reality, but even a God and a Noah who meet and talk to each other in a virtual way which seems to be very similar to Second Life. |
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JOURNEY TO THE MOON & NINE DRAWINGS FOR PROJECTION William Kentridge South African artist William Kentridge has reached international success thanks to an extraordinary sequence of animated short films using his unique charcol erase technique. The films, which have been created between 1989 and 2003, have now been gathered for the first time in a single body of work on 35mm film. |
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SUPPLICI Vacis / Pirrotta / Centanni Merging the ancient tradition of Greek tragedy of Aeschylus and the Sicilian tradition of cunto to the dramatic news of our days, with one of the most appreciated actor of the new Italian generation, Vincenzo Pirrotta, under the direction of Gabriele Vacis (also on stage as narrator) a new production premiered in 2009 on the Sicilian coast. |
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KOOL Robert Wilson Robert Wilson homage for Suzushi Hanayagi shows his feeling for dignity and beauty of elderly people. Dancing in my mind - a videoportrait is an electronic mosaique of fragments and sequences. Robert Wilsons feeling fort he dignity and beauty for elder people shows real magnitude. |
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CIRCUS OZ Circus Oz is a world-famous, globe-roving icon. For over 30 years Circus Oz has been touring the globe, as well as entertaining generations of Australians at home. From New York to Hong Kong, the company has taken its self-crafted performances to 26 countries across 5 continents. |