CREDITS
TOUR INFO
Robert Wilson
Adriana Asti
Luxembourg
Grand Theatre de Luxembourg
(French version)
24 - 26 September 2008
Spoleto, Italy
52 Festival dei due mondi
Teatro Caio Melisso
27 June and2-5 July 2009
Prato, Italy
Teatro Metastasio
4-8 November 2009
Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Comunale
19- 22 November 2009
Naples, Italy
Teatro Mercadante
25 November - 6 December 2009
Bari, Italy
Teatro Piccinni
9-13 December 2009
Bergamo, Italy
Teatro Donizetti
(French version)
24 - 26 September 2008
Jesi, Italy
Teatro Pergolesi
15-16 January 2010
Pavia, Italy
Teatro Fraschini
19-21 January 2010
Como, Italy
Teatro Sociale
23-24 January 2010
St.Polten, Austria
Landestheater
(French version)
28-29 January 2010
Aosta, Italy
Teatro Giacosa
3-4 February 2010
Cremona, Italy
Teatro Ponchielli
6-7 February 2010
Piacenza, Italy
Teatro Municipale
16-17 February 2010
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
International Theatre Festival
Grande Teatro do Palacio das Artes
(French version)
14-15 August 2010
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Teatro Sao Pedro
(French version)
9-11 September 2010
Paris, France
Theatre Athenee
(French version)
3 September - 9 October 2010
Rome, Italy
Teatro Valle
15-24 October 2010
Udine, Italy
Teatro Giovanni da Udine
27-30 October 2010
Milan, Italy
Piccolo Teatro Strehler
(French version)
9-14 November 2010
Santiago, Chile
Festival Santiago a Mil
(French version)
27-30 January 2011
Beckett brings us in the world of a mature lady. She is buried to the waist into a mound. In the vision of Robert Wilson it is the result of an eruption in the asphalt.
The lower part of the body is immobile and hidden to the others. She only communicates with her arms, her hands, her face, her words and her eyes full of life.
She tries to turn every day in a happy day. She tries to find moments of happiness through a ritual created by herself . She collects her daily objects around her, she talks with them and when she touches them, the objects reminds her the past and she is then able to smile. This ritual gives her strength and she finds in it a meaning for her life, in spite of the decline of her mobility. A particular chance for her is the presence of her husband, Willie, who shows for her some kind of affection even if he is not very talkative. And finally, maybe at the end of the last day, it's not surprising that she sings their favourite melody, the struggling tune of "The Merry Widow"... "Lippen schweigen"...
credits
HAPPY DAYSItalian translation Carlo Fruttero
Conceived, designed and directed by Robert Wilson
Costumes and make up Jacques Reynaud
Dramaturgy Ellen Hammer
Lights A.J. Weissbard
Sound Peter Cerone and Emre Sevindik
With
Adriana Asti as Winnie
and
Giovanni Battista Storti as Willie*
*(formerly performed by Yann de Graval)
A project by
Change Performing Arts
commissioned by
Spoleto52 Festival dei 2 Mondi
and
Grand Theatre de Luxembourg
produced by CRT Artificio, Milan