WITH MARCO MENEGONI, GAYANÉE MOVSISYAN, MASSIMILIANO BRIARAVA, MORENO CALLEGARI, MARTA KOLEGA, GLORIA LINDEMAN, PAOLA DALLAN, MONICA TONIETTO, ARTEMIO TOSELLO, EMANUELA GUIZZON
AND WITH THE SPECIAL PARTICIPATION OF MARCO CAVALCOLI
VIDEO CONCEPT SIMONE DERAI, MORENO CALLEGARI, GIULIO FAVOTTO
STAGE PLAY SIMONE DERAI, PATRIZIA VERCESI
DIRECTED BY SIMONE DERAI
COSTUME DESIGN SERENA BUSSOLARO, SIMONE DERAI
SET DESIGN SIMONE DERAI, LUISA FABRIS, GUERRINO PEROSIN
MUSIC MAURO MARTINUZ
PRODUCTION ANAGOOR 2014
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH FESTIVAL DELLE COLLINE TORINESI, CENTRALE FIES, OPERAESTATE FESTIVAL VENETO, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB-STUDENT CENTRE IN ZAGREB-CULTURE OF CHANGE
DATES 26 JUNE (H. 21.00)
VENUE CASTEL SANT’ELMO – AUDITORIUM
RUNNING TIME 1H 40MIN
LANGUAGE ITALIAN AND LATIN (WITH SUBTITLES)
Rome, 22 B.C. Poetry and power, beauty and violence, memory and consensus: through their performance Virgilio brucia Anagoor deals with these themes from a side-angle, entering into the laboratory of the intellectual who had foreseen the demise of Imperial Rome. There is much prejudice on the figure of Publius Vergilius Maro – commonly known as Virgil – the bard of Octavius Augustus and who extinguished any hope of transforming Imperial Rome into a Republic. A poet at the service of imperial ideology, but Anagoor identifies some flaws. Firstly, the two books of his Aeneid that he read to Augustus and which narrate the violence and destruction meted on Ilio and the Trojan kingdoms, and the journey into the after world, the definitive turning point of the past exiled to memory. Thus Virgilio brucia is an opportunity to ponder on the relationship between art and power, the function of culture and that of memory, imperial warfare, and violence. Anagoor’s language is characterised by its clarity and luminosity, a dramaturgy made of symbolic gestures which plays between ritual and rarefied suspension.
