violenta la forza del morso che la ammutoliva
WITH ANNA BRAGAGNOLO, MORENO CALLEGARI, MARCO CROSATO, PAOLA DALLAN, MARCO MENEGONI, GAYANÉE MOVSISYAN, ALESSANDRO NARDO, VIVIANA CALLEGARI, MONICA TONIETTO
AND WITH HANNES PERKMANN, BENNO STEINEGGER
STAGE PLAY SIMONE DERAI, PATRIZIA VERCESI
DIRECTED BY SIMONE DERAI
COSTUME DESIGN SERENA BUSSOLARO, SILVIA BRAGAGNOLO, SIMONE DERAI
ORIGINAL MUSIC MAURO MARTINUZ, PAOLA DALLAN, MARCO MENEGONI, SIMONE DERAI, GAYANÉE MOVSISYAN, MONICA TONIETTO
VIDEO SIMONE DERAI, MARCO MENEGONI, MORENO CALLEGARI
PRODUCTION ANAGOOR 2012
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL, PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO, CENTRALE FIES, OPERAESTATE FESTIVAL VENETO
DATES 25 JUNE (H. 21.00)
VENUE CASTEL SANT’ELMO – AUDITORIUM
RUNNING TIME 1H 30MIN
LANGUAGE ITALIAN AND GERMAN (WITH SUBTITLES)
The Caucacus, 1942. Language and power: at the foot of the “mountain of languages” – 50 or more tongues which resist any attempt of normalisation in an impermeable ethno-cultural crossroads. Two Nazi officers, an SS officer and a linguist seconded to the service of the Third Reich analyse races and discuss the possibility of “scientifically” isolating the Jewish strain for extermination. The dialogue is presented in the form of a video and inspired by The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, progresses with a process of accumulation of fragments, variable, sonorous and visual evocations of startling intensity and beauty. Lingua imperii is a tangible result of a political theatre project started by the Castelfranco Veneto- based company 15 years ago. The theme of the Holocaust is interlaced with the wider theme of killing, a veritable massacre which has no historical frontiers, no stopping-point, from the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the genocide of the Armenians to the massacre of Srebrenica. On stage, nine actor-witnesses sing an undecipherable song using voices which are sometimes amplified and transformed into wind, and solar storms which blind the spectators’ vision of the sky and the horizon.
