UBU AND THE TRUTH COMMISSION

REGIA/DIRECTED BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
TESTO/WRITTEN BY JANE TAYLOR
MARIONETTE/MARIONETTES ADRIAN KOHLER
ANIMAZIONE/ANIMATION WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
SCENE/SET DESIGN ADRIAN KOHLER, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
COSTUMI/COSTUME DESIGN ADRIAN KOHLER
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN WESLEY FRANCE
SUONO/SOUND DESIGN WILBERT SCHUBEL
MUSICA/MUSIC WARRICK SONY, BRENDAN JURY
COREOGRAFIA/CHOREOGRAPHY ROBYN ORLIN
CON/WITH DAWID MINNAAR, BUSI ZOKUFA
E CON/AND WITH GABRIEL MARCHAND, MANDISELI MASETI, MONGI  MTHOMBENI
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY
IN COPRODUZIONE CON/IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (UNITED KINGDOM), THE TAIPEI ARTS FESTIVAL AND TAIPEI CULTURE FOUNDATION (TAIWAN), FESTIVAL DE MARSEILLE _ DANSE ET ARTS MULTIPLES (FRANCE), ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE (GREECE), CAL PERFORMANCES BERKELEY (USA), BOZAR BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
CON IL SOSTEGNO DI/WITH THE SUPPORT OF NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, SOUTH AFRICA

date/dates 9, 10 luglio/july h 21.00
luogo/venue teatro mercadante
durata/running time 1h 30min
lingua/language inglese con sottotitoli in italiano/english with subtitles in italian
paese/country sudafrica/south africa

William Kentridge brings to Naples Ubu and the Truth Commission, a performance from 1997, and in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company. This performance – an adaptation of the masterpiece by Alfred Jarry – brings together marionette theatre, acting, music, animation and repertory images. The performance is inspired by the minutes of the
“Commission for Truth and Reconciliation” created to document testimonials on the Apartheid system, but also refers to Jarry’s work Ubu Roi in which the protagonists are a brutal, stupid tyrant and an unscrupulous, perfidious bride. The Ubu couple, as imagined by Jarry in 1896, are transported a century later to South Africa where they become the protagonists of a performance in which the grotesque and the burlesque are represented side-by-side for the sake of memory and duty.
The plot is constructed around a historical metaphor of betrayal which leads us to the devastating complexity of Apartheid.