Democracy in America

Theatre

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Freely inspired by the book by Alexis De Tocqueville
Direction, scenes, lights, costumes by Romeo Castellucci
Texts by Claudia Castellucci and Romeo Castellucci
Music by Scott Gibbons
With: Olivia Corsini, Giulia Perelli, Gloria Dorliguzzo, Evelin Facchini, Stefania Tansini, Sophia Danae Vorvila and twelve local dancers
Choreography freely inspired by the folk traditions of Albania, Greece, Botswana, England, Hungary, Sardinia
With choreographic interventions by Evelin Facchini, Gloria Dorliguzzo, Stefania Tansini, Sophia Danae Vorvila
Assistant director: Maria Vittoria Bellingeri
Maître répétiteur: Evelin Facchini
Stage sculptures and mechanisms: Istvan Zimmermann and Giovanna Amoroso
Costume realisation: Grazia Bagnaresi
Footwear: Collectif d’Anvers
Stage Manager: Pierantonio Bragagnolo
Stage-hands: Andrei Benchea, Giuliana Rienzi
Lighting board technician: Giacomo Gorini, Andre Sanson
Sound board technician: Paolo Cillerai
Costumes keeper: Elisabetta Rizzo
Photographer: Guido Mencari
Technical direction: Eugenio Resta
Technical production staff: Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Daniele Magnani
Decorator: Silvano Santinelli
Production supervisor: Benedetta Briglia
Promotion and distribution: Valentina Bertolino and Gilda Biasini
Production assistant: Giulia Colla
Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
Economic consultant: Massimiliano Coli
Executive production: Societas
A co-production with: deSingel International Artcampus; Wiener Festwochen; Festival Printemps des Comédiens à Montpellier; National Taichung Theatre in Taichung, Taiwan; Holland Festival Amsterdam; Schaubühne-Berlin; MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny with Festival d’Automne à Paris; Le Manège - Scène nationale de Maubeuge; Teatro Arriaga Antzokia de Bilbao; São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon; Peak Performances Montclair State University (NJ-USA)
With the participation of: Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne and Athens and Epidaurus Festival
The activity of Societas is supported by : Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali, Regione Emilia Romagna, Comune di Cesena

ph. Guido Mencari
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from 23/02/2019 to 24/02/2019
"This performance is not political. This performance is not so much a reflexion on politics, as – if anything – on its end."
RC, February 2016

In 1835, for the first time, a European turns his eyes away from Athens. Alexis de Tocqueville witnesses the birth of the United States of America at the time when a new Democracy was being created from the seeds of the principles of Puritanism and a true equality among individuals. This implies the decline of Tragedy, understood politically as an awareness and comprehension of being. The great artificial laboratory of the negligence of being – Tragedy – has thus been dismissed, forever. The vital and antibiotic experiment inherent in Athenian democracy has been relegated to the archive, along with the attempt – for the brief duration of a performance at the Theatre of Dionysus – to situate oneself beyond the limits of democracy itself, so as to listen, time and time again, to the dysfunction of existence, the lament of the expiatory victim, whom no politics is able – even today – to save. No more sacrifice, but still no politics. No more Gods, but still no city of man. The Scapegoat has been driven out, the knife has fallen out of our hands, and the sky is empty, new, blue and cold. All that remains is the empty ceremony that celebrates the grandeur of this loss.

watch the video
listen to the interview (in French)


performances:
23rd February 08:30 pm
24th February 04:00 pm
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