Three new nominations enrich the palmares of the multi-award-winning show MADE in ILVA: “Best direction” and “Best stage designer” for director Anna Dora Dorno and “Best actor” for performer Nicola Pianzola. The nominations are from the Saint Muse Academy of Ulan Bator, where MADE IN ILVA will be on stage within the 17th edition of the Saint Muse International Theater Festival, organized by the Saint Muse Academy with the support of the International Theatre Institute ITI in Mongolia.
We have to wait for the closing and award ceremony of the festival (September 17) to know if the nominations will turn into new awards for a show that – translated and performed in four languages – this year celebrates its 12 years of world tours.
on September 11, moreover, Anna Dora and Nicola will direct a theatre workshop, entitled The Organic Body, at the University of Ulaanbaatar, aimed at actors and dancers of the Mongolian contemporary theatre scene.


MADE IN ILVA - The contemporary Hermit draws inspiration from the diary of a worker of the ILVA in Taranto and from the testimonies of some workers in the same factory, interviewed by the company, to meet the poetic texts by Luigi Di Ruscio and Peter Shneider.
What is more topical in Italian society than the ILVA tragedy? The biggest steelworks of Europe was a dream of prosperity and employment for an entire land. Who does not remember the advertisement "Made in Italy", "made in Ilva"? Now it is a nightmare called environmental damage, a poisoned land and the impossible choice between jobs and health.
A man, a factory worker lives with the conflict of wishing to escape from the incandescent steel cage and needing to carry on working in that hell to survive. He is imprisoned in a mechanical and repetitive existence, in a post-modern landscape where the alienation of the production line reduces the human being to an artificial machine.
The scene is set with metal structures continuously transformed by lights, video projections and the performer's actions interacting with music and sounds that become obsessive rhythms, while a persuasive voice orders him "work, produce, act, create...".