Calderón

Theatre

Calderón is directed by Fabio Condemi, one of the most interesting young Italian directors, already a winner of a Ubu Prize. Condemi has worked on Pasolini in 2019 too, conceiving and directing an amazing monologue inspired by Pasolini’s film scripts.

Calderón is a tragedy in verse inspired by the masterpiece of the great seventeenth-century author Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream. But the atmosphere, the plot, and the context are radically different: we are in Franco’s Spain of the 60s, amidst revolutionary turmoil and logic of power that seem to leave no other space for freedom than in Diego Velázquez’s dream or painting. Pasolini’s is in fact a ruthless and lucid x-ray of power, of its way of renewing itself and remaining very ancient, of its changes and its strategies.
A labyrinthine text in which multiple levels and traces coexist in a continuous and very rich interlocking game. Traces that make Calderón a very dense text in which viewers are called to question deeply about our being in history. A text that through dreams desperately questions reality.

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from 01/03/2024 to 02/03/2024 hour 20.00
Calderón
by  Pier Paolo Pasolini
direction, set, and costume conception  Fabio Condemi
with  (in alphabetic order) Donatella Allegro, Marco Cavalcoli, Bianca Cavallotti, Nico Guerzoni, Fortunato Leccese , Omar Madé, Giulia Luna Mazzarino, Caterina Meschini, Elena Rivoltini, Giulia Salvarani, Emanuele Valenti
set, image dramaturgy  Fabio Cherstich
costumes  Gianluca Sbicca
light design  Marco Giusti
sound design  Alberto Tranchida
assistant director  Angelica Azzellini
set realized in  ERT scenography studio
head of scenography studio and carpenter  Gioacchino Gramolini
carpenters  Tiziano Barone, Davide Lago, Sergio Puzzo, Veronica Sbrancia, Leandro Spadola
set decorators  Ludovica Sitti with Sarah Menichini, Benedetta Monetti, Bianca Passanti, Martina Perrone
iron set elements realized by  Falegnameria Scheggia
assistant to the set project  Greta Maria Cosenza
costumes realized in  the wardrobe studio of Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro D’Europa
technical director  Massimo Gianaroli
stage manager  Lorenzo Martinelli/Claudio Bellagamba
stagehands  Rebecca Quintavalle/Veronica Sbrancia and Davide Lago
prop woman  Benedetta Monetti
head electrician  Giuseppe Tomasi/Camila Chiozza
sound technician  Alberto Tranchida
wardrobe  Elena Dal Pozzo/Eleonora Terzi
video documentation  Lucio Fiorentino
production  Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
in collaboration with  Associazione Santacristina Centro Teatrale
within the project “Come devi immaginarmi” (How you should imagine me) dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini

photos Luca Del Pia
The performance is realized within the international project “Prospero Extended Theatre”, thanks to the support of the programme ‘Creative Europe’ of the EU
thanks to Acondroplasia Insieme per crescere Onlus
reproduction of the picture Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez from the Photography Archive of the National Museum of Prado (Madrid)
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