A.P.R.T. - Pollicino

ACCADEMIA PERDUTA
ROMAGNA TEATRI
Teatro Stabile d'Arte Contemporanea

Accademia Perduta/Romagna Teatri, today Teatro Stabile d'Arte Contemporanea directed from Ruggero Sintoni and Claudio Casadio , recognized as one of the most established Theatre Companies in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal, was founded from a group of young actors in 1982 as a Children's Theatre Company.
From the moment of its foundation to to the present day, Accademia Perduta has been engaged in an intense and fertile activity of producing Children's Theatre.
Accademia Perduta's shows, written, directed and often performed from Claudio Casadio, are distinguished from a precise, original stylistic signature, which has become well recognizable over time.
A Children's Theater that goes beyond the "genre" to become a true art form, elaborated on some fundamental traits such as the attention to the fantastic, to the dreamlike and evocative imagery, to the emotional involvement of all spectators: the Children's Theater of Accademia Perduta is capable of making children dream, but also of making adults become children again a bit.

Ruggero Sintoni
was born to Faenza (RA) in 1955. After an important artistic experience with Julian Beck and Judith Malina's Living Theatre, he attended ...the Accademia Antoniana di Arte Drammatica in Bologna, graduating in 1981. The following year he was a founding member of the Accademia Perduta company, which over the years became a Teatro Stabile d'Arte Contemporanea of which Sintoni is still president. In the course of this experience, he is author and performer of several Children's Theater shows, a role he later abandoned to devote himself to the artistic direction, together with actor/director Claudio Casadio, of a "network" of theaters in Romagna (Masini in Faenza, Goldoni in Bagnacavallo, Il Piccolo in Forlì, Dragoni in Meldola, Comunale in Cervia) and various summer festivals in the province of Ravenna.
In 1993 and 1997 he designed and produced Teatri per la verità, reviews of performances whose proceeds were entirely donated to the Association of Relatives of the Victims of the Ustica Massacre. Ruggero Sintoni's commitment and involvement in this cause continued over the years, first with the production as part of Bologna 2000 European Capital of Culture of I-tigi Canto per Ustica with Marco Paolini and the Giovanna Marini Vocal Quartet, then with the founding in 2003, together with the Ass.ne Scenario and the Ass.ne dei Parenti delle Vittime della Strage di Ustica, of the "Premio Ustica per il Teatro di impegno civile e sociale."
In 1994/95 he attended the master's degree for "Gestione delle Attività Artistiche e Culturali" at S.D.to-L.Bocconi University of Milan. Since 1998 he has been a lecturer in professional training courses at some of the most prestigious Italian universities such as D.to.M.S. in Bologna and Bocconi University in Milan.
In 2004 he was elected President of the Association of Live Entertainment Enterprises (music, theater, dance) of AGIS Emilia-Romagna. Still in 2004 he designs and realizes, together with Alessandro Serena, an unprecedented and innovative form of circus/theater in the squares: shows in which acrobats from from all over the world interact with monuments and buildings. The project became concrete with the two editions of La notte delle Creature in Piazza del Popolo to Ravenna and with La Compagnia di Icaro in Piazza Saffi to Forlì. In the summer of 2006 he produced and toured to the most beautiful parishes in Romagna La Passione by Mario Luzi. In the same year he became a member of the National Executive ofto.N.T.to.C., AGIS National Association of Contemporary Art Stable Theaters.
In 2007, in collaboration with the Associazione Parenti delle Vittime della Strage di Ustica (Association of Relatives of the Victims of the Ustica Massacre), the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Province and Municipality of Bologna and the Orchestra Sinfonica "to.Toscanini," he designs and produces Ultimo volo - Orazione Civile per Ustica, opera of musical theater by Pippo Pollina, which debuts on June 27 at the Manzoni Theater in Bologna on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Ustica massacre. Since the same year he has been producing, in collaboration with Alessandro Serena for the Municipality of Bagnacavallo, Il Circo della Pace, a project of extraordinary artistic, cultural and social value (which is staged throughout the Christmas holidays) involving the entire town in a choral way. The first edition featured Parada and boys from Bucharest; the second, in 2008, the Sarakasi Association and acrobats from Nairobi. In May 2008, on the occasion of the Festival Arte Contemporanea in Faenza (RA), he produced the preview of the architectural visual show Natività to Faenza, a teaser that was a prelude to the production of a multimedia nativity scene projected on the Masini Theater in Faenza during the 2008/09 Christmas holidays. to this innovative and extraordinary show that assembles cinema, theater, music, animation, dance and architecture collaborated the most important Faentine artists of the various disciplines and the Municipality and Diocese of Faenza, Festival Arte Contemporanea, Confcooperative and Confindustria of Ravenna contributed. Nativity to Faenza was invited, in February 2009, to DivinaMente New York (USA) and, in April 2009, to DivinaMente Rome, International Festivals of Spirituality.
Together to RosettaFilm then co-produced two documentaries directed from Roberta Torre, Itiburtino terzo and La notte quando è morto Pasolini, which premiered at the Faenza Contemporary Art Festival in April 2009.

Claudio Casadio
was born to Ravenna in 1958. In 1982 he graduated from the Accademia Antoniana di Arte Drammatica in Bologna. In the same year he is a founding member of the Accademia Perduta company which becomes, over the years, a Teatro Stabile d'Arte Contemporanea of which Casadio is artistic co-director along with to Ruggero Sintoni.
Claudio Casadio begins his intense artistic activity right from away: in fact, as early as 1982 he is co-author and performer of La fiaba dell'oro e del sapone, a Children's Theater show that, over the years, has exceeded one thousand performances. In 1983 he co-authored and performed in The Island of Time, or The Golden Apple of the King's Throne. In the following years, in addition to being an author and performer, he begins to directing numerous Children's Theater shows produced from Accademia Perduta that stand out thanks to an original "stylistic code" that can be summarized in some very precise traits: attention to the fantastic, to a magical, dreamlike and evocative dimension, emotional involvement of all spectators. To recall a few titles: Sailors; The False Son of the Mad Prince; The Stain - pantomime for a comic strip; Cipì: the enchanted nest; Homer's Library; The Forest of Stories; Turandot; The Angel, the Soldier and the Devil; The Fairy Tale in the Closet; Hänsel & Gretel; Flag. Ballad for a Leaf; The Pied Piper.
In 2002, he co-authored and directed I musicanti di Bremen, a show that, in the same year, won the "L'uccellino azzurro" Prize at the eighth "Ti fiabo e ti racconto" Festival in Molfetta (BA). The show will also receive the prestigious ETI "Stregagatto" Award as "Best Children's Theater Show."
In 2004 Claudio Casadio is engaged in his first international tour: Hänsel & Gretel, translated into several languages, is performed in major French and Spanish cities (among others: Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, Narbonne, Dijon, Nanterre, Brest, Reims). In the following Theatrical Seasons, the request for the show from by European Theaters and Festivals increases and Hänsel & Gretel will arrive, in November 2008, to represent Italy at the "THEATER/TEATRO Theaterherbst in Berlin", an important Festival organized by ETI in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture to Berlin.
Still in 2004 begins "the adventure" of Pollicino, a play written from Marcello Chiarenza and directed from Gianni Bissaca. With this play, to date one of the most performed and awarded plays of his career, Casadio toured extensively in the most prestigious Italian theaters (examples are Il Piccolo in Milan and the Eliseo in Rome) and, always translated into their respective languages, in France, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal. In 2005, Tom Thumb was a guest at "Teatralia," the most important Festival of Performing Arts in all of Spain; two years later it won first prize at the Momix Festival in Kingersheim (France) and, in 2008, the prestigious Golden Ticket AGIS - ETI as the "Most-watched Children's Theater Show in the 2007/2008 Season."
With a talent now recognized in European theater circles, he is called to to design, produce and direct the Spanish-language version of The Musicians of Bremen, which takes the title of Los musicos de Bremen.
In 2009, he made his film debut, playing the male lead in the upcoming film L'uomo che verrà, directed from Giorgio Diritti.

Recommended age: 5 - 10 years old

by Marcello Chiarenza
with Claudio Casadio
original music Beppe Turletti
direction Gianni Bissaca

Thumbelina offers children's audiences an opportunity to confront the feeling of fear. The story of Tom Thumb is, in fact, a "dark fairy tale": "How do you to sleep? It may be fear, but I can't," says Tom Thumb to his older siblings.
The protagonist of the story is small, the smallest, but his fear, great, does not annihilate him.
What, on the contrary, makes him victorious in the face of life's adversities is his curiosity and his courageous desire to know reality, even in its cruelest aspects.
It is curiosity that drives Thumbel to vigilant about what his parents say and do, and he is able to warn of danger early on and equip himself to deal with it.
Claudio Casadio lives and tells, at the same time, the story, evoking it and relating it, to sometimes directly, to the audience. With just a few objects on stage, Thumbelina will lead the young spectators into a magical and dreamlike world, with the complicity of an ironic narration, to traits of folk style.

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