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EVA RICCOBONO
ANDRÉE RUTH SHAMMAH
The first text by award-winning Scottish playwright David Harrower reveals in its invented language, and in the reflection revolving around the very nature of language, a power with strong contemporary resonance. Andrée Ruth Shammah's direction invades the boundaries of the rural and archaic universe outlined by the author, from the perspective of the search for a powerful experience, where the investigation and discovery of the pronunciation of the Word reveal the purest origin of theater.
The scene, signed from Margherita Palli, is developed on two levels, telling both the rural context in which the story revolving around the three characters is set, through the presence on stage of scale models of the places of the text, acted by the actors themselves, and its contemporary echo with a stage space characterized from a strong stylization. It will be the videos, in collaboration with Luca Scarzella, as well as Michele Tadini's music and Camilla Piccioni's lighting, that will accompany the spectator on a journey that moves from an almost philological realism toward an abstraction of feeling.
Eva Riccobono, playing the Young Woman, whose name will never be pronounced (but written down without the audience being able to read it), brings to the stage, stimulated in her physicality by Isa Traversi's to body work, the freshness and purity of a female character caught in her formative journey. The male performers, Alberto Astorri, as William, the Young Woman's husband, and Pietro Micci, the miller Gilbert who will seduce the protagonist's mind in an unsurprising way, present two spheres of the masculine that become symbols of two diametrically opposed worlds, eras and sensibilities.
An unusual show in the artistic journey of Andrée Ruth Shammah, who takes up the challenge from this text for which she immediately felt a strong fascination for the power of the writing, poetic and carnal at the same time, and for the design of the three characters, three autonomous lives, three solitudes to comparison so primitive and original.
by David Harrower
translation **Monica Capuani **and Andrée Ruth Shammah
directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah
with
**Eva Riccobono **YoungWoman.
**Alberto Astorri **PonyWilliam
**Pietro Micci **GilbertHorn
scenes Margherita Palli with the collaboration of Marco Cristini
lights Camilla Piccioni
costumes Sasha Nikolaeva
music Michele Tadini
video Luca Scarzella
artistic collaboration** Isa Traversi**
assistant directors Beatrice Cazzaro, Lorenzo Ponte
assistant set designer Katarina Stancic
video assistant** Anna Frigo**
scenes constructed at the Franco Parenti Theater workshop
in collaboration with the students of the Three-year BA in Scenography at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti** Chiara Carrettoni, Chiara Sgrignuoli, Martino Grande, Francesca Pesce and Kelly Linciano**
costumes made at the **sartoria del Teatro Franco Parenti **directed from Simona Dondoni
production Teatro Franco Parenti / Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in collaboration with Spoleto 62 Festival dei 2Mondi
Andrée Ruth Shammah's artistic history began at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan with Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi, but it took shape with the opening of the Pier Lombardo Hall, now the Franco Parenti Theater - founded in 1973 together with other artists and intellectuals such as Franco Parenti, Giovanni Testori, Dante Isella and Gian Maurizio Fercioni - which became from from the very beginning a cultural reference point for the city of Milan, characterized by an innovative idea: not only a place for performances, but a meeting point and comparison of city culture. Since 1989 she has been the sole manager of the Franco Parenti Theater Cooperative, which became a Social Enterprise in 2012. She is its artistic director, animator, organizer and impresario, and her work is constantly careful to to safeguard the level of quality and cultural coherence that lies at the origins of the theater's birth. Over the course of her long career, she has signed more than one hundred stage directions (many of which are now in the history of Italian theater), from the Testorian Trilogy to the most recent Gli Innamorati by Goldoni, A Doll's House by Ibsen with Filippo Timi and The Imaginary Sick Man by Molière with Gioele Dix, The Work of Living by Hanoch Levin with Carlo Cecchi, _Memorie di Adriana _with Adriana Asti and Cita to ciegas by Argentine playwright Mario Diament. She has also signed the direction of theatrical projects on video for RAI and several opera productions, two of them, Kagel´s Varieté and Donizetti´s L´Elisir d´amore, for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Her numerous awards include the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in 2011, the 2015 Paolo Emilio Poesio Critic Award from the National Association of Theatre Critics, and the Marisa Bellisario Golden Apple Award in 2016. For her intellectual restlessness, for her questioning of everything, which, to times, becomes a creative approach and research method in her artistic projects and directions, Andrée Ruth Shammah holds a unique place in the Italian theater scene.
Born to Palermo, from Italian father and German mother. Very young she moved to Milan, and in a short time became one of the most famous top models on the international scene, in demand by the world's leading photographers such as Bruce Weber, Arthur Elgort, Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Testino, Gilles Bensimon, Annie Leibovitz, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, Craig McDean, Peter Lindbergh, David Bailey, Miles Aldridge. She walks the runway for top designer labels and of many she becomes a testimonial for worldwide campaigns: Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferrè, Emanuel Ungaro, Dolce & Gabbana. On the small screen he made his debut in 2002, flanking Fiorello in the program "Stasera pago io." She made her film debut in 2008 to alongside Carlo Verdone in the comedy Big Big and Verdone. In 2013 Eva Riccobono wins the Ciak dʼOro as best supporting actress. At the same time she gets a Silver Ribbon nomination in the same category for the role of Simonetta in Marco Pontiʼs film Passione Sinistra. Also in 2013 she stars in Luigi Cecinelliʼs film Niente può fermarci. In September 2013 she was nominated Godmother of the 70th Venice Film Festival. In 2014 she is among the performers in Renato De Mariaʼs new film_ La vita oscena_, based on Aldo Noveʼs novel of the same name. In 2016 he came out, with a role from co-starring, in the cinema with the film _La cena di Natale by Marco Ponti. In 2017 at Teatro Franco Parenti she stars in the play Stasera si può entrare fuori _directed from Andrée Ruth Shammah. In 2018 she is Antonia in the Mediaset series "Made in Italy."