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#SIneNOmine
CRETA
Giorgio Flamini brings theater in prison back to Festival dei Due Mondi as a tool for personal growth and inclusion. The new show of the #SIneNOmine company, CRETA, was born from a theater workshop held in the Spoleto House of Detention and aimed at the knowledge of the compositional complexity of the theatrical language.
The Crete of the Minoan civilization is the place where the laboratory research finds its fulfillment. "The prisoner moves in a space-time labyrinth like a Minotaur who is allowed no other action than that of uniformity, of repetition," says director Giorgio Flamini. "A Minotaur who only mirrors himself in an image that sends him back to himself, where his movements are the same as others and are the same every day. A kind of repetitive ritual where every exception remains precisely so. But just as in ritual, the concept of repetition taken to its exasperation can be torn apart by Dionysian intoxication. What road will this outpouring of primordial vitality take? The road of destruction, of unconscious violence as with Minotaur, or that of purification through the most authentic expression of the self?"
Just as clay can be shaped by giving it new form, a human being, and even more so an inmate of a maximum security prison, thanks to art can reassemble certain fragments, understand its nature, accept it and transform it into something unique: the same person as before with new and precious veins.
With the inmates of the Spoleto House of Detention
directed from Giorgio Flamini
conception, text adaptation, fragment development, direction Giorgio Flamini, Sara Ragni, Pina Segoni
texts by Hesiod, Apollodorus, Ovid, Lucian, Bacchylides, Aeschylus... Gide, Kazantzakis, Borges, Dürrenmatt, Yourcenar, Cortazar, Tabucchi, Pavese...
scenes created in the set design workshop by the inmates of the second level art pathway, Maria Paola Buono, Giorgio Flamini
With free and prisoner actors and actresses
choreography by Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio, Serena Perna, Lorena Salis
Sport and Health-Prison Directed workshops from Eunoand Flamenco Roma
staged movement and acting workshops directed from Sara Ragni
dancers Euno Terni
digital musical contributions by Anna Flamini
music and choir Francesco Corrias and Lucia Napoli
Choir ad cantus vocal ensemble & friends
filmed contributions by #SIneNOmine and P. Elisei
stage photos Vincenzo Porfilio and Antonello Zeppadoro
videomaker Giovanni Barchi
costumes #SIneNomine
we thank Bernardina di Mario, Director of the Spoleto House of Reclusion, Monique Veaute, Artistic Director of Festival dei Due Mondi, Paola Macchi Administrative Director and General Organization Festival dei Due Mondi, Commander Vanna Falconi and all the staff of the Penitentiary Police, the Bureau of Supervision, Spoleto Magistrates Grazia Manganaro and Nicla Flavia Restivo, Pietro Carraresi and the entire treatment area, the Sansi-Leonardi-Volta Institute of Education and the IPSEOASC G.De Carolis
production Casa di Reclusione di Maiano di Spoleto, Fondazione Francesca, Valentina e Luigi Antonini, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Teodolapio
Please be advised that dates and times may be subject to change.
See www.festivaldispoleto.com for updates.
The #SINENOMINE project began as a theater workshop for the staging of Jean Genet's Sorveglianza speciale to 30 years after Marco Gagliardo's experience in 1982 at the 25th Festiva dei Due Mondi.
The #SN theater workshop, which started with fifteen inmates, over the years has exceeded one hundred participants, of all ages and nationalities, from from various security circuits, aged between 20 and 70, able to play different roles (playwright, actor, dancer, assistant director, assistant set designer, props man, audio-visual officer, stage manager ...). After the first experience, the project continued with the #MA#IA#NO# trilogy composed from three plays written with the involvement of the inmates: _Pathetic Affections/Affective Activity, The Best of All Possible Worlds 1980 2025, Miracle to Maiano_La, included in the programming of the 56th, 57thand 58th Festival dei Due Mondi. Thereafter, from 2016 to 2022, the Spoleto Festival hosted a new production each year: 'to città 'e Pulecenella, Nessuno, VICTIMS, Nessuno Torna to Itaca si non se noverit, Storia Vera 'e capite comm'è, Sempre in quell'aura Sanza tempo tinta, Tempo Libero c and, in 2022, the show Je est un autre. In each project, the #SINENOMINE Company is joined by from professional artists, collaborates on a permanent basis with actors and students from the Teodelapio theater school, and makes use of the professional contributions of Euno Terni for movement and choreography, the Ad Cantus Vocale Choir for the musical and singing parts, Studio Flamenco Roma and their respective artistic directors. The granting of alternative measures granted by the Magistrate of Surveillance and the management to inmate-actors has enabled some inmates to perform with the Company extramoenia throughout the country (Rome, Turin, Genoa, Chieti, Calcata, Matera, Florence, Foligno, Terni). The Company is supported by the generosity of numerous artists (among them Sara Ragni, Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio, Lucia Napoli, Pina Segoni, Lorena Salis, Serena Perna, Francesco Corrias, EUNO dancers, singers of the ad Cantus Vocale Choir) and supported by the Casa di Reclusione, Festival dei Due Mondi, the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation, from other local entities.
Antonio Latella
Davide Enia
Isabelle Adjani
Alessandro Baricco