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With the review L'utopia possibile continues Luca Ronconi's long and successful collaboration with the Spoleto Festival dei 2 Mondi, which began in 1969 with the staging ofOrlando furioso, a memorable show that changed the history of Italian theater. The collaboration has continued over the years with the Santacristina Theater Center and has seen the birth of works such as Un altro gabbiano, La Modestia, In cerca d'autore and Pornografia.
After Danza macabra, the last production born to Spoleto in 2014, the Santacristina Theater Center and the Spoleto Festival present as part of the 59th edition the review L'utopia possibile: the great "world theater" of Luca Ronconi. Three days of screenings and meetings to take an unprecedented theatrical and human journey into the Maestro's artistic universe.
The palimpsest of the review, curated from Roberta Carlotto and Claudio Longhi, traces, through a work of selection and montage of the materials to available, an articulated path in Ronconi's production, following three basic themes (stage space, dramaturgy and actors).
27 at total, featuring performances presented in their entirety or by selections of scenes, specials with interviews, backstage and rehearsals made on the occasion of debuts, documentaries, series of stage photographs for performances of which no video footage exists, rare fragments of television scripts with Ronconi as an actor, long interviews to Ronconi, replayed in their entirety or to excerpts, including those made from Ariella Beddini, Franco Marcoaldi and Jacopo Quadri. It is precisely Ronconi's words and statements, scattered throughout the days and the projected materials, to tell us about his views on theater and to guide us through his "world theater."
FromOrlando furioso to Lemahn Trilogy, Ronconi's last show produced by the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, from the shows of the Prato Workshop to those born at the Spoleto Festival, from the _Borkman _televisual, to theOrestea, to Infinities, to The Last Days of Humanity, to name but a few of the many titles in this special anthology that covers fifty years of activity, traces an almost encyclopedic repertoire from the Baroque to the contemporary, and features alternating great protagonists, to to whom the third day of the review is entirely dedicated.
The three chosen themes are also the common thread of the daily meetings led from Claudio Longhi, who will converse with Giorgio Ferrara aroundOrlando Furioso, with Stefano Massini and Emanuele Trevi on dramaturgy and the relationship with texts, and with Riccardo Bini, Massimo De Francovich, Lucrezia Guidone, Manuela Mandracchia and Massimo Popolizio on working with actors.
In addition, two recently published volumes will be presented on July 7: Luca Ronconi. Un grande maestro negli anni dei guru by Italo Moscati (Ediesse 2016), and Ronconi secondo Quadri, a collection of over 90 reviews by Franco Quadri, to edited by Leonardo Mello (Ubulibri 2016). Both publications start fromOrlando Furioso in their critical reflection and, at the same time, are an opportunity to reread the exclusive lifelong relationship between Ronconi and Franco Quadri.
This review will also be an opportunity to present the agreement between the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi and Roberta Carlotto for the digitization of the Luca Ronconi Archive, already declared "of particularly important historical interest" by the Archival Superintendence of Umbria and Marche, which is cataloging and documenting the materials while waiting to identify their final destination.
The agreement stems from the desire to contribute to the preservation and dissemination of the work and thought of Luca Ronconi, one of the most important figures in contemporary culture and theater.
to curated by Roberta Carlotto and Claudio Longhi with Lisa Capaccioli
program
_Thursday, July 7 _
THE STAGE SPACE
at 15.00-18.00
Orlando Furioso by Ariosto
Reduction by Edoardo Sanguineti (Parts I, II, III)
Television version, 1975, 180'
at 18.00-19.00
Claudio Longhi's conversation with Giorgio Ferrara aboutOrlando Furioso
Presentation of the volumes Ronconi according to Quadri, to edited by Leonardo Mello (Ubulibri, 2016) and Luca Ronconi. A great master in the guru years by Italo Moscati (Ediesse, 2016). The authors will speak.
at 19.00-24.00
Orlando Furioso by Ariosto
Reduction by Edoardo Sanguineti (IV, V part)
Television version, 1975, 130'
_Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi _
Series of clips in which Ronconi talks about his theater, to edited by Ariella Beddini, 2009
clip 1 The place of the theater - clip 2 The set design as a puzzle
**Orestea** by **Eschilo**
Fragments of the play, 1972, 27'
Prometheus Chained by Aeschylus, The Bacchae by Euripides, The Frogs by Aristophanes
(Greek Theater of Syracuse)
Fragments from the special Progetto Greco, directed by Ariella Beddini, 2002, 14'
_Paths into infinity _
Special on the play Infinities by John Barrow, directed by Ariella Beddini, 2002, 53'
Valkyrie by R. Wagner, **_Il viaggio to Reims _**by G. Rossini, **_Lodoiska _**by L. Cherubini
Excerpts from the documentary Ronconi atopera about the shows staged at La Scala, directed by Felice Cappa, 2016, 25'
_Portrait of the director from great _
Interview conducted on the occasion of Luca Ronconi's 80th birthday from Franco Marcoaldi, 2013, 48'
_Friday, July 8 _
DRAMATURGY
at 15.00-18.00
Quer pasticciaccio brutto of via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda (Parts I and II)
Television version directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci, 1996, 125'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 3 Quer pasticciaccio brutto
_The scandal of the word _
Special on the show _Lehman Trilogy _by Stefano Massini, directed by Felice Cappa, 2015, 58'
at 18.00-19.00
Conversation by Claudio Longhi with Stefano Massini and Emanuele Trevi on Luca Ronconi's dramaturgy and relationship with texts.
at 19.00-24.00
Bettina: The Good Wife by Carlo Goldoni (Part I)
Television version, 1976, 30'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 4 The text is its story - 5 The interpretation of the text - 6 The analysis of the text - 7 Lolita
_Evidence of a love _
Special on the play _Lolita _screenplay by Nabokov, directed by Ariella Beddini, 2002, 58'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 8 Vision and knowledge - clip 9 The language
_MM Mariangela and Maisie _
Special on the play What Maisie Knew by Henri James, directed by Ariella Beddini, 2002, 51'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 10 Strange interlude
**_Strange Interlude _**by Eugene O'Neill
Fragments of the play, 1990, 23'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 11 Shows on the run
**TheLast Days of Humanity **by Karl Krauss
Fragments of the television version, 1991, 60'
Interview to Luca Ronconi by Jacopo Quadri
Santacristina Theater Center, 2013, 18'
_Working notes _
Interview by Ariella Beddini to Luca Ronconi, 2013, 49'
Saturday, July 9
THE ACTORS.
at 15.00-18.00
**_Ricard III _**by William Shakespeare
Stage photos, 1968
The Bacchae by Euripides
Stage photos, 1978
Luca Ronconi's Theatrical Workshop
Film about the making of the play _Caldéron _in Prato, directed by Miklós Jancsó, 1977, 74'
The Tower (Theatre Laboratory of Prato)
Fragments of the television version, 1979, 28'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 12 Joints
**_John Gabriel Borkman _**by Henrik Ibsen
Fragments, TV, 1982, 42'
**_Ignorabimus _**by Arno Holz
Stage photos, 1986
Dialogues of the Carmelites by Georges Bernanos
Fragments of the play, 1988, 14'
at 18.00-19.00
Conversation by Claudio Longhi with actors Riccardo Bini, Massimo De Francovich, Lucrezia Guidone, Manuela Mandracchia, Massimo Popolizio
at 19.00-24.00
_Luca Ronconi actor
Stage photos, 1953-1963
**_How he lied to her husband _**by **George Bernard Shaw **.
Farmmenti, TV, RAI, directed by Alessandro Brissoni RAI, 1954, 21'
Life with the Father by **Howard Lindsay **and Russel Crouse
Fragments, TV, RAI, directed by** Mario Ferrero**, 1956, 4'
**_Resurrection _**by Lev Tolstoy
Fragments, TV, RAI, directed by Franco Enriquez RAI, 1965, 18'
Charlov and the daughters by **Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev **
Fragments, TV, RAI, directed by Giandomenico Giagni, 1966, 4' (ADDED)
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 13 The actor's work on himself
_Reflections of Love _
Special on the play Amor nello specchio by G.B. Andreini, directed by Ariella Beddini, 2002, 50'
_Project Tomorrow _
Fragments of the special made from Ariella Beddini with scenes from _Acts of War _by E. Bond, The Silence of the Communists by Foa, Mafai, Reichlin, Biblioetica by Corbellini, Donghi, Massarenti, _The Devil's Mirror _by G. Ruffolo, Troilus and Cressida by W. Shakespeare, 2005, 49'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 14 What is theater to you - 15 _Why theater continues to to live _- 16 Theater is still a form of the sacred
**_Another Seagull _**from Henrik Ibsen
Fragments of the play, 2009, 8'
Luca Ronconi talks about Luca Ronconi
clip 17 Another Seagull
Modesty by Rafel Spregelburd
Fragments of the play, 2011, 13'
Pornography by Witold Gombrowicz
Fragments of the play, 2013, 12'
Dance Macabre by August Strindberg
Fragments of the play, 2014, 12'
In search of an author. Study of the 6 characters by Luigi Pirandello
Television version directed by Felice Cappa, 2014, 98'
