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MEMORIE DI ADRIANA
In its national premiere at the Spoleto 60 Festival, Memoirs of Adriana is a play--on the verge of beginning.... In fact, in front of the closed door of Adriana Asti's dressing room, another, seemingly unplanned performance goes on instead.
A figure appears in the dark: "She will not come. I know her. Much better than she knows herself..." and it will be she, this figure, to telling about the Adriana who does not want to enter the scene, who flees while staying where she is, who by showing herself hides, who by forgetting remembers, who sings to be alone.
An actress on stage must become a character to succeed to talk about herself: it is a deception, perhaps a necessity.
One more provocation, one more escape.
Fantasies, thoughts, stories come to life, mingling with theater.
to recounting are not only the episodes of a long career, the anxieties of the stage, encounters with the greatest theater and film directors, disguises and nudity, levity and madness.
to telling is the very mechanism of this show, the choice to appear without revealing oneself, to look from out almost with detachment, pouring irony and anger, irritation and tenderness onto that other self.
Inside this mechanism in which no one plays just his part, there is a theater director who is ashamed of his lion's tail, there is a technician who wishes he did not feel like a chicken who is actually a chicken, there is an admirer who collects memories.
And above all there is her, and there is the other: one entangled in the stage boards, the other in the dressing room, to looking in the mirror and searching for a new makeup. Always to feeling out of place, only to discover that perhaps the only place is the theater, because it is totally illusory.
a performance by Andrée Ruth Shammah
theatrical adaptation and direction
taken from the book_ Remembering and Forgetting, a conversation between Adriana Asti and René De Ceccatty_
with** Adriana Asti **
and with Andrea Soffiantini and Andrea Narsi
**Alessandro Nidi **at the piano performing his music
dramaturgy Federica Di Rosa
scenes** Gian Maurizio Fercioni **
lights** Domenico Ferrari**
assistant director** Diletta Ferruzzi**
performance assistant** Enzo Giraldo**
director of staging Alberto Accalai
stage director Paolo Roda
seamstress Francesca Persichini
sound engineer Matteo Simonetta
video** Chiara Toschi**
to the music of** Fiorenzo Carpi**
costumes made by the Franco Parenti Theater's tailoring department directed from** Simona Dondoni**
Franco Parenti Theater production
in collaboration with Spoleto 60 Festival
Throughout her theatrical career she has been directed by, among others, from Strehler, Visconti, Ronconi, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Alfredo Arias interpreting with recognized mastery great characters of classical and modern theater. She has inspired authors such as Ginzburg, Siciliano, Patroni Griffi, Cesare Musatti and Franca Valeri, who have created for her unforgettable protagonists for our stages. from many years she also acts in French and has managed to to introduce some of her heroines, with great success, on the stages of Paris. She has written two plays, Dear Professor and Alcohol, performed for more than 200 performances, and two novels published in France, Rue Ferou and Se souvenir et oublier. The latter also published in Italy from Edizioni Portaparole under the title Ricordare e dimenticare. She has participated to more than 60 films directed by, among others, from Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Bolognini, Brass, Giordana, Techiné and Bunuel._ Stramilano_, nostalgia in music for her city, and_ Ja das Meer ist blau_, poems and songs by Brecht and Weill, shows from she devised, see her in her new role as a singer. For her performances she has received the Ennio Flaiano Award, three Maschere d'oro, four Nastri d'argento, the David di Donatello, the Grolla d'oro, the De Sica Award and the Ciak d'oro. He has been a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic since 2004. In 2009 Robert Wilson directed her in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. In 2011 she was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et de Lettres. In 2013 she starred in_ The Human Voice/The Beautiful Indifferent_ by Jean Cocteau directed from Benoit Jacquot. In 2014 she was Alice in _Danza macabra_ by August Strindberg directed by Luca Ronconi, a show with which she toured nationally and internationally until 2016. In 2017 she narrated herself in Memorie di Adriana, a stage adaptation from the book Ricordare e dimenticare, a conversation between Adriana Asti and René De Ceccatty, directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah. Also in 2017, he wrote Un futuro infinito. A short autobiography published from Mondadori. In 2018 she plays the role of _Donna Fabia _in the film Installation by Marco Tullio Giordana, from the poem by Carlo Porta.
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.