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They act incorrectly those who present sex to those who learn it as a natural, clean, innocent and obvious thing. Instead, those who show it to them as something unnatural, and therefore dirty, dangerous and incomprehensible, are right.
Bertolt Brecht, Fatzer
Good, old-fashioned morality. It is an old word, which is no longer used. With the addition of a single letter it becomes deadly (and how many deaths it has done, and how many deaths it continues to to do). It was all people talked about in the late nineteenth century, and it is in the name of morality that the boys in Spring Awakening are forbidden knowledge of the world that will lead them to death. It is hardly mentioned now; perhaps it has taken other names. But every time violence is justified, every time comments are made about the clothes of a raped and murdered girl, every time a victim is inflicted, morality is alive and fighting against us.
Immoralism, on the other hand, has aged much worse. That counter-moralism that often surfaces in Spring Awakening today makes us smile. For several times it has been taken as the "message" ofopera, making the text a ...
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SPRING AWAKENING
By Franz Wedekind
adaptation and direction Giovanni Ortoleva
artistic supervision by Antonio Latella
with Eva Cela, Pietro Giannini, Fabiola Leone, Irene Mantova, Riccardo Rampazzo, Daniele Valdemarin
dramaturg Federico Bellini
scenes Giuseppe Stellato
costumes Graziella Pepe
lights Pasquale Mari
music Pietro Guarracino
sound design Franco Visioli
Marco Angelilli movements
assistant director Fabio Carta
"Ugh, what a beard! Oof, what a bore!"
With this phrase the episodes of Casa Vianello, the TV sit-com starring Sandra Mondaini and Raimondo Vianello, ended; after a day peppered from with rocambolic episodes, misunderstandings, and comical quarrels, the couple wished each other good night with this phrase uttered by Mondaini, which became almost a slogan capable of entering the jargon of Italians. A phrase we now naturally associate to with something boring, repetitive; kids often use it when called upon by adults to to do something they would not like to do, such as studying. For adults, perhaps, ...
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John Ortoleva was born to Florence in 1991.
He holds a degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Trento and a diploma in Theatre Direction from the Paolo Grassi School in Milan.
In 2016 he received the University of Rome - Tor Vergata prize for "Four Landscapes with Figures," a text about the Nazi regime's attempt to conceal the existence of the Polish death camps. The text was published from Progetto Cultura.
In 2018 he received a special mention from the Venice Biennale within the Directors Under 30 competition, and was invited twice to to present his work there. In 2019 he debuts there "Saul" from André Gide (co-written to Riccardo Favaro) and in 2020 R. W. Fassbinder's "The Waste, the City and Death," produced from Fondazione Teatro della Tosse in Genoa.
to November 2021 , also produced from Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse , debuts to Genoa with "The Tragic Story of Dr. Faust," loosely based from Christopher Marlowe, with which he closes a trilogy of works on figures who rebelled to God.
In the 2022-23 season, he began a research journey into the myths of romantic love, which led him to to produce "Lancelot and Guinevere" at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato and William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night (or whatever)" at the LAC in Lugano. Also in summer 2023, he is called to to direct the flagship production of the 70th edition of the San Miniato Popular Drama Festival, "Industrial Drama," with dramaturgy by Riccardo Favaro.
In 2021 his short film "Self-Portrait with Weapon," with which he made his film debut, was selected by the Turin Film Festival and received the Ermanno Olmi Award.
The New York Times wrote of his work that it "shows significant promise and imagination."
Antonio Latella
Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico
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