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SILVIO ORLANDO - LUCIA CALAMARO
Children Alice, Riccardo and Maria arrived the night before. Older brother Roberto also. A weekend in Silvio's country house at the beginning of the depopulated village where he lives from only from three years. Silvio has acquired, in his loneliness, a good number of foibles, the most serious of all: he no longer wants to walk. He does not want to stand up. He wants to stay and live sitting down as much as possible. And from alone. It is a matter, for the children who had not worried too much about it so far, of deciding what to do, how to take care of it, how to move him from this position that is a metaphor for his mental state: which is that of a man who lives next to existence and no longer within reality. Empathy, distance and reckoning emerge here and there. Silvio´s family members came to to visit him for the mass marking the tenth anniversary of his wife´s death.... There is from commemorating, from saying, from concerting speeches. What is certain is that, prey to his isolation, a certain confusion between desires and reality is installed in Silvio´s head, with no one to disprove him on a daily basis, life can be exactly as one decides it is. Until to a certain point.
This play, which has found in the figure of the father a performer for me at the same time unhoped-for and wonderful, Silvio Orlando, finds its roots in a plague, a curse, a specific pathology of our time that I, personally, have known even too much. Socio-psychology has given it a name: "SOCIAL SOLITUDE. " to highlighting the dangers of this situation were two studies presented at the 125th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA). Being isolated from society is a dark and insidious evil. For all of us, as human beings, need contact with others, a need that allows us to survive. Concern arises even more when one considers that this type of "extreme loneliness" is expanding and will continue to to grow in next years so much so that France has created "Loneliness Day" and England has established, even, a ministry of loneliness. According to experts we may be grappling, and not only in wealthier countries, with an epidemic of loneliness. Widespread now even among young people. Silvio Orlando is, in my opinion, a unique actor. Able to trigger by his absolute surrender to the stage, the empathies of every spectator, and with his exquisitely tragicomic strings, to arouse requestions, emotions and actions in his audience. And together we like to think that the spectators, thanks to a potential unhinging of the 'soul due we hope to this show, maybe the same evening on the way out, or maybe the next day, they will call again that father, that mother, that brother, distant relative or friend now isolated and will go to to see him, to get him out of the house. Or to just keep him company.
Lucia Calamaro
by Lucia Calamaro
with Silvio Orlando
and with **Riccardo Goretti, Roberto Nobile, Alice Redini, Maria Laura Rondanini **.
scenes **Roberto Crea **
costumes **Ornella **and Marina Campanale
lights **Umile Vainieri **
directed** Lucia Calamaro**
Goldfinch Production Ltd.
in co-production with TSU Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria
in collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
assistant director Diego Maiello
assistant set designer Michele Gigi
chief engineer **Luigi Flammia **.
chief electrician Valerio Peroni
sound engineer Gianrocco Bruno
seamstress **Lorella Santori **
stagecraft Backstage
lighting service Fonolight
live sound service
transportation **Emanuele Fragaria **
photo Claudia Pajewski
organizational and administrative consulting Teresa Rizzo
general organization Maria Laura Rondanini
show presented as part of the memorandum of understanding between Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.
Born in Rome, Lucia Calamaro is to playwright, director and actress. She moves to Montevideo and after to degree in Art and Aesthetics at the Sorbonne, she starts teaching at the Universidad Catolica de Montevideo and collaborating with Rialto Sant 'Ambrogio in Rome. Then she founds the Malebolge Association giving substance to her personal scenic writing with: Medea, tracks, by Euripides (Medea, footprints, by Euripides); Woyzec_k; Guerra (War); Cattivi maestri (Bad teachers); Tumor - uno spettacolo desolato (Tumor - to bleak vision) and Magick, autobiography of shame (Magick, autobiography of shame). L'origine del mondo (The origin of the world) wins three Ubu awards including Best New Italian play and the Enriquez Award for direction and dramaturgy. Editoria e Spettacolo publishes her Il ritorno della madre (The Return of the Mother), - edited by Renato Palazzi - which gathers: Tumore, Magick, and L'origine del mondo. La vita ferma (Life at to standstill) and Si nota all'imbrunire (It can be seen at dusk) are finalists in 2017 and 2019 Ubu awards. In 2019 she wins Hystrio award for dramaturgy. Currently she is working on the play Darwin inconsolabile-un pezzo per anime in pena (Brokenhearted Darwin- to piece for restless souls), produced by Sardegna Teatro. She has been teaching at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome since 2019.Her texts La vita ferma and L'o_rigine del mondo are published in France by Actes Sud and in Italy by Einaudi.
Born to Naples in 1957, he worked in theater in the following productions: from 1970 to 1980 in Kabarett by R. Carpentieri and in Anemic Cinéma by to. Neiwiller; from 1980 to 1985 in Black out by to. Neiwiller, La Stanza by Orlando-Taiuti, Due Uomini e un Armadio by Orlando-Taiuti, Ragazze sole con qualche esperienza by E. Moscato with Moscato, Orlando, Taiuti and Ruccello; from 1985 to1990 in Comedians by G. Salvatores, Eldorado by G. Salvatores; from 1990 to 2000 in Sottobanco by Starnone directed by D. Lucchetti, Due Farse by P. De Filippo directed by Silvio Orlando, Shakespeare's The Tempest directed by B. Corsetti; from 2000 to 2010 in Eduardo al Kursaal by E. De Filippo directed by Armando Pugliese, Questi Fantasmi by E. De Filippo, directed to. Pugliese, The God of Carnage by Reza directed by R. Andò, Hamlet by Shakespeare directed by to. Pugliese ; from 2010 to 2019 in If there are no more questions by P. Virzì, The Nephew of Rameau by Diderot directed by S. Orlando, The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare directed by V. Binasco, The School by D. Starnone directed by D. Lucchetti, Lacci by D.Starnone directed by to. Pugliese, Si nota all 'imbrunire text and direction by Lucia Calamaro; from 2020 to 2022 in Si nota all'imbrunire text and direction by Lucia Calamaro, La vita davanti to itself from the novel by Romain Gary reduction and direction Silvio Orlando.In cinema he works from 1985 to 1990 in Palombella Rossa by N. Moretti, La settimana dellaSfinge by D. Luchetti; from 1990 to 2000 in Il portaborse by D. Luchetti, Un'altra vita by C. Mazzacurati, Sud by G. Salvatores, La Scuola by D. Luchetti, Ferie d'agosto by P. Virzì, La mia generazione by W. Labate, I Magi randagi by S. Citti, Nirvana by G. Salvatores, Aprile by N. Moretti, Auguri Professore by Riccardo Milani, from 2000 to 2010 in Fuori dal Mondo by G Piccioni, Preferisco il rumore del mare by M. Calopresti, La stanza del figlio by N Moretti, Il Papà di Giovanna by P. Avati, Il Caimano by N. Moretti, Caos Calmo by Antonello Grimaldi, Ex by Fausto Brizzi_, Il grande Sogno_ by M. Placido; from 2010 to 2018 in Parents and Children by Giovanni Veronesi, La Passione by C. Mazzacurati, Il delitto di via Poma by Roberto Faenza, Un Castello in Italia by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, La variabile umana by B. Oliviero, La sedia della Felicità by C. Mazzacurati, Un paese quasi perfetto by Massimo Gaudioso; from 2019 to 2022 in Lacci by Daniele Luchetti; Il bambino nascosto by Roberto Andò, Aria-ferma by Leonardo Di Costanzo in which she co-starred with Toni Servillo, Siccità by Paolo Virzì, Il Sol dell'Avvenire by Nanni Moretti.For television he works to Zanzibar, Emilio, The Neighbors, Felipe Has Blue Eyes, Michael at War, Parents and Children, in the TV series The Young Pope with Jude Law, Diane Keaton, John Malkovich and directed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky and HBO.In his long career he has won numerous awards including the Telegatto, several Nastri d'argento and Globo d'oro, David di Donatello , Ciak d'oro, the Gian Maria Volonté Award, the Coppa Volpi, the Le maschere del Teatro Italiano Award and the Anct / Poesio Award for Lifetime Achievement.