Calderón | Play
10 May 2023
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Calderón is directed by Fabio Condemi, one of the most interesting young Italian directors, already a winner of a Ubu Prize. Condemi has worked on Pasolini in 2019 too, conceiving and directing an amazing monologue inspired by Pasolini’s film scripts.
Calderón is a tragedy in verse inspired by the masterpiece of the great seventeenth-century author Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream. But the atmosphere, the plot, the context are radically different: we are in Francoist Spain of the 60s, between evolutionary uprisings and logic of power that seem to leave no other space for freedom than in dreams or in the painting of Diego Velázquez.
Pasolini’s is in fact a ruthless and lucid x-ray of power, of its way of renewing itself and remaining very ancient, of its changes and its strategies. A labyrinthine text in which multiple levels and traces coexist in a continuous and very rich interlocking game. Traces that make Calderón a very dense text in which viewers are called to question deeply about our being in history. A text that through dreams desperately questions reality.
Audio: IT
Subtitles: FR, ES, HR, PL, PT, SE, EN, DE
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
direction set and costume conception Fabio Condemi
with (in alphabetic order) Valentina Banci, Matilde Bernardi, Marco Cavalcoli, Michele Di Mauro, Carolina Ellero, Nico Guerzoni, Omar Madé, Caterina Meschini, Elena Rivoltini, Giulia Salvarani, Emanuele Valenti
set, image dramaturgy Fabio Cherstich
costumes Gianluca Sbicca
light design Marco Giusti
sound design Alberto Tranchida
assistant director Angelica Azzellini
set realized in ERT scenography studio
head of scenography studio and carpenter Gioacchino Gramolini
carpenters Tiziano Barone, Davide Lago, Sergio Puzzo, Veronica Sbrancia, Leandro Spadola
set decorators Ludovica Sitti with Sarah Menichini, Benedetta Monetti, Bianca Passanti, Martina Perrone
iron set elements realized by Falegnameria Scheggia
assistant to the set project Greta Maria Cosenza
costumes realized in the Wardrobe studio of Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro D’Europa
technical director Massimo Gianaroli
stage manager Lorenzo Martinelli
stage hands Rebecca Quintavalle e Davide Lago
prop woman Benedetta Monetti
head electrician Giuseppe Tomasi
sound technician Alberto Tranchida
wardrobe Elena Dal Pozzo
shootings Alessandro Abate, Luca Gianfrancesco, Enrico Montagna, Lucio Fiorentino
video editing and direction Lucio Fiorentino
production Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
in collaboration with Associazione Santacristina Centro Teatrale within the project “Come devi immaginarmi” (How you should imagine me) dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini
The performance is realized within the international project “Prospero Extended Theatre”, thanks to the support of the programme “Creative Europe” of the EU
thanks to Acondroplasia Insieme per crescere Onlus
reproduction of the picture Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez from the Photography Archive of the National Museum of Prado (Madrid)
