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Acarnesi Stop The War!, riscrittura da Aristofane

ALBE IN THE U.S.A., New York, New Jersey and Chicago
January-February 2014

La MaMa, a historic avant-garde theatre in Manhattan, founded by Ellen Stewart and today directed by Mia Yoo, presents the Teatro delle Albe’s show Noise in the Waters (Rumore di acque) for three weeks at the First Floor Theatre. The company’s presence in the U.S.A. will be enriched by other collaborations in New York, New Jersey and Chicago.





NEW YORK


NOISE IN THE WATERS AT LA MAMA
La MaMa - First Floor Theatre 
30 January-16 February 
Thursday-Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Sunday at 2.30. p.m.
lamama.org

 


NOISE IN THE WATERS AT LA MAMA
Marco Martinelli’s Noise in the Waters arrives in New York after an intense national and international tour with the acknowledgement of patronage by Amnesty International and insertion into the project “Face à Face” (which puts on the most interesting contemporary Italian texts translated into French). The English translation by Thomas Simpson, who teaches Italian literature at the Northwestern University of Chicago, was published in 2011 in the online university magazine "California Italian Studies” edited by Albert Ascoli. In 2014 it will be published in book form by Bordighera Press of New York.

La MaMa - First Floor Theatre 
30 January-16 February
Thursday-Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Sunday at 2.30. p.m.
lamama.org

 

HERESY OF HAPPINESS IN NEW YORK
final performance
La Scuola d'Italia "G. Marconi" (406 E 67th St.)
11 February at 6 p.m.
lascuoladitalia.org

 

HERESY OF HAPPINESS IN NEW YORK
Heresy of Happiness in New York (Eresia della felicità a New York), directed by Marco Martinelli will involve in a workshop teenagers from the Manhattan and Harlem – students from the La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi and from Corpus Christi School, in collaboration with IACE – and will conclude with a final event open to the public.
Heresy of Happiness in New York is centred on the non-scuola (non-school), a theatre-educational experience with teenagers. In 2011, as part of the Santarcangelo 41 International Theatre Festival (artistic director Ermanna Montanari), a new passage of this overwhelming wave of the non-scuola was created: Heresy of Happiness, a “choral” workshop with 200 adolescents from all over the world again under Martinelli’s direction.

final performance
La Scuola d'Italia "G. Marconi" (406 E 67th St.)
11 February at 6 p.m.
lascuoladitalia.org

 

OPEN TALKS

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò/New York University 
28 January at 6 p.m.
casaitaliananyu.org

 


Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò/New York University
Presentation of Marco Martinelli’s book Rumore di acque, published by Bordighera Press.

28 January at 6 p.m.
casaitaliananyu.org

 


Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York 
5 February at 6 p.m.
iicnewyork.esteri.it

 


Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York
1983-2013 the poetics of the Albe throughout a thirty year journey.

5 February at 6 p.m.
iicnewyork.esteri.it



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NEW JERSEY


WORKSHOPS AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY

 


WORKSHOPS AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
The three part project at Montclair State University – two workshops and the show Noise in the Waters – has been devised by university Prof. Fiore with support from the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University.
In collaboration with the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming, Global Education Center, Institute for the Humanities and Department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University.

Workshop by Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso
Leshowitz Recital Hall 
3 February, 11.30 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Workshop by  Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari 
Life Hall Dance Studio 
4 February, 10.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m

montclair.edu/inserra/events

 

NOISE IN THE WATERS AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
Leshowitz Recital Hall-John J. Cali School of Music 
18 February at 7 p.m.
montclair.edu/inserra/events

 

NOISE IN THE WATERS AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
Show open to the campus and the Montclair community.
Post-show round table with:  Marco Martinelli, Alessandro Renda, Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso, Marisa Trubiano (Italian Program, MSU)

Leshowitz Recital Hall-John J. Cali School of Music 
18 February at 7 p.m.
montclair.edu/inserra/events




CHICAGO


NOISE IN THE WATERS AT LINKS HALL
Links Hall - STUDIO A
21-22 February at 7 p.m.
linkshall.org

 


NOISE IN THE WATERS AT LINKS HALL
The project involves Thomas Simpson and was made possible by the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Chicago and the Mellon bursary of the History Department, Northwestern University of Chicago.

Links Hall - STUDIO A 
21-22 February at 7 p.m.
linkshall.org




The Teatro delle Albe U.S. tour is supported by La MaMa, La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, NY, the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University NJ, NYU (Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and Center for European and Mediterranean Studies), the Italian Cultural Institutes of New York and Chicago and Northwestern University of Chicago, IL.

 


Albe: principio speranza, Racconto murenico del Teatro delle Albe 1983-2020

Aristofane a Scampia, Come far amare i classici agli adolescenti con la non-scuola

di Marco Martinelli, Ponte alle Grazie, Milano, 2016.

 

RASSEGNA STAMPA

 

 

 

 

 

    Aristophane dans les banlieus di Marco Martinelli, Actes Sud, 2020

 

 

Aristophane dans les banlieues, Pratiques de la non-école de Marco Martinelli, Raphaël Baptiste, L'alchimie du verbe, 11 December 2020
Le feu théàtrale des ados, Gilles Costaz, Politis, January 2021
Tous des ânes, Estelle Spoto, LE VIF, 7 January 2021
Martinelli: "La nostra non-scuola è sbarcata anche in Francia", Elisa Bianchini, Corriere di Romagna, 14 February 2021
Marco Martinelli pubblica a Parigi la versione francese di Aristofane a Scampia edita dalla prestigiosa Actes Sud, ravennanotizie.it, 15 February 2021
Aristofane a Scampia. E presto anche in Francia, Anna De Lutiis, Risveglio 2000, 26 February 2021
"Sfruttiamo anche questo momento di chiusura. E prepariamo la festa che seguirà", Iacopo Gardelli, R&D Cult, 5 marzo 2021

 


Audiolibro Divina Commedia, Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso

THE DIVINE COMEDY AUDIOBOOK IN 33 LANGUAGES

A project by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in partnership with the Municipality of Ravenna and in collaboration with Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

 

 

Traverser La Divine Comédie avec Dante: un audiolivre en 33 langues, Federica Malinverno, ActuaLitté, 23 gennaio 2021

Pour les 700 ans de la mort de Dante, «La Divine Comédie» s’écoute en 33 langue, Léa Perez, La Croix, 26 gennaio 2021

Dalla Selva oscura fino a Paradiso: la voce messaggera di Dante, Elisa Bianchini, Corriere di Romagna, 25 marzo 2021


Dante nei 5 continenti U.S.A.

DON CHISCIOTTE AD ARDERE, opera in fieri 2023

Nel nome di Dante, Diventare grandi con la Divina Commedia

Paradiso, Chiamata Pubblica per la "Divina Commedia" di Dante Alighieri

Pasolinacci e Pasolini, quattro movimenti di ascolto

Ulisse XXVI



un film di
 Marco Martinelli


voce e figura
 Ermanna Montanari
ideazione Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari
ombre di Dante e Virgilio Fabio Ceroni, Luca Pagliano
compagni di Ulisse Alessandro Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Fagio, Luca Pagliano
fotografia Alessandro Tedde 
montaggio Marco Martinelli, Francesco Tedde
allestimento tecnico Fagio, Alessandro Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Luca Pagliano
presa diretta e sonorizzazione Marco Olivieri
assistente di produzione Martina Tagliani
organizzazione generale Veronica Gennari, Silvia Pagliano
musiche 
Giacinto Scelsi, Mantram, per gentile concessione della Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, eseguito al contrabbasso da Daniele Roccato; 
Marco Olivieri – U26


produzione
 Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe con il contributo di ADI – Associazione degli Italianisti, in collaborazione con Antropotopia 
con il supporto di Comune di Ravenna, Viva Dante Ravenna 2020-2021, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Ministero della Cultura


Grazie
Stefania Gambirasio e Massimiliano Casavecchia per averci fatto scoprire la cripta di Santa Maria in Porto
Padre Lukasz Lukanowski, Fra Michele e tutti i padri della Parrocchia di Santa Maria in Porto per la gentile ospitalità
Franco Tramonti per il suo volto di “antico marinaio”, e Marcella


I versi del XXVI canto dell’Inferno sono tratti da Dante Alighieri, Commedia, a cura di Giorgio Inglese, Carocci editore


Mondi paralleli

by Marco Martinelli

on stage: Marino Cavallo, Luigi Dadina, Ermanna Montanari, Marcella Nonni. set design: Cesare Reggiani. Music by: Roberto Barbanti. Masks: Gianni Plazzi. stagecraft, light and sound: Roberto Ravaioli. directed by: Marco Martinelli. production: Albe di Verhaeren-Cantiere Philip K. Dick
The text of Mondi paralleli is included in the book Rumore di acque, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1986
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, novembre 24 1983

Effetti Rushmore

by Marco Martinelli 
on stage: Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli. scenery and costumes: Gianni Plazzi. stagecraft: Cesare Giorgi. light and sound design: Valerio Ravaioli voices ’effetti rushmore’: Ermanna Montanari, Rossella Floro Flores, Luigi Tartaull. directed by: Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Marcella Nonni. production: Albe di Verhaeren-Cantiere Philip K. Dick

The text Effetti Rushmore is included in the book Rumore di acque, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1986

Opening: Suzzara, Sala Polivalente, marzo 30 1984

Rumore di acque
by Marco Martinelli 
on stage: Luigi Dadina, Ermanna Montanari, Marcella Nonni, Renato Valmori. set design and costumes: Gianni Plazzi. musical consultancy: Gianfranco Andraghetti, Roberto Barbanti, Fausto Piazza. stagecraft: Giancarlo Cottignoli in collaboration with: Cesare Giorgi. light designer: Valerio Ravaioli. sound designer: Gianfranco Andraghetti. directed by: Marco Martinelli. production: Albe di Verhaeren-Cantiere Philip K. Dick
The text Rumore di acque is included in the book Rumore di acque, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1986
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, maggio 2 1985

Confine

by Marco Belpoliti
dedicato a Nanni Valentini . on stage: Ermanna Montanari   devised by: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . visual inventions and costumes: Cosetta Gardini . costumes made by: Maria Grazia Dondarini . light design: Lino Gerosa . sound design: Marco Martinelli   collaborations offered by: Sarah Quaito, Luisa Pretolani, Riccardo Poletti. directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: Albe di Verhaeren, Comune di Bagnacavallo

Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, febbraio 5 1986

I brandelli della Cina che abbiamo in testa
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Giuseppe Tolo. Witness at proscenius: Marika Giorgi. in the pit: Irreducible, celebr-action of Roberto Barbanti. music by: Roberto Barbanti. scenery and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari directed by: Marco Martinelli. production
: Albe di Verhaeren, Comune di Bagnacavallo
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, aprile 29 1987

Vitae Aqua, celebrazione per sette attanti più uno
by Roberto Barbanti
on stage: Roberto Barbanti, Letizia Bolognesi, Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli, Maria Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Marcella Nonni, Giuseppe Tolo . music by: Roberto Barbanti production: Albe di Verhaeren
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Piazza Nuova, maggio 22 1987

Imballaggio 1987, azione di teatro in strada
by Marco Martinelli
dedicated to Tadeusz Kantor, Aldo Sacchetti and Ruh. on stage: Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Marcella Nonni, Cristina Ventrucci. music by: Roberto Barbanti. directed by: Marco Martinelli production: Albe di Verhaeren
Opening: Bologna, Piazza Maggiore, giugno 15 1987

Radio Ravenna Africana, opera di drammaturgia radiofonica
music by: Roberto Barbanti
editorial staff: Abibou N’Diaye, Iba Babou, Khadim Thiam
radio announcer: Marika Giorgi
written and directed by: Marco Martinelli
production: Teatro delle Albe, Project Teatri d’ascolto by Carlo Infante-Rai Radiouno
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, febbraio 25 1988

Ruh. Romagna più Africa uguale, commedia nera
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Iba Babou, Luigi Dadina, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Abibou N’Diaye, Khadim Thiam, Giuseppe Tolo . scenes and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari. directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe, Comune di Bagnacavallo
The text Ruh. Romagna più Africa uguale is included in the book Ravenna africana, il teatro politttttttico delle Albe, di Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1988 and in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, febbraio 25 1988

Siamo asini o pedanti?, farsa filosofica
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Iba babou, Luigi Dadina, Ermanna Montanari, Abibou N’Diaye, Khadim Thiam, Giacomo Verde. scenes and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, with the collaboration of Cosetta Gardini and Giuseppe Tolo. original music for reed-pipe composed by Giacomo Verde, drums of Senegal tradition. stagecraft: Luigi Dadina, Cesare Giorgi, Massimo Monti. directed by: Marco Martinelli. production: Teatro delle Albe, Comune di Bagnacavallo
The text Siamo asini o pedanti? is included in the book Siamo asini o pedanti?, farsa filosofica, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1989 and in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, febbraio 25 1989

Bonifica, polittico in sette quadri
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina. set design and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari . light, sound design and direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe, Santarcangelo dei Teatri d’Europa, Comune di Bagnacavallo
The text Bonifica is included in the book Bonifica, polittico in sette quadri, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1991 and in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Bagnacavallo, Teatro Goldoni, dicembre 21 1989

Lunga vita all'albero, maggio epico
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Iba Babou, Luigi Dadina, Samantha Alimah Mamudu, Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Mor Awa Niang, Massamba Niang, El Hadji Niang, Giuseppe Tolo, Giacomo Verde. Set design and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari. Pali degli antenati: Mauro Squarzoni. Lights: Giancarlo Cottignoli. Technical director: Luigi Dadina. Directed by: Marco Martinelli.
Production: Teatro delle Albe, Santarcangelo dei Teatri d’Europa, Comune di Ravenna.
Opening: Torriana, Anfiteatro, luglio 13 1990

Le due calebasse, fiaba senegalese da Birago Diop
by Mandiaye N'Diaye
on stage: Mandiaye N’Diaye . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe
Opening: Vicenza, Teatro Astra, dicembre 13 1990

Rosvita
by Ermanna Montanari
on stage: Ermanna Montanari . flute: Vanni Montanari . painting by Konrad Witz realized by Cosetta Gardini . ethnic: Luigi Dadina . set design and costumes: Ermanna Montanari . voices by Agape, Irene, Chionia: Elisa Morini, Sara Garosi, Marika Giorgi . organization: Marcella Nonni, Cristina Ventrucci . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe, Santarcangelo dei Teatri d’Europa
The text Rosvita is included in the book Rosvita, by Ermanna Montanari, Essegi, Ravenna, 1992
Opening: Santarcangelo, Palazzo Cenci, luglio 4 1991

Nessuno può coprire l'ombra
by Marco Martinelli and Saidou Moussa Ba
on stage: Mandiaye N’Diaye, Mor Awa Niang, El Hadji Niang . set and design: Ermanna Montanari . lights: Giancarlo Cottignoli . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe Ravenna Teatro, Festival CTE, Nuova Scena-Teatro Testoni Interaction
Opening: Bologna, I.T.C. San Lazzaro, novembre 12 1991

I Refrattari, drammetto edificante
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina, Gianfranco Tondini, Pietro Fenati, Mandiaye N’Diaye . set designes and costumes: Ermanna Montanari and Cosetta Gardini . light conultancy: Michele Sambin . music consultancy: Vanni Montanari . dramaturgical collaboration: Nevio Spadoni . light: Giancarlo Cottignoli . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
The text I Refrattari is included in the book I Refrattari, drammetto edificante, by Marco Martinelli, edition Sestante, Ripatransone (Ap), 1992 and in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Edition, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, febbraio 25 1992

I ventidue infortuni di Mor Arlecchino, tre atti impuri
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Pierangela Allegro, Luigi Dadina, Laurent Dupont, Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Mor Awa Niang . music composed by: El Hadji Niang, Michele Sambin . light and sound: Giancarlo Cottignoli, Enrico Isola . set design, costumes and direction: Michele Sambin . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Tam teatromusica
The text I ventidue infortuni di Mor Arlecchino is included in the book I ventidue infortuni di Mor Arlecchino, tre atti impuri, by Marco Martinelli, Essegi, Ravenna, 1993 and in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, gennaio 28 1993

Griot Fulêr
by Luigi Dadina and Mandiaye N'Diaye on stage: Luigi Dadina, Danilo Maggio, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Mor Awa Niang, El Hadji Niang, Mirela Liço . music composed by: Danilo Maggio, El Hadji Niang . scenes and costumes: Enrico Isola, Luigi Dadina. light and sound: Enrico Isola. direction: Luigi Dadina . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro 
The text Griot Fulêr is included in the book Griot Fulêr, by Luigi Dadina and Mandiaye N’Diaye, Aiep-Guaraldi, Repubblica di San Marino, 1994
Opening: Diourbel, Senegal, Théâtre de la Verdure, giugno 6 1993

Cenci
on stage: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari. Set design: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari. Light: Enrico Isola. direction: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari.
Production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Santarcangelo dei Teatri d’Europa.Opening: Santarcangelo, Palazzo Cenci, luglio 6 1993

Zitti tutti!
by Raffaello Baldini
on stage: Ivano Marescotti . set design and costumes: Sergio Tramonti . stagecraft: Stefano Iannetta . voice: Ermanna Montanari direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
The text Zitti tutti! is included in the book Zitti tutti!, by Raffaello Baldini, Ubulibri, Milano, 1993
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Alighieri, novembre 22 1993

Incantati, parabola dei fratelli calciatori
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Luigi Dadina, Maurizio Lupinelli, Fiorenza Menni, Ermanna Montanari . set design and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari . musical consultancy: Michele Sambin . light and sound: Enrico Isola . direction assistance: Pietro Babina . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
The text Incantati is included in the book Teatro impuro, by Marco Martinelli, Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1997
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, aprile 8 1994

Ippolito
by Ermanna Montanari, from Euripide and Marina Cvetaeva
on stage: Luigi De Angelis, Chiara Lagani, Fiorenza Menni, Ermanna Montanari, Francesca Proia . set design and costumes: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari . light and sound: Bruno Berno, Angelo Sintini . choreography: Monica Francia . collaboration to draaturgy: Marco Martinelli . direction: Ermanna Montanari . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, aprile 7 1995

Narrazione della pianura
by Luigi Dadina
on stage: Luigi Dadina . violin: Mirela Liço . set design, costumes and light: Enrico Isola . collaboration to dramaturgy: Marco Martinelli direction: Luigi Dadina . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
Opening: Piangipane, Teatro Socjale, maggio 15 1995

Lus
by Nevio Spadoni
on stage: Stefano Cortesi, Ermanna Montanari . collaboration to dramaturgy: Marco Martinelli . musical consultancy: Vanni Montanari . set design and costumes: Ermanna Montanari .light and sound: Angelo Sintini . direction: Ermanna Montanari . production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro, Comune di Ravenna
The text Lus is included in the book Lus. The Light, Ermanna Montanari performs Nevio Spadoni, edited by Teresa Picarazzi and Wiley Feinstein, Bordighera Press, West Lafayette, 1999 and in the book Teatro in dialetto romagnolo, by Nevio Spadoni, Edizioni del Girasole, Ravenna, 2003
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, dicembre 27 1995

Furistir
by Raffaello Baldini on stage: Ivano Marescotti . set and costumes: Ezio Antonelli musical consultancy: Angelo Sintini . light and sound: Luca Ruiba stagecraft: Matteo Gambi . dramaturgy and direction: Marco Martinelli .production: Ravenna Teatro, Comune di RavennaOpening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, febbraio 3 1996

All'inferno, affresco da Aristofane
by Marco Martinelli
on stage: Monica Contini, Luigi Dadina, Mirela Lico, Augusto Masiello, Robert Mc Neer, Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye, El Hadji Niang, Mor Awa Niang, Michele Sambin, Enzo Toma, Pia Wachter, Lucia Zotti . music by: Mirela Liço, El Hadiy Niang, Michele Sambin collaboration to dramaturgy: Ermanna Montanari . light design: Vincent Longuemare . set design and costumes: Michele Sambin . light and sound: Francesco Catacchio, Giacomo Gorini, Enrico Isola . assistant set and costumes design: Stefano Cortesi . assistant director: Teresa Ludovico, Mandiaye N’Diaye . organization: Diane Guerrier, Michele Longo, Marcella Nonni, in collaboration with Natalia di Iorio-Associazione Cadmo . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Ravenna Festival,Teatro Kismet Opera, Teatro delle Albe,Tam Teatromusica,Ravenna Teatro
Opening: Ravenna, Magazzino dello Zolfo alla Darsena di Città, giugno 29 1996

Perhindérion, trittico peregrinante
by Marco Martinelli and Nevio Spadoni
devised by: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari .on stage: Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina, Alessandro Bonoli, Francesca De Stefani, Cinzia Dezi, Angela Longo, Maurizio Lupinelli, Marco Martinelli, Sara Raschi, Banda Musicale Cittadina di Ravenna, Gruppo Ballerini Romagnoli “alla Casadei” . set design and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Cosetta Gardini adattamenti strutturali: Lorenzo Bazzocchi, Catia Gatelli . stagecraft, light and sound: Giancarlo Cottignoli, Enrico Isola, Marco Quondamatteo . direction: Marco Martinelli production: Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Festival, Ravenna Teatro
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, giugno 25 1998

I Polacchi, dall'irriducibile Ubu di Alfred Jarry
by Marco Martinelli
concept Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . on stage: Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Roberto Magnani and with Federico Califano, Mattia Colombo, Luca Fagioli, Damiano Gaudenzi, Alessandro Leone, Alessandro Minguzzi, Pierfrancesco Montanari, Kingsley Ngadiuba, Enrico Pezzi, Massimiliano Rassu, Riccardo Spirandelli, Raffaele Tellarini . stage design: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari . lighting project: Vincent Longuemare . “pylorus stair”: Lorenzo Bazzocchi, Catia Gatelli . light and sound technicians: Francesco Catacchio, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco . written and directed by: Marco Martinelli
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, dicembre 1 1998

Vita e conversione di Cheikh Ibrahim Fall
by Mandiaye N'Diaye and Marco Martinelli
on stage: Mandiaye N’Diaye, Mamadou Sène, El Hadji Niang . set and costumes design: Ermanna Montanari . stagecraft, light and sound: Enrico Isola, Alessandro Bonoli, Gerardo De Vita, Danilo Maniscalco, Andrea Mordenti . direction: Marco Martinelli . production: Ravenna Festival, Ravenna Teatro, in collaboration with Guediawaye Théâtre, Intercult . preview at Ravenna Festival 1999 with the title Perchè mai l’Uno io l’ho chiamato Due
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, gennaio 13 2000

Tingeltangel
from Karl Valentin
on stage: Luigi Dadina, Francesco Antonelli, Alessandro Argnani, Alessandro Bonoli, Carlo De Leonardo, Francesca De Stefani, Gerardo De Vita, Luca Fagioli, Rudy Gatta, Roberto Magnani, Andrea Marra, Angelo Marri, Gabriele Rassu, Alessandro Renda, Chiara Roncuzzi, Francesco Tedde . set design and costumes: Ermanna Montanari . stagecraft, light and sound: Enrico Isola, Alessandro Bonoli, Gerardo De Vita, Danilo Maniscalco, Andrea Mordenti . direction assistant: Maurizio Lupinelli . dramaturgy and direction Marco Martinelli
The text Tingeltangel is included in the book Tingeltangel, by Karl Valentin, Adelphi, Milano, 1980
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, marzo 1 2000

L'isola di Alcina, concerto per corno e voce romagnola

written by: Nevio Spadoni
concept: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . music and sound direction: Luigi Ceccarelli . with: Ermanna Montanari, Francesco Antonelli, Luca Fagioli, Roberto Magnani, Danilo Maniscalco, Alessandro Renda, Giusy Zanini . lighting design: Vincent Longuemare . scenes and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Cosetta Gardini . technical director: Enrico Isola . stagecraft: Cristina Campri, Giorgio Senni . lighting assistant: Gerardo De Vita, Francesco Catacchio . sound assistant: Giovanni Belvisi . scenes assistant "congrega Alcina": Paola Belletti, Melissa Cappelli, Francesca Gobbi, Anna Magnani, Eleonora Martoni, Valentina Venturi . stagecraft assistant: Andrea Mordenti, Gerardo De Vita. construction of the wall: Francesco Montelli . masks: il laboratorio dell’imperfetto . directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: La Biennale di Venezia, Ravenna Festival, Ravenna Teatro

 

L’isola di Alcina is inspired by the character of Alcina from Orlando furioso, Ludovico Ariosto.

Opening: La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Teatro Goldoni, giugno 8 2000

Baldus, riscrittura per lampi da Teofilo Folengo
by Marco Martinelli
concept: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . brigands on stage: Luigi Dadina, Francesco Antonelli, Giuseppe Aurilia, Alessandro Bonoli, Gerardo de Vita, Luca Fagioli, Roberto Magnani, Marco Mercante, Al essandro Renda . scenes and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Cosetta Gardini . lighting design: Vincent Longuemare . technical direction: Enrico Isola dramaturgic assistant: Renata Molinari . assistant director: Maurizio Lupinelli . directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Federcoop Ravenna, Comune di Ravenna - Assessorato alla Cultura
Opening: San Mauro Pascoli, Tinaie di Villa Torlonia, luglio 11 2000

Al placido Don, fantasmi dal fiume

by Renata Molinari e Luigi Dadina
on stage: Luigi Dadina . stage design and costumes: Enrico Isola . flashes: Marco Martinelli . Thanks to: Pasquale Saraceno, Wu Ming and Vitaliano Ravagli, Laura and Riccardo . Production: Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, novembre 22 2001

Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, riscrittura in giù da William Shakespeare
by Marco Martinelli
with Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Luigi Dadina, Roberto Magnani, Maurizio Lupinelli, Francesco Antonelli, Alessandro Argnani, Luca Fagioli, Massimiliano Rassu, Alessandro Renda, Michele Bandini, Cinzia Dezi, Nicole Garbellini, Emiliano Pergolari, Antonio Dikele Distefano, Moussa N’Diaye, Samba N’Diaye, Serigne Mbacke Niane, Bathie Niane, Madiama Fall, Falé Sarr, Pape Amadou Sowe, Salif Sowe. concept: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . music and sound direction: Luigi Ceccarelli . lighting design: Vincent Longuemare . scenes and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Cosetta Gardini . the syrene’s costume: il laboratorio dell’imperfetto . Bottom’s donkey head: Arianna Gallo, Luca Colomba . lighting assistants: Francesco Catacchio, Valentina Venturi . sound broadcasting: Angelo Benedetti, Giovanni Belvisi . sound assistant: Luca Fagioli . flute sounds: Gianni Trovalusci . audio recording and post-production: Edisonstudio Rome . technical director: Andrea Mordenti . stage director: Enrico Isola . stagehand/propman: Francesca Pambianco . stage technicians: Vincenzo Fico, Dennis Masotti, Jacopo Pranzini, Elisa Tirelli . assistant director: Francesca Amati . linguistic consultancy: Franco Nasi . translations and poetry in Romagnol dialect: Nevio Spadoni . promotion: Francesca Venturi . directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: La Biennale di Venezia, Ravenna Festival, Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Ravenna Teatro
Opening: La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, giugno 14 2002

I Refrattari, drammetto edificante
by Marco Martinelli
with: Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina, Mandiaye N’Diaye, Maurizio Lupinelli, Roberto Magnani. scenery and costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Cosetta Gardini . light design: Valentina Venturi . technical director: Enrico Isola . stagecraft: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Dennis Masotti, Francesca Panbianco, Elisa Tirelli . sound: Enrico Isola, Andrea Mordenti . Romagnol dialect consultant: Nevio Spadoni . promotion: Francesca Venturi . director: Marco Martinelli
producers: Ravenna Teatro and Santarcangelo dei Teatri
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, maggio 7 2003

Salmagundi, favola patriottica
by Marco Martinelli
with: Luigi Dadina, Maurizio Lupinelli, Alessandro Argnani, Luca Fagioli, Alessandro Renda, Michele Bandini, Consuelo Battiston, Daniela Bianchi, Alessandro Cafiso, Hélène Delpeyroux, Cinzia Dezi, Gianni Farina, Laura Gamucci, Elena Giovagnoli, Andrea Alessandro La Bozzetta, Michela Marangoni, Alessandro Miele, Emiliano Pergolari, Sara Pompanin, Laura Redaelli, Elisabetta Trupia . devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari . scenery and costumes: Ermanna Montanari and Cosetta Gardini . lighting project: Vincent Longuemare . technical direction: Enrico Isola . stage tehnicians: Fabio Ceroni, Danilo Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti, Francesca Pambianco . sound technicians: Giovanni Belvisi and Luca Fagioli . lights technicians: Andrea Mordenti and Valentina Venturi . lights assistant: Francesco Catacchio . scenery and costumes assistant: Roberto Magnani . director’s assistants: Paola Bartoli and Luca Ricci . musical consultancy: Luciano Titi . tap-dance teacher: Luca Pulega . metalwork: Camerani & Meldolesi . promotion: Francesca Venturi . director: Marco Martinelli . production: Ravenna Teatro, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Comune di Ravenna, Mittelfest 2004
Opening: Mittelfest, Cividale del Friuli, Teatro Ristori, luglio 17 2004

La mano, de profundis rock
text Luca Doninelli
music and sound direction: Luigi Ceccarelli . devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari . director: Marco Martinelli . with: Ermanna Montanari, Roberto Magnani. set design and costumes: Edoardo Sanchi . light design: Vincent Longuemare . lights’ assistant: Francesco Catacchio . sound assistant: Giovanni Belvisi . scenery assistants: Cristina Del Zotto, Paolo Fantin . direction assistant: Maurizio Lupinelli . technical director: Enrico Isola . technical crew Teatro delle Albe: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Giuseppe Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti . studio recording of electric guitars: Marco Biniero, Gabriele Bombardini . masks by: Francesca Pambianco . promotion: Francesca Venturi . thanks to: Cristina Bonfanti, Cosetta Gardini, Ivano Marescotti, Francesca Proia, Antonio Rinaldi, A.N.G.E.L.O., Daniel Cordova, the technical and production crew of Le manège.mons; production Le manège.mons/Centre Dramatique, Ravenna Festival, Le Phénix Scène Nationale de Valenciennes, Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Comune di Ravenna, Edisonstudio
 
 
The text of La mano de profundis rock is included in the box La mano de profundis rock, Teatro delle Albe, Luca Sossella edition, Roma, 2006
Opening: Mons (Belgio), Les Arbalestriers, febbraio 18 2005

MIGHTY MIGHTY UBU
from L'irriducibile Ubu di Alfred Jarry
by Marco Martinelli 
dramaturgy and direction: Marco Martinelli . on stage: Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N'Diaye, Maurizio Lupinelli, Thomas Simpson, Bethel Abraham, Mohammed Ali, Widney Gay, Gashu Getahun, Fatimah Hernandez, Martial Kengne, John Ojuoti, Oseghale Owegbey, Muyiwa Tajudeen, Christopher Williams . lights: Francesco Catacchio . set design: Ermanna Montanari costumes design: Cosetta Gardini, Ermanna Montanari 
Opening: Chicago, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, giugno 9 2005

La canzone degli F.P. e degli I.M., lettura pubblica

by Elsa Morante
with: Alessandro Argnani, Luca Fagioli, Roberto Magnani, Alessandro Renda . conceived and directed by: Marco Martinelli . promotion: Silvia Pagliano . production: Ravenna Teatro

Opening: VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival, Modena, Biblioteca Civica d'Arte Poletti, ottobre 28 2005

LEBEN, operina in valigia

by Marco Martinelli
with: Alessandro Argnani, Luigi Dadina, Riccardo Dadina, Cinzia Dezi, Luca Fagioli, Marco Fariselli, Roberto Magnani, Michela Marangoni, Ermanna Montanari, Massimiliano Rassu, Laura Redaelli, Alessandro Renda . idea: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari . scenic space: Vincent Longuemare, Ermanna Montanari . costumes: Ermanna Montanari . lighting design: Vincent Longuemare . technical director: Enrico Isola . lighting assistant: Francesco Catacchio . sound and musical research: Davide Sacco . musical consultancy: Franco Masotti . singing techinique: Giulia Dal Maso . construction scenic space by technical crew Teatro delle Albe: Fabio Ceroni, Camilla Cerretti, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Giuseppe Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti, Francesca Pambianco, Giorgio Ritucci . costumes by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O. . masks design: Luca Colomba, Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba. chorus of apsidals’s assistant: Cinzia Dezi, Michela Marangoni, Laura Redaelli . promotion: Silvia Pagliano . production: Ravenna Teatro direction: Marco Martinelli . thanks to: Alex & Chris, Adriana Babini, Raffaello Biagetti, Luigi Ceccarelli, Cosetta Gardini, Legatoria Universo, Chiara Maroncelli, Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Stefania Nanni, Franco Nasi, Nuvola Fashion Stock, Barbara Pambianchi, Sara Panzavolta, Post Post, Francesca Proia, Ravenna Festival, Edoardo Sanchi, Space, Roberta Staffa, Cristina Ventrucci

The text LEBEN is included in the book Scherzo, satira, ironia e significato profondo by Marco Martinelli, Editoria & Spettacolo, 2007
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, novembre 7 2006

Sterminio

by Werner Schwab
translation: Sonia Antinori 

direction: Marco Martinelli . with: Alessandro Argnani, Paola Bigatto, Luigi Dadina, Cinzia Dezi, Michela Marangoni, Ermanna Montanari, Laura Redaelli scenic space Enrico Isola, Vincent Longuemare . costumes: Vincent Longuemare, Ermanna Montanari lighting design: Vincent Longuemare . technical director: Enrico Isola . lighting assistant: Francesco Catacchio . musics of interludes: Olivier Messiaen, "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" (1940) musical consultancy: Franco Masotti . costumes by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O. construction scenic space by technical crew Teatro delle Albe: Fabio Ceroni, Camilla Cerretti, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Giuseppe Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti, Francesca Pambianco, Giorgio Ritucci . stage technicians: Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco . photo: Christian Contin . promotion: Silvia Pagliano . production: Ravenna Teatro . thanks to: Maria Luisa Bertozzi, Edda Cottignoli, Viola Giacometti, Italsedie, Leda Minguzzi, Donata Modanesi, Renata Molinari, Barbara Pambianchi, Edoardo Sanchi, Cristina Ventrucci
The text Sterminio is included in the book Drammi Fecali by Werner Schwab, Ubulibri, Milano, 2006
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, novembre 14 2006

Ubu buur

written and directed by: Marco Martinelli
idea: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Mandiaye N’Diaye . with: Mandiaye N’Diaye, Ermanna Montanari, Roberto Magnani, Danilo Maniscalco and with Boubacar Diaw, Moussa Gning, Mamadou Kaire, Mame Mor Diop, Aliou N’Diaye, Cheikh N’Diaye, Mamadou N’Diaye, M’Baye Babacar N’Diaye, Mor N’Diaye, Mouhamadou N’Diaye, Ndiaga N’Diaye, Kingsley Ngadiuba, Amadou Sow, Meraviglia Dikele Distefano, Janet Ngadiuba, Dieumbe Niang, Fama Niang, Antonio Dikele Distefano, Amadou Sow, Salif Sow. scenes: Ermanna Montanari . costumes: Ermanna Montanari and Roberto Magnani . lighting design: Francesco Catacchio . sound: Enrico Isola . stage technicians: Danilo Maniscalco, Massimiliano Rassu . production: Ravenna Teatro, Festival des Francophonies en Limousin, Comune di Ravenna-Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili, Provincia di Ravenna in collaboration with Teatro Festival Italia (Napoli), VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival (Modena) . Thanks to: A.N.G.E.L.O., Garden Center Il Gelso, Merceria La Beneficenza, Valérie Monnier, Plasticose, Post Post, Sartoria Pasini Zoli, Sporty.

European opening: Festival des Francophonies en Limousin, Limoges, 4, 5, 7 October 2007; National opening: Festival Teatro Italia, Napoli (Italy), 11 October 2007; VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival, Modena (Italy), 18 October 2007; Nobodaddy, Ravenna (Italy), 25, 26, 27 October 2007.

Opening: Teatro Festival Italia, Napoli, ottobre 11 2007

Rosvita, lettura concerto

by Ermanna Montanari
with: Sara Gandolino, Michela Marangoni, Ermanna Montanari, Laura Redaelli . space-light and costumes: Enrico Isola, Ermanna Montanari . project assistant space-light and costumes: Claire Pasquier . technical direction: Enrico Isola . original musics and sound design: Davide Sacco . musical consultancy for the Gregorian chant: Elena Sartori . scenes realized by the technical crew of Teatro delle Albe: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Massimiliano Rassu . photos and collage: Claire Pasquier . layout: Barbara Fusconi . directed by: Marco Martinelli . promotion: Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi . production: Teatro delle Albe - Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Ravenna Festival and deSidera Bergamo Teatro Festival . thanks to: Luca Doninelli, Nando Randi and Giuseppe Padula for Galleria Ninapì, Franco Fussi, MAGADIS International Music Agency, A.N.G.E.L.O., SPACE, Anna Ferrante Sacco
NOTE: the author has loosely revised the translations from the book ROSVITA, dramaturgical dialogs, edited by Ferruccio Bertini, Milano, Garzanti, 2000

Opening: Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Rocca Brancaleone, giugno 20 2008

Stranieri

by Antonio Tarantino 

director: Marco Martinelli . with: Luigi Dadina, Ermanna Montanari, Alessandro Renda. set and costumes design: Enrico Isola, Ermanna Montanari . sets and costumes assistant: Claire Pasquier . lights design: Vincent Longuemare . technical director: Enrico Isola . lights assistant: Francesco Catacchio . sound design: Davide Sacco . sets built by Teatro delle Albe technical team: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Dennis Masotti, Danilo Maniscalco, Massimiliano Rassu . video appearances: Alessandro Renda . photos: Claire Pasquier . head of organisation: Marcella Nonni . promotion: Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi . thanks to: A.N.G.E.L.O., B.O. Service, Marco Bravura, Laura Graziani Alta Moda, Pierluigi Isola, Joint Rent, Gerardo La Mattina, Valeria Nonni, Post Post . produced by: Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione - VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival
The text of Stranieri is included in the book La casa di Ramallah e altre conversazioni, di Antonio Tarantino, Ubulibri, Milano, 2006
Opening: VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival, Carpi (Modena), Auditorium San Rocco, ottobre 10 2008

Ouverture Alcina

Alcina:  Ermanna Montanari
music: Luigi Ceccarelli

text: Nevio Spadoni
devised by Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli
space, lightings, director:  Marco Martinelli
stage technician: Danilo Maniscalco and  Luca Fagioli
production: Teatro delle Albe - Ravenna Teatro, Ravenna Festival
Opening: Magfest, Pescara, aprile 5 2009

Aria pubblica

by Patrizia Cavalli 

“vocal miniature”
girl in a suitcase: Laura Redaelli . boar man: Luca Fagioli/Antonio Maiani . curated by: Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli . sound and light technician: Luca Fagioli . production: Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, giugno 9 2009

Odisea, lettura selvatica

by Tonino Guerra 

translation: Giuseppe Bellosi . with: Roberto Magnani
curator: Marco Martinelli . sound and lights: Luca Fagioli . production: Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, giugno 9 2009

detto Moliere

by Marco Martinelli
devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
on stage: Alessandro Argnani, Jean-Claude Derudder, Alain Eloy, Hippolyte Eloy, Matteo Fournier, Lindsay Ginepri, Roberto Magnani, Mélissa Pire, Viviane Thiébaud, Guillaume Verstraete . pupils of Conservatoire Royal de Mons: Aubeline Barbieux, Christophe Canu, Laure Cecilio, Mathilde Goeris, Sophie Guisset, Lionel Liégeois, Mathieu Moro, Anaïs Pellin, Jonathan Robert, Mélodie Valemberg, Marie Vanrossomme and 15 adolescents from Mons . original musics: Eloi Baudimont . space, light and costumes: Enrico Isola, Claire Pasquier . musicians: Thomas Giry, Marti Melia, Nico Roig . history consultancy and discussions about everything: Gerardo Guccini . technical management: Enrico Isola, Manu Yasse . sound technician: Julien Rasetti
stage technicians: Thibaut Dubois, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco . scenes construction: Vincent Rutten . assistant director and translations: Francesco Mormino . directed by: Marco Martinelli . production: le manège.mons/Centre Dramatique, Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro, La Rose de Vents Scène Nationale Lille Métropole, la Maison de la Culture de Tournai in collaboration with Conservatoire Royal and Centre des Arts scéniques di Mons

Opening: Mons (Belgio), Théâtre le Manège, febbraio 9 2010

L'Avaro
by Molière

translation: Cesare Garboli
devised by :Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
on stage: Loredana Antonelli, Alessandro Argnani, Luigi Dadina, Laura Dondoli, Luca Fagioli, Roberto Magnani, Michela Marangoni, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Alice Protto, Massimiliano Rassu, Laura Redaelli . set design: Edoardo Sanchi . lights design: Francesco Catacchio and Enrico Isola . original musics: Davide Sacco . costume design: Paola Giorgi . technical director: Enrico Isola . set design assistant: Gregorio Zurla . costume design assistants: Giada Masi and Maria Adele Porro . set built by: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Nicola Fagnani (Opera Ovunque), Gregorio Zurla . costumes made by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O. . poster for the show: Leila Marzocchi . photo by: Claire Pasquier . directed by: Marco Martinelli . organisational manager: Marcella Nonni . organisation and promotion: Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Ventur
production: Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with AMAT (Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali) and ERT (Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione).

Opening: Modena , Teatro Storchi, aprile 15 2010

Rumore di acque
devised by: Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari 
writer and director: Marco Martinelli 
on stage: Alessandro Renda
music composed and performed by: Fratelli Mancuso / original recorded music: Guy Klucevsek *
space, lights, costume design: Ermanna Montanari, Enrico Isola 
costumes made by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O.
technical director: Enrico Isola
sound engineer: Fabio Ceroni
sets built by Teatro delle Albe Technical Team: Fabio Ceroni, Luca Fagioli, Danilo Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti 
co-production Ravenna Festival, Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro
Under the patronage of Amnesty International (download logo)

* since 2015 there are two different versions of this performance 
Opening: Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, luglio 10 2010

Incantati, parabola dei fratelli calciatori
by Marco Martinelli
with: Alessandro Argnani, Luigi Dadina, Michela Marangoni, Laura Redaelli 
live music: Simone Marzocchi 
scenes, lights, costumes: Ermanna Montanari, Enrico Isola, Roberto Magnani 
sound: Fagio
directed by: Marco Martinelli 
production: Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro
Opening: Festival Da vicino nessuno è normale, Milano, ex Ospedale Psichiatrico Paolo Pini, giugno 17 2012

Poco lontano da qui
by and with Chiara Guidi and Ermanna Montanari
original sounds: Giuseppe Ielasi . lights devising: Enrico Isola
sound engineer: Marco Canali . lights engineer: Fagio . production technicians: Fagio, Danilo Maniscalco . technical direction: Enrico Isola in collaboration with Luciano Trebbi . set construction: technical crew Teatro delle Albe – Fabio Ceroni, Fagio, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco, Giuseppe Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti in collaboration with Antonio
Barbadoro . ciborium drawing: Irena Kraljic . costumes made by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O. . props: Carmen Castellucci . photos: Cesare Fabbri . organization: Valentina Bertolino, Cosetta Nicolini, Silvia Pagliano . presse attaché: Rosalba Ruggeri . trainees: Marianna Caruso, Irena Kraljic . technical support:  Audio73, Tema Show Service 
production: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio and Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro
coproduction:  Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Comune di Bologna, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Festival delle Colline Torinesi-Torino Creazione Contemporanea, Ravenna 2019 Città Candidata Capitale Europea della Cultura, Santarcangelo •12•13•14 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza
Opening: Màntica Festival, Teatro Comandini, Cesena, ottobre 2 2012

Pantani
by Marco Martinelli
devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
with: Alessandro Argnani, Luigi Dadina, Roberto Magnani, Michela Marangoni, Ermanna Montanari, Francesco Mormino, Laura Redaelli . on video: Pino Roncucci . stage raid: Francesco Catacchio, Fagio . itineraries in Romagna: Luigi Dadina . accordion, musical compositions: Simone Zanchini . Romagnol songs: Michela Marangoni, Laura Redaelli . stage set devised by: Alessandro Panzavolta-Orthographe . devising and creation of props: Fabio Ceroni, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco, Ermanna Montanari . video montage and processing: Alessandro and Francesco Tedde – Black Box Film . costumes: Teatro delle Albe . costumes made by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda, A.N.G.E.L.O., Les Jolies Sposi . technical director: Enrico Isola . lights and video technician: Francesco Catacchio . sound engineer: Fagio . slides: Olycom/Publifoto, Olycom/Daniele Venturelli, Olycom/Arnaldo Magnani, Lauro Bordin . choirmaster: Matteo Unich – Artistic Director of the “Pratella-Martuzzi” Choir . photos: Claire Pasquier . poster for the show: Cosetta Gardini, Giuseppe Tolo-Casa Walden . organization: Marcella Nonni, Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi . presse attachés: Rosalba Ruggeri, Matteo Cavezzali . direction: Marco Martinelli
co-production: Teatro delle Albe - Ravenna Teatro, le manège.mons - Scène Transfrontalière de création et de diffusion asbl (Belgium)
Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, novembre 16 2012

A te come te
by Giovanni Testori
“stage reading” from an idea by Gabriele Allevi and Luca Doninelli
voice: Ermanna Montanari
singing: Michela Marangoni and Laura Redaelli
lights and sound: Fagio
promotion: Francesca Venturi
directed by: Marco Martinelli
co-production: Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro, deSidera Festival
in collaboration with Bergamo Candidata Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019
thanks to A.N.G.E.L.O., Laura Graziani Alta Moda, Danilo Maniscalco, Alain Toubas, Comune di Capriate San Gervasio, Cooperativa Coclea, Parco Adda Nord, Promoisola
Opening: Crespi d'Adda, luglio 11 2013

La camera da ricevere

by Ermanna Montanari

sound engineer: Fagio
promotion and organisation: Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi
produced by: Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Auditorium Sala A, Via Asiago 10, Rome on 28 May 2013

 


RASSEGNA STAMPA

Opening: Teatro Binario, Cotignola (Ra), ottobre 12 2013

Canzone dei luoghi comuni
Opening: Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, settembre 12 2014

Il giocatore
Opening: Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, settembre 12 2014

Amore e anarchia

by Luigi Dadina and Laura Gambi

with: Luigi Dadina and Michela Marangoni
sets and light design: Pietro Fenati and Elvira Mascanzoni
sounds: Alessandro Renda
technical direction: Enrico Isola
light and sound engineer: Dennis Masotti
sets built by: Fabio Ceroni and Danilo Maniscalco
costumes made by: Lubiana Zaffi
organisation and promotion: Marcella Nonni, Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi
graphic design, layout: Barbara Fusconi
photographs: Davide Baldrati
hystorical researches and consultancy: Massimo Ortalli Archivio Storico FAI and Cristina Valenti University of Bologna
directed by: Luigi Dadina
produced by Ravenna Teatro

 

RASSEGNA STAMPA

 

Opening: Vulkano, San Bartolo, Ravenna, ottobre 3 2014

Vita agli arresti di Aung San Suu Kyi

by Marco Martinelli

devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
with: Ermanna Montanari, Roberto Magnani, Alice Protto,
Massimiliano Rassu
foray on stage: Fagio
music: Luigi Ceccarelli
sets and costumes: Ermanna Montanari
costumes assistant: Roberto Magnani
lights: Francesco Catacchio, Enrico Isola
montage and video elaboration: Alessandro Tedde, Francesco Tedde
sound creation: Edisonstudio Rome
sound engineer: Fagio
props by Teatro delle Albe technical team: Fabio Ceroni, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco
masks by: Antonio Barbadoro
vintage clothing by: A.N.G.E.L.O.
dressmaking by: Laura Graziani Alta Moda
linguistic consultancy: Naing Lin Aung
technical director: Enrico Isola
stills: Enrico Fedrigoli
press office: Matteo Cavezzali, Rosalba Ruggeri
production coordinators and promotion: Marcella Nonni, Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi
director: Marco Martinelli
production Teatro delle Albe – Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione

 

RASSEGNA STAMPA

Opening: VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival, Teatro Herberia, Rubiera, ottobre 24 2014

Lus

concerto performance by Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Ceccarelli, Daniele Roccato

 

text Nevio Spadoni music Luigi Ceccarelli, Daniele Roccato with Ermanna Montanari (voice), Luigi Ceccarelli (live electronics), Daniele Roccato (double-bass) director Marco Martinelli sets and costumes Margherita Manzelli, Ermanna Montanari Bêlda’s dress designed by Margherita Manzelli background animation with original works by Margherita Manzelli curated by Margherita Manzelli, Alessandro and Francesco Tedde sound design Marco Olivieri lighting design Francesco Catacchio lighting technician Luca Pagliano technical direction Fagio video elaboration and technique Alessandro and Francesco Tedde – Antropotopia props created by the Teatro delle Albe technical team Alessandro Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Enrico Isola, Dennis Masotti, Francesca Pambianco dressmaking Laura Graziani Alta Moda press office Debora Pietrobono, Rosalba Ruggeri promotion and organization Silvia Cassanelli, Silvia Pagliano
coproduction ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Teatro delle Passioni, Modena, gennaio 16 2015

Farsi luogo, lettura pubblica

by Marco Martinelli

Farsi luogo. Varco al teatro in 101 movimenti, by Marco Martinelli, Cue Press, 2015.

Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, dicembre 10 2015

E' bal

di e con: Roberto Magnani e Simone Marzocchi
testo: Nevio Spadoni
musica: Simone Marzocchi
realizzazione strumenti musicali: Giovanni Cavalcoli, Fabio Ceroni, Roberto Magnani, Danilo Maniscalco, Simone Marzocchi
tecnico luci e suono: Fagio 
tecnici di produzione: Fagio, Andrea Napolitano, Massimiliano Rassu
organizzazione e promozione: Silvia Pagliano; Francesca Venturi
produzione: Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

 

RASSEGNA STAMPA

Opening: Vulkano, San Bartolo, Ravenna, febbraio 23 2016

Maryam

text Luca Doninelli 
on stage
 Ermanna Montanari 
music Luigi Ceccarelli

sound design Marco Olivieri
lighting design Francesco Catacchio 
technical direction Fagio
space and costumes assistant Roberto Magnani 
consultancy and arabic translation of the text Tahar Lamri
on video Khadija Assoulaimani 
video editing Alessandro Renda 
voice and percussions Marzouk Mejri 
music recorded at Edisonstudio Roma 
idea, space, costumes and direction Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

production Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Teatro de gli Incamminati/deSidera


thanks to Luisa Orelli for the precious suggestions about Koranic spirituality, Yiad Hafez for the consultancy on arabic music, E production, Gerardo Lamattina

 

Opening: MILANO, Teatro Elfo Puccini, febbraio 8 2017

Inferno, Chiamata Pubblica per la "Divina Commedia" di Dante Alighieri

devising, artistic direction and directing by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

 

on stage Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli, Alessandro Argnani, Luigi Dadina, Roberto Magnani, Gianni Plazzi, Massimiliano Rassu, Laura Redaelli, Alessandro Renda and the citizens of the Public Call

music Luigi Ceccarelli with the pupils of the school of Electronic Music and pupils of the school of Percussion of the State Conservatory Ottorino Respighi-Latina and with the participation of the pupils of the Giuseppe Verdi Higher Institute of Musical Studies-Ravenna

set design Edoardo Sanchi with students of the Two Year Specialisation in Stage Design for Theatre at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera-Milan

costumes Paola Giorgi with Salvatore Averzano and students of Stage Costumes at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera-Milan

sound design Marco Olivieri

lighting design Francesco Catacchio

technical direction Enrico Isola and Fagio

 

production Ravenna Festival in coproduction with Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe

 

PRESS RELEASE

 


Servizio su "Fahrenheit", Rai Radio 3, puntata del 24 gennaio 2017

Servizio su "Chi è di scena", Tg3, puntata del 21 maggio 2017

Servizio su "Il teatro di Radio3", Rai Radio 3, puntata del 3 giugno 2017

Servizio su "Chi è di scena", Tg3, puntata dell'11 giugno 2017

Servizio su "Retroscena", TV2000, puntata del 13 giugno 2017

Podcast del servizio su "For.Mat", Rai Radio 3, puntata del 16 giugno 2017

Gallery fotografica su Amadeus

Servizio su Amadeus, 22 luglio 2017

Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, maggio 25 2017

Vita agli arresti di Aung San Suu Kyi

 

Written and Directed by Marco Martinelli

 

Recognised by Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo - Direzione generale per il Cinema

with the support of Regione Emilia Romagna - Film Commission
Under the patronage of Amnesty International Italia and Associazione per l'Amicizia Italia Birmania Giuseppe Malpeli
with the support of Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna - Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A.
CMC - Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti

produced by Teatro delle Albe - Ravenna Teatro
coproduced by StartCinema

 

cast
Ermanna Montanari
Elio De Capitani and with the friendly participation of Sonia Bergamasco
Roberto Magnani, Fagio, Alice Protto, Massimiliano Rassu
Vincenzo Nemolato and Christian Giroso playing the “Moustache Brothers”

 

Appearing for the first time on screen the young actresses
Ippolita Ginevra Santandrea, Sara Briccolani, Alessandra Brusi, Catalina Burioli, Olimpia Isola, Benedetta Velotti

 

script Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

 

photography Pasquale Mari
set designer Edoardo Sanchi
costumes Giada Masi
editor Natalie Cristiani
supervising editor Jacopo Quadri
music Luigi Ceccarelli
sound Marco Parollo
sound design Maurizio Argentieri

distributed by RUNNING TV
press office Studio Alfa/ Lorenza Somogyi Bianchi

 


DOSSIER FILM

OFFICIAL PHOTOS (high res) - OFFICIAL PHOTOS (low res for website)

RASSEGNA STAMPA

 

World premiere Biografilm Festival 2017 

 

Opening: Biografilm Festival Bologna, giugno 17 2017

Miniature Campianesi, lettura pubblica

by Ermanna Montanari

Miniature campianesi, written by Ermanna Montanari and illustrated by Leila Marzocchi, Oblomov Edizioni, dicembre 2016.

Opening: Perugia, ottobre 8 2017

Va pensiero

by Marco Martinelli

devised and directed by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

on stage Ermanna Montanari, Alessandro Argnani, Tonia Garante, Roberto Magnani, Mirella Mastronardi, Alessandro Miele, Ernesto Orrico, Gianni Parmiani, Laura Redaelli, Alessandro Renda 

with the participation of the Alessandro Bonci Operatic Choir of Cesena

stage raid Fagio, Luca Pagliano

choir director Stefano Nanni

sets Edoardo Sanchi

costumes Giada Masi

lighting design Fabio Sajiz

music Marco Olivieri

sound Marco Olivieri, Fagio

music consultancy Gerardo Guccini

lights technician Luca Pagliano

technician Danilo Maniscalco

video montage and processing Alessandro Renda

sets assistant Carla Conti Guglia

props created by the Teatro delle Albe technical team Alessandro Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti

costumes made by Laura Graziani Alta Moda
vintage garments A.N.G.E.L.O.
technical direction Fagio
photos Silvia Lelli
press office Rosalba Ruggeri, Alessandro Fogli, Silvia Pacciarini
promotion and organization Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi

 

production Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

 

The show shall make use of several choirs during the tour:

Bergamo and Milano: Coro Gli Harmonici directed by Maestro Fabio Alberti

Pordenone: Coro Polifonico di Ruda directed by Maestro Fabiana Noro

Roma: Corale Polifonica Città di Anzio directed by Maestro David Masci and Maestro Michele Zanoni

Pisa: Coro Laboratorio Lirico San Nicola directed by Maestro Stefano Barandoni

Torino: Coro Mikron directed by Maestro Paola De Faveri and Maestro Marco Cordiano

Reggio Emilia: Coro Lirico A. Bonci Cesena directed by Maestro Raffaella Benini

Pavia: Coro Giuseppe Verdi directed by Maestro Enzo Consogno

Udine: Coro Polifonico di Ruda

Trieste: coro Misto/Zbor “Jacobus Gallus”

Trento: Coro Laboratorio d’Opera del Conservatorio “F.A. Bonporti”

Brescia: coro lirico bresciano “G. Verdi”

 

For the performances from 2017 to 2019, the part of Rosario is performed by Salvatore Caruso, replaced by Alessandro Miele from 2020.

 
Opening: Teatro Storchi, Modena, novembre 23 2017

fedeli d'Amore, polittico in sette quadri per Dante Alighieri

by Marco Martinelli

 

devised and directed by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

on stage Ermanna Montanari

music Luigi Ceccarelli

trumpet Simone Marzocchi

sound director Marco Olivieri

space and costumes Ermanna Montanari and Anusc Castiglioni

shadows Anusc Castiglioni

light design Enrico Isola

lighting technician Luca Pagliano

video technician Fagio

shadows technician Alessandro Pippo Bonoli

recorded Persian setar Darioush Madani

musical realisation Edisonstudio Roma

musical consultancy Francesco Altilio, Giulio Cintoni, Cristian Maddalena, Mirjana Nardelli, Fabrizio Nastari, Giovanni Tancredi, Andrea Veneri

iconographic consultancy Alessandro Volpe

dressmaking by Laura Graziani Alta Moda

graphics and silk-screen printing on fabric La Stamperia laboratorio artistico di A. Mosconi

stage props created by the Teatro delle Albe technical team Alessandro Pippo Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Fagio, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti, Luca Pagliano

organisation and promotion Silvia Pagliano, Francesca Venturi

press office Rosalba Ruggeri

produced by Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro in collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival - Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2018 (progetto cofinanaziato da POC Campania 2014-2020) and Teatro Alighieri-Ravenna

national première Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 15, 16, 17 June

 

 

Opening: Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, giugno 15 2018

I Fatti, l'aria infiammabile delle paludi
Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, giugno 28 2018

Thioro, un Cappuccetto Rosso senegalese

devising Alessandro Argnani, Simone Marzocchi and Laura Redaelli
on stage Fallou Diop, Adama Gueye, Andrea Carella
organization Moussa Ndiaye 
direction Alessandro Argnani
co-production Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro, Accademia Perduta/Romagna Teatri, Ker Théâtre Mandiaye N’Diaye

thanks to Casa Residenza Anziani e Centro Diurno “Garibaldi e Zarabbini”

 

Opening: Teatro Goldoni, Bagnacavallo, luglio 4 2018

Macbetto o la chimica della materia, Trasmutazioni da Giovanni Testori

MACBET Roberto Magnani
LEDI MACBET Consuelo Battiston
THE WITCH Eleonora Sedioli

 

conception, space, costumes and direction Roberto Magnani
music Simone Marzocchi
choreography Eleonora Sedioli
technique Luca Pagliano
harpsichord Chiara Cattani
set design Masque Teatro; technical team Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro: Danilo Maniscalco, Fabio Ceroni, Luca Pagliano; Antonio Barbadoro
video Alessandro Renda
stage photos Enrico Fedrigoli
organisation Francesca Venturi, Ilenia Carrone
thanks to Associazione Giovanni Testori, A.N.G.E.L.O., Sabrina Fiore, Matteo Gatta, Maria Rossini


co-production Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro, Masque Teatro, Menoventi / e-production

Opening: Teatro Felix Guattari, Forlì, settembre 15 2018

Saluti da Brescello

dramaturgy and direction Marco Martinelli

with Luigi Dadina, Gianni Parmiani

lighting and sound technician Dennis Masotti

production Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, settembre 17 2018

Purgatorio, Chiamata Pubblica per la "Divina Commedia" di Dante Alighieri

devising, artistic direction and directing Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

on stage Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli, Alessandro Argnani, Roberto Magnani, Laura Redaelli, Alessandro Renda in Matera with Nadia Casamassima, Alessandra Crocco, Alessandro Miele, Salvatore Tringali and in Ravenna with Luigi Dadina, Matteo Gatta, Frank Hentschker, Mirella Mastronardi, Marco Montanari, Gianni Plazzi, Massimiliano Rassu and the Citizens of Public Call music Luigi Ceccarelli in collaboration with Giacomo Piermatti and Vincenzo Core and with the pupils of the School of Electronic Music and Percussion of the State Conservatory Ottorino Respighi - Latina and with the partecipation of Simone Marzocchi set design and costumes students of Stage Design for Theatre and Stage Costumes at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera - Milan coordinated by Edoardo Sanchi and Paola Giorgi in collaboration with Fine Arts Academy of Brera - Milan sound design Marco Olivieri lighting design Fabio Sajiz technical direction Enrico Isola and Fagio

coproduction Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 and Ravenna Festival/Teatro Alighieri in collaboration with Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Matera - Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019, maggio 17 2019

Pane e petrolio

by Paola Berselli, Luigi Dadina, Stefano Pasquini on stage Paola Berselli, Luigi Dadina, Maurizio Ferraresi, Stefano Pasquini directed by Stefano Pasquini in collaboration with Laura Gambi organization Irene Bartolini, Veronica Gennari technical direction Dennis Masotti press office Raffaella Ilari, Alessandro Fogli coproduction Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro, Teatro delle Ariette

Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, settembre 17 2019

The Sky over Kibera

by Marco Martinelli 


for the first time on the screen 150 students from Nairobi (Kenya) schools Little Prince School, Ushirika Centre, Cardinal Otunga High School, Urafiki Carovana Primary School supported by  AVSI


script Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
script consultant Riccardo Bonacina
original music Daniele Roccato
assistant director Laura Redaelli
editor Francesco Tedde 
post-production Antropotopia
general organisation Marcella Nonni e Silvia Pagliano
distributed by Maria Martinelli
consultancy and relations with the press Rosalba Ruggeri
executive producer Alessandro Cappello 

produced by Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe 
in collaboration with Fondazione AVSI, Vita non profit magazine, Kamera Film, Antropotopia

Opening: Filmmaker Festival - Milano, novembre 23 2019

MADRE

by and with Ermanna Montanari, Stefano Ricci, Daniele Roccato

stage poem by Marco Martinelli

sound director Marco Olivieri
lighting technician Luca Pagliano
technical director Enrico Isola, Fagio
Teatro delle Albe technical team for stage elements Alessandro Pippo Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Fagio, Enrico Isola, Danilo Maniscalco, Dennis Masotti, Luca Pagliano
production and promotion Silvia Pagliano
organisation Francesca Venturi and Veronica Gennari
press relations and consulting Rosalba Ruggeri
a Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro production, in a collaboration with Primavera dei Teatri, Associazione Officine Theatrikés Salénto

Opening: Primavera dei teatri, Castrovillari - Teatro Sybaris, ottobre 14 2020

Er

a film by Marco Martinelli
dedicated to the art-in-life of Ermanna
 
with Ermanna Montanari

montage of archival material Marco Martinelli, Francesco Tedde

press relations Rosalba Ruggieri
organization and promotion Marcella Nonni, Silvia Pagliano, with Francesca Venturi and Veronica Gennari

production Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe in collaboration with Antropotopia
 
Archival Material Teatro delle Albe

I brandelli della Cina che abbiamo in testa directed by Maria Martinelli, production Albe di Verhaeren, ST. ART; Ippolito directed by Gerardo Lamattina; Sterminio video by Alessandro Renda; L'Avaro video by Alessandro Tedde and Francesco Tedde; Siamo asini o pedanti? video by TV ARD/Germany; LUS directed by Gianni Celati, production Pierrot e la rosa; Perhindérion video by Stefano Mordini; Museum Historiae Ubuniversalis by Alessandro Renda, distribution Ubulibri; Ubu Buur by Alessandro Renda, distribution Ubulibri; Rosvita-Lettura Concerto by Aqua-Micans Group, distribution Luca Sossella Editore; Pantani video by Alessandro Renda and Marco Martinelli; L'isola di Alcina by Nico Garrone; Cenci video by Isabella Ciarchi


special thanks to Maria Martinelli, Cosetta Gardini, Laura Redaelli, and the donkeys of the Po plains and streets of Campiano
 

 

synopsis

Er is a 2020 film by Marco Martinelli that extracts a “golden section” from his archive of work created over four decades with Ermanna Montanari.

Er is a homage to Ermanna and her art as actress and author ever in search of new forms, sounds, voices. Images from their productions are graft to a long walk taken by Ermanna, seen from behind, striding along a road in her native Romagnol countryside. Scenes from plays emerge and flower in counterpoint to her step. Er takes us into the mind of Ermanna, evoking the combination of errancy and error at the root of Platonic thought.

Errancy—wandering freely—is at the root of a poetics of making/unmaking/re-making ever present in the theatre of Ermanna and Marco: always on the road, a mise en scène that is a mise en vie.
 
director’s Note

This film was born from a desire to give thanks for the extraordinary art of Ermanna, her visage and voice; to reciprocate the gift she has given me over forty years of life and theatre together.
 The key to the film is the journey undertaken by Er in Book Ten of Plato’s Republic: Er is a warrior who, dying, descends into underworld together with other souls, where he is told that he will return to life only after having first traveled throughout the realm of death so that he later may tell the living what awaits them. I have found the perfect myth to express this actress’s practice of plunging into the unconscious, encountering the demons and angels who inhabit what Ermanna calls “my condominium”. Ermanna, a rare name for a woman, derives from Hermann, German for “warrior”.
 Around Ermanna’s walk along the country roads of her native Romagna, I have woven, together with Francesco Tedde, scenes from films in Teatro delle Albe’s archive, images shot by other directors, fragments of spectacle from Siamo asini o pedanti? (1989) to Pantani (2012).

Marco Martinelli
 

Opening: FilmMaker Festival, Milano, dicembre 5 2020

verso Paradiso
Opening: Giardini Pubblici Ravenna, giugno 25 2021

SIAMO TUTTI CANNIBALI, Sinfonia per l'abisso

From Moby Dick by H. Melville

 

with Roberto Magnani
live original music
Giacomo Piermatti (contrabbasso)
sound director Andrea Veneri
artistic residence Masque Teatro
production Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Forlì, Teatro Felix Guattari, agosto 26 2021

Mille anni o giù di lì

with Luigi Dadina and Francesco Giampaoli
voice Elena Bucci


ideation and texts Luigi Dadina and Davide Reviati
images and animations Davide Reviati
music Francesco Giampaoli
dramaturgical coordination Laura Gambi

direction Luigi Dadina
scenes Enrico Isola

lighting Luca Pagliano and Marcello Maggiori
technical coordination Fagio
video editing assistant Riccardo Dadina

props created by the technical team of Teatro delle Albe Alessandro Pippo Bonoli, Fabio Ceroni, Fagio, Enrico Isola, Marcello Maggiori, Dennis Masotti, Luca Pagliano

organisation Veronica Gennari
production Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro

Opening: Teatro Socjale di Piangipane, settembre 28 2021

fedeli d'Amore - Il film

PRESS REVIEW

PHOTO GALLERY

 

Opening: FilmMaker Festival, Milano, novembre 20 2021

Slot Machine
Opening: Piangipane, Teatro Socjale, novembre 30 2021

Pianura
Opening: Teatro Rasi, Ravenna, febbraio 18 2022

Uccelli, riscrittura da Aristofane
Opening: Teatro Grande, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, maggio 27 2022

Per troppa luce, primo studio
Opening: Ravenna, Teatro Rasi, ottobre 2 2023

Coro, lettura scenica
Opening: Genova, Teatro Akropolis, novembre 12 2023

Saturno, figlio d’Anarchia
Opening: Piangipane (Ravenna), gennaio 15 2024