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
MOTHER is the story of a son and his mother, who lives on a farm: she has fallen into a well. Was she distracted? Is she losing her mind? Did she do it on purpose? This is not a dialogue, it is a diptych made up of two monologues. He scolds her then goes to look for tools; winches and muskets, iron tubes and pulleys, all the “technology” required to pull her out. From deep inside herself, and from inside a well that’s as deep as infinity, she confesses. She’s not afraid, and she doesn’t feel distressed. In this desolate landscape, what emerges is the allegory of an increasingly poisoned Mother Earth, the nightmare created by a “technology” that, instead of discretely helping humanity, imposes itself arrogantly in all its potential for destruction, capable of ruining age-old balances. In the text, which interweaves Italian and Romagna dialect, these two figures are poised between the harsh reality of our times and the symbols of a threatening and indecipherable future. They seem like emblems of an oriental fairy tale.
Three artists, each with a unique style, came together to create MOTHER: Ermanna Montanari, actress and writer, Stefano Ricci, painter and illustrator, and Daniele Roccato, composer and double bass soloist. Based on a dramaturgy written for them by Marco Martinelli, they move onstage, mingling Ricci’s dreamlike live illustrations with Montanari’s magmatic vocal sonorities, which give voice to both the Son and the Mother, and the sweet and heartrending sounds of Roccato’s double bass.
Riemergendo dal fondo della scrittura e della scena. Madre di Ermanna Montanari, Stefano Ricci e Daniele Roccato, di Marco Sciotto, in Arabeschi n. 17, gennaio-giugno 2021
