Incendi
Concluded
©Daniela Zedda
Guido De Monticelli directs the masterpiece by Wajdi Mouawad, the Lebanese- born and Canadian-naturalized playwright, director and theatrical actor, author and cinematographer: Incendi is the story of the search for origins which blends the story of a population, a family and the development of individuality.
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Teatro Grassi
Libanese-born and naturalized Canadian, Wajdi Mouawad is the author of The blood of promises, a tetralogy (or quartet) dedicated to memory, of which this is the second piece. Twin brothers, Jeanne and Simon, two modern young men who live Canada, undertake a long journey towards the mystery of their origins following their mother’s death. It all begins with the reading of her will: a stubborn and enigmatic silence had accompanied her in the last years of her life. She held within herself the inexpressible. Now she has left a letter for each of the young men: one for the father they believed to be dead, the other for the brother whose existence they ignored.
The story takes on the style of an investigation, a mystery to be solved in a distant land, in the midst of civil war.
The pièce was adapted for the splendid film Incendies by Denis Villeneuve.
Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes
Libanese-born and naturalized Canadian, Wajdi Mouawad is the author of The blood of promises, a tetralogy (or quartet) dedicated to memory, of which this is the second piece. Twin brothers, Jeanne and Simon, two modern young men who live Canada, undertake a long journey towards the mystery of their origins following their mother’s death. It all begins with the reading of her will: a stubborn and enigmatic silence had accompanied her in the last years of her life. She held within herself the inexpressible. Now she has left a letter for each of the young men: one for the father they believed to be dead, the other for the brother whose existence they ignored.
The story takes on the style of an investigation, a mystery to be solved in a distant land, in the midst of civil war.
The pièce was adapted for the splendid film Incendies by Denis Villeneuve.
Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes
Credits
Piccolo Teatro Grassi
from 20 to 25 October 2015
Incendi
by Wajdi Mouawad
translated by Caterina Gozzi
directed by Guido De Monticelli
set by Fausto Dappiè, music by Alessandro Olla, video Francesco Deiana
costumes byStefania Grilli, lighting by Loïc François Hamelin
director assistant Rosalba Ziccheddu
with Maria Grazia Bodio, Lia Careddu, Agnese Fois, Corrado Giannetti, Paolo Meloni, Marta Proietti Orzella, Cesare Saliu, Giorgia Senesi, Marco Spiga, Maria Grazia Sughi, Leonardo Tomasi, Luigi Tontoranelli
a Sardegna Teatro production
English surtitles by Prescott Studio and Montclair State University, NJ, USA as part of the project "Translating voices across continents"
