L'infinito fratricidio - Incontro dedicato a "Incendi"
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L'infinito fratricidio (the endless fratricide) is the title of the event organised on the occasion of the staging of "Incendi" by Wajdi Mouawad, directed by Guido De Monticelli. Taking part will be Benedetta Tobagi, Annamaria Cascetta, Caterina Gozzi and Guido De Monticelli
Chiostro Nina Vinchi
L'infinito fratricidio (the endless fratricide) is the title of the event organised on the occasion of the staging of Incendi by Wajdi Mouawad, directed by Guido De Monticelli, at the Teatro Grassi from 20 to 25 October.
Taking part will be Benedetta Tobagi, writer,Annamaria Cascetta, professor of History of Theatre and Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Università Cattolica di Milano, Caterina Gozzi, who translated the play, and the director Guido De Monticelli.
A reflection on this pièce and on the staging, to involve in particular younger spectators "who need this veritable contemporary Odyssey like they need their daily bread and the clarity of poetry in order to understand themselves and to prepare for the future".
We were born at the end of the Vietnam War and we awoke with the Lebanese War – writes Wajdi Mouawad - and then with the war waged by Iran on Iraq. We were shocked by the Falklands War, and then felt the need to take the floor with the war in ex-Yugoslavia. The massacres in Ethiopia followed the Gulf War and preceded the devastation in Kosovo. We still understand nothing of the massacres in Algeria and we hear nothing of Tibet, and very little of Somalia. We entered adulthood with the beginning of the September 2000 Intifada and our daily lives were shattered with the events of 11 September 2001.
This is the temporal horizon of the generation of the 30-year-olds of 2000, the generation of Wajdi Mouawad, playwright and actor, who has re-illuminated the theatre with a new and ancient light, a light which is the essence of theatre. It is a light on that which in history is inexpressible, on the "monstrous heap of suffering" which is buried in each and every one of us like the countless dead who lie in "our" sea. Because that temporal horizon also extends to the South and East of this sea, just like the lingering of our customary removal, our blindness, our escape from "other" people's wars, even when they are on our doorstep.
The "tetralogy of memory" by Wajdi Mouawad, Il sangue delle promesse (the blood of promises), of which Incendi is the second part, embodies and transposes into ideas that search for truth in History which cannot be found if not through the history and research of one's own origins, one's own identity, of the very meaning of one's own life. In this way, the miracle of catharsis can take place, a miracle which is both poetical and existential.
L'infinito fratricidio (the endless fratricide) is the title of the event organised on the occasion of the staging of Incendi by Wajdi Mouawad, directed by Guido De Monticelli, at the Teatro Grassi from 20 to 25 October.
Taking part will be Benedetta Tobagi, writer,Annamaria Cascetta, professor of History of Theatre and Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Università Cattolica di Milano, Caterina Gozzi, who translated the play, and the director Guido De Monticelli.
A reflection on this pièce and on the staging, to involve in particular younger spectators "who need this veritable contemporary Odyssey like they need their daily bread and the clarity of poetry in order to understand themselves and to prepare for the future".
We were born at the end of the Vietnam War and we awoke with the Lebanese War – writes Wajdi Mouawad - and then with the war waged by Iran on Iraq. We were shocked by the Falklands War, and then felt the need to take the floor with the war in ex-Yugoslavia. The massacres in Ethiopia followed the Gulf War and preceded the devastation in Kosovo. We still understand nothing of the massacres in Algeria and we hear nothing of Tibet, and very little of Somalia. We entered adulthood with the beginning of the September 2000 Intifada and our daily lives were shattered with the events of 11 September 2001.
This is the temporal horizon of the generation of the 30-year-olds of 2000, the generation of Wajdi Mouawad, playwright and actor, who has re-illuminated the theatre with a new and ancient light, a light which is the essence of theatre. It is a light on that which in history is inexpressible, on the "monstrous heap of suffering" which is buried in each and every one of us like the countless dead who lie in "our" sea. Because that temporal horizon also extends to the South and East of this sea, just like the lingering of our customary removal, our blindness, our escape from "other" people's wars, even when they are on our doorstep.
The "tetralogy of memory" by Wajdi Mouawad, Il sangue delle promesse (the blood of promises), of which Incendi is the second part, embodies and transposes into ideas that search for truth in History which cannot be found if not through the history and research of one's own origins, one's own identity, of the very meaning of one's own life. In this way, the miracle of catharsis can take place, a miracle which is both poetical and existential.
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Chiostro Nina Vinchi
Thursday 22 October 2015, 5 pm
L'infinito fratricidio
An event to present the play Incendi
With the participation of
Benedetta Tobagi (Bristol University), writer
Annamaria Cascetta (Università Cattolica), professor of History of Theatre and Modern and Contemporary Performance
Caterina Gozzi, translator of Incendi
Guido De Monticelli, director
