How is our species seen through the eyes of the other inhabitants of the Earth? Is a future more sustainable than our present possible? With a comical and disenchanted outlook, a flock of mechanical crows – animated by Marta Cuscunà – examines the possibility of a new form of harmony between nature and progress.
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Teatro Studio Melato
The flock of crows from La fabbrica del Mondo, the Rai 3 television programme by Marco Paolini and Telmo Pievani, leaves the small screen for the theatre. Corvidae maintains the structure of the television format for which it was created; a series of three seasons of four episodes each, presented in succession to the audience and divided by a theme tune. Each narrative begins with contemporary reality, to then develop towards a shifting future suggested by the thoughts of the crows.
Through a system of joysticks and bicycle brake cables, the installation – designed by Paola Villani and Marco Rogante – allows the mechanical creatures to be actioned: in this show, which examines the future of our planet, robotics play no role. Humans drive the action on the stage.
Marta Cuscunà is an associated artist at the Piccolo Teatro. A festival was dedicated to her in 2022, composed of the shows È bello vivere liberi!, La semplicità ingannata and Il canto della caduta; the following year she presented Earthbound and the site-specific project Bucolica.
Duration: 65’ without intermission
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ReadThe flock of crows from La fabbrica del Mondo, the Rai 3 television programme by Marco Paolini and Telmo Pievani, leaves the small screen for the theatre. Corvidae maintains the structure of the television format for which it was created; a series of three seasons of four episodes each, presented in succession to the audience and divided by a theme tune. Each narrative begins with contemporary reality, to then develop towards a shifting future suggested by the thoughts of the crows.
Through a system of joysticks and bicycle brake cables, the installation – designed by Paola Villani and Marco Rogante – allows the mechanical creatures to be actioned: in this show, which examines the future of our planet, robotics play no role. Humans drive the action on the stage.
Marta Cuscunà is an associated artist at the Piccolo Teatro. A festival was dedicated to her in 2022, composed of the shows È bello vivere liberi!, La semplicità ingannata and Il canto della caduta; the following year she presented Earthbound and the site-specific project Bucolica.
Duration: 65’ without intermission
Learn more
Booklet
ReadMeetings and insights
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
Credits
Corvidae
Sguardi di specie
by and with Marta Cuscunà
animatronic design and creation Paola Villani
director’s assistant and technical director Marco Rogante
dramaturg Giacomo Raffaelli
video scenography Massimo Racozzi
graphic design Carlotta Amantini
costumes Chiara Venturini
live lighting, audio and video Marco Rogante
scientific consultant MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento
curated and organised by Laura Martinelli, Miriam Paschini
distribution Jean-François Mathieu
originally written for La Fabbrica del Mondo by Marco Paolini and Telmo Pievani, Rai 3 co-produced with Etnorama – Cultura per nuovi ecosistemi, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Tinaos
the crow installation is part of the set for Il canto della caduta, co-produced with Centrale Fies, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Teatro Stabile di Torino, São Luiz Teatro Municipal – Lisbon; technical sponsor igus® innovazione con i tecnopolimeri, Marta s.rl. industrial supplies
LIS interpreters Sara Pranovi, Elisa Verrando, Luca Falbo, Federica Zecchi in collaboration with Diana Anselmo of Al. Di. Qua. Artists
Tickets
Category of performance Co-production
Stalls full price € 40 | Discounted (under 26 and over 65) € 23
Balcony full price € 32 | Discounted (under 26 and over 65) € 20
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