Al nostro Festival<\/p>\n
I-SCOT International Suzuki Company of\u00a0 Toga<\/p>\n
quattro registi asiatici sono stati invitati a presentere<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Picnic on the battlefield\u201d by Fernando Arrabal.<\/p>\n
I loro nomi sono:<\/p>\n
Liu Hao (China),<\/p>\n
Lee Jeong Ha (Korea),<\/p>\n
Hung Hung (Taiwan),<\/p>\n
Okada Madoka (Japan)<\/p>\n
Mattia Sebastian<\/strong> (Italia)<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n THE ARCHITECT AND THE EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA<\/p>\n (L\u2019ARCHITETTO E L\u2019IMPERATORE D\u2019ASSIRIA)<\/p>\n by Fernando Arrabal<\/p>\n directed by Mattia Sebastian<\/p>\n performed in seven languages<\/p>\n I-SCOT International Suzuki Company of\u00a0 Toga with<\/p>\n Jingsheng Gu (China),<\/p>\n Daisuke Ueta (Japan) Shy Magasalin (Australia),<\/p>\n Chiara Nanti (Italy),<\/p>\n Gaia Rosberg (Denmark) ,<\/p>\n Kameron Steele (U.S.A.) ,<\/p>\n Yan Yan Zhou (China)<\/p>\n Carlotta Oggioni (Italy)<\/p>\n makeup Elena Tagliapietra<\/p>\n light design Makoto Niuwa<\/p>\n costumes Toshimi Mitsuda<\/p>\n sound Qiu Ye Jing<\/p>\n In this ingenious and poetic play, The Emperor of Assyria lands on a tropical isle that is deserted except for one man \u2013 the Architect. \u201cNothing is human if it is not confused and I do a realistic theater\u00a0 that rappresent this situation\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n Disorientation, therefore, seems to be the fundamental goal of the works of Arrabal. A \u00ab\u00a0panic theater\u00a0\u00bb, as Arrabal called:\u00a0 subversive, poetic, erotic ritual that unfolds between the sacred, the profane, tragedy, farce, obscenity, love and cruelty because \u00ab\u00a0there is too tragic for it to be taken seriously\u201d.<\/p>\n In this staging we face seven architects and seven emperors who mix, boosting even more the labyrinth built by Arrabal so that the ‘confusion’ is the most important focus. By identifying the word god with any theme (family, religious, political, sexual, consumerist, mythological, ect) we can safely say that we are \u201ctied\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0We will be the last men in chains. The inquisitions go to pieces. The terror and intolerance will cease for centuries \u2026 \u00a0\u00bb Mattia Sebastian<\/p>\n
\nproducted by SCOT
\nKyu Toga Sambo. Toga Mura Arts Park, Japan
\nRock Theatre \u2013 Open Air<\/p>\n
\nAgnia Leonova (Lithuania) ,<\/p>\n
\nThe Emperor teaches the Architect his language and regales him with stories of his formar life and language \u2013 his beautiful fiancee, his literary works, his\u00a0 fourteen secretaries, his narcissism empire. The Architect receives the information and knowledge the Emperors offers, and learn to be a \u201ccivilized\u201d man.\u00a0 The fantasies they\u00a0 act out together expose the quality of such civilization. The Emperor decides that he must stan trial for his guilty past, and the Architect acts as judge.
\nWhen the Emperor is inevitably condemned to death, his last request is that he be eaten after execution.<\/p>\n
\nWhich needs a theater of situation, circular, without end, without plot, in which the characters are polymorphic; mingle with one another, disguise them self, change sex, role.\u00a0 Cannibalize their identity to neutralize its self and as a paradox they want to be up to the other one. With no end game: the end of this work concerns the beginning.<\/p>\n
\nThe human being is lost in an existence that does not understand, linked to a moral impenetrable and incomprehensible to him. This disconnection with nature generates the \u00ab\u00a0chaos\u00a0\u00bb within us, and it spreads all over the world.<\/p>\n
\nWe are thus faced with a dream, the dream of Arrabal.<\/p>\n