Frontiers are places of division and conflict, places of men facing each other, the ones watching over the others. The frontier floods towards the front, in the construction of an enemy otherness, taking the difference as distance and danger. The drift of frontier to the front can become dramatically prominent: walls, trenches, barbed wire, buffer zones, electrified fencings, watch towers, roadblocks, checkpoints are scars that disfigure a land, that separate populations, that produce an insurmountable, impassable conflict.
The possibility of a multicultural, multi-language theatre, that comes out of the encounter of different languages and cultures, stands against frontiers and separation, as principles of conflict. An itinerant theatre that deals with the possibility of dialogue through concrete artistic practices, in order to remove frontiers to dialogue, and create a fluid and crossable cultural space.
The project, promoted by Astragàli Teatro, aims to improve mutual knowledge, recognition, respect of cultures as a way to overpass frontiers and separations. To do that collaborations between Italian, Palestinian, Jordanian, Greek, Cypriot, French, English artists and cultural operators, mobility and circulation of cultural products and joint productions will be promoted. Freedom of movement and of expression for artists living under occupation is a main challenge to break a seemingly endless cycle of violence and oppression. It is thus important to implement artistic actions between Palestine, Jordan, Italy and other countries, involving artists, cultural operators, civil society, youth.
Three international artistic residencies will be realised:
residency in Amman (Jordan) in March 2010
residency in Sebastiya, Nasfjibil and Ramallah (Palestine) in April 2010
final residency in Lecce (Italy) in July 2010
In each residency several activities (workshops, performances, meetings) will be carried out and artists will work at the creation of a joint performance.
within the framework of the European Union Culture Programme 2007-2013
Astragali teatro, lecce
via G. Candido, 23
On 16 and 17 January, Astràgali Teatro presents at its venue, the international performance Lysistrata - first study on the obscenity of the power.
This new international production directed by Fabio Tolledi is inspired to the homonymous comedy by Aristophanes. For Lysistrata, initial path of investigation of the connection between power, obscenity and laughter, Fabio Tolledi chooses to deal with the register of comedy, through a complete rewriting of the text in collaboration with Benedetta Zaccarello, philosopher and researcher at the CNRF of Paris.
Lysistrata is, literary, the one who loosens the armies; the one who convinces all Greek women to occupy the Akropolis, giving the start to the first strike in history: the strike of sex.
Lysistrata's choice, for Astràgali, is connected to the possibility to wonder about the pre-comic.
It is indeed female the matrix which the birth of comic is attributed to, in that far origin where tragedy and comedy were an indistinct nebula of rituals and dances.
Lysistrata, first study on the obscenity of power is a feast, a singing, dancing image, whipping attack to the political power.
Lysistrata is meant as a re-appropriation of the rhythm of comic, of the carnality of human experience, in its long distance from ‘the mass distraction weapons’ of television, and in its being continuous desecration. It is a female, uterine plot which renews the urgency of welcoming the other as well as the multiplicity of our existences. Furthermore, it is the unmasking of the uselessness of violence and of military reason, it is a laughter that strips power.
ENTRANCE 5 EUROS – RESERVATION IS MANDATORY
dates
17 January 2010 Astragali Teatro, Lecce
16 January 2010 Astragali Teatro, Lecce
27 October 2009 Teatro Elio, Calimera
27 August 2009 Astragali Teatro, Lecce
direction by Fabio Tolledi
dramaturgy by Benedetta Zaccarello e Fabio Tolledi
with Lenia Gadaleta, Roberta Quarta, Ivano Gorgoni, Serena Stifani, Fatima Sai, Francis Léonési, Antonio Palumbo, Iula Marzulli, Efthimios Shiafkalis, Eleonice Mastria, Gaetano Fidanza, Manuela Mastria
Lecce
via G. Candido, 23
From 1 to 5 December Il corpo minimo (The Minimal body), the international workshop of introduction to theatrical techniques, directed by Fabio Tolledi, will be held.
The workshop foresees a path aimed to the introduction and exploration of the theatrical techniques that allow the actor's body to be a living body, able to elaborate expressive abilities.
Dates
20- 24 October
10-14 November
11-17 December
h 05:00-08:00 pm
conduced by Fabio Tolledi
Astragali Teatro presenta il suo nuovo progetto: roads and desire - un teatro in viaggio in Palestina.
inizio ore 18.30