Friday 11 September 2020

Jan Fabre at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2020

 

photo Wonge Bergmann


NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALIA 2020

International Section:

Jan Fabre in the spotlight with his “Resurrexit Cassandra”

 

12th -13th September at Teatro Bellini 9 pm

Duration: 1h+20min

German performance with Italian subtitles

(with the support of the Goethe-Institut di Napoli)

 

A theatre performance similar to a “concert for images”, as it has been called by its director Jan Fabre, with a female character at the center of everything. Cassandra, the unheard prophetess, is now on the stage celebrating her resurrection. All this and much more you will find in “Resurrexit Cassandra”, the solo played by Stella Höttler, goddess and soothsayer at the same time, that will be staged on the 12th and the 13th at the Teatro Bellini, in the heart of Naples. Based on a text written by Ruggero Cappuccio, the performance directed by Belgian artist is broken down into five scenes, one for each element of nature. Thanks to these elements, which could be also regarded as hexoteric symbols in our lives, the ancient myth will be revisited in a modern way by German actress who is going to embody through words and emotions a contemporary Cassandra. She will try to speak with men once more, warning them of a disaster which they face, but now as then her words fall into empty space. It seems that nobody listens nor finds any recognition of what is happening. Not even a shred of faith remains. While everything is going frenetically and mankind is indulging in self-deception, two small turtles show us the true path for salvation which seems still reachable. Just believing it.

 

 photo Wonge Bergmann



 

Credits

 

Concept, direction JAN FABRE
Text 
RUGGERO CAPPUCCIO
Original music 
ARTHUR LAVANDIER
Performer 
STELLA HÖTTLER

Male voice GUSTAV KOENIGS
Film 
SCHANDE ÜBERS GANZE ERDENREICH! (2018), JAN FABRE/ANGELOS (ANTWERP, BE) 

Additional music RAYMONDA, ACT III VARIATION IVALEXANDER GLAZUNOV; MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA & VICTOR FEDOTOVENTA OMRIEL GAMAL, WEL GAMMAL & HOSSAM RAMZY (SONGS DO MÉDIO ORIENTE)ZORZALCHANCHA VIA CIRCUITOUS & WENCESLADA (RODANTE)SHORT BELLY DANCE DRUM SOLORAQUY & THE CAVEMEN (NAKED, 12 MIDDLE EASTERN DRUM SOLOS)
Dramaturgy 
MARK GEURDEN
Light design 
JAN FABRE, WOUT JANSSENS
Costumes 
JAN FABRE, KASIA MIELCZAREK
Assistant to the director
& rehearsal coach LORE BORREMANS
Technicians 
WOUT JANSSENS, GEERT VAN DER AUWERA
Translation Italian-German
VERENA SCHMEISER
Translation Italian-English 
CLAIRE JENKINS
Production 
TROUBLEYN/JAN FABRE (ANTWERP, BE)
in coproduction with 
FONDAZIONE CAMPANIA DEI FESTIVAL – NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALIA (NAPOLI, IT), TANDEM SCÈNE NATIONALE (ARRAS-DOUAI, FR), TOVSTONOGOV BOLSHOI DRAMA THEATRE (SAN PIETROBURGO, RU), CHARLEROI DANSE, CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE DE WALLONIE-BRUXELLES (BE)

 


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