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Robert Wilson
Oedipus
ROBERT WILSON OEDIPUS
based on the classical text by Sophocles(language ita/eng/greek/latin)
commissioned and co-produced by CONVERSAZIONI / TEATRO OLIMPICO di VICENZA
TEATRO STABILE di NAPOLI / TEATRO GRANDE di POMPEI
produced by: CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS
Exclusive site specific performances at:TEATRO GRANDE di POMPEI: 5, 6 and 7 July, 2018
TEATRO OLIMPICO di VICENZA: 4, 5, 6 e 7 October, 2018
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1. CREATIVE TEAM
Concept, Set and Light Design, Robert Wilson (Usa)stage direction:
Co-Director: Ann-Christin Rommen (Germany)
Original Music: Kinan Azmeh (Siria/Usa) Dickie Landry (Usa)
Costume Design: Carlos Soto (Usa)
Co-set Designer: Annick Lavallée-Benny (Canada)
Co-light Designer: Solomon Weisbard (Usa)
Light Supervisor: Marcello Lumaca (Italy)
Dramaturgy: Konrad Kuhn (Germany)
Sound Designer: Dario Felli (Italy)
Technical Director: Paolo Casati (Italy)
Production Delegate: Virginia Forlani (Italy)
Production Coordination: Maddalena Papagni (Italy)
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2. INTRODUCTION
Oedipus da Sofocle è il nuovo spettacolo che Robert Wilson ha ideato e progettato su commissione di “Conversazioni”, il Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza che si svolge ogni autunno fin dal 1934. La messinscena della tragedia di Sofocle inaugurò nel 1585 il celebre capolavoro di Andrea Palladio, per il quale Vincenzo Scamozzi realizzò le scenografie che si possono ammirare tuttora intatte dopo oltre quattro secoli. Di quella storica rappresentazione ci rimangono anche le musiche di Andrea Gabrieli e un dipinto murale monocromo che ci fa immaginare il fasto di quello spettacolo inaugurale.
A questo nuovo progetto teatrale Robert Wilson ha già dedicato tre workshop nel corso degli ultimi due anni, a Vicenza e al Watermill Center di Long Island, il laboratorio creativo dove ogni estate egli raduna giovani artisti e designers di tutto il mondo. Al centro dello spettacolo vi sarà il celebre testo di Sofocle nella classica traduzione italiana in versi di Ettore Romagnoli, che si intreccerà con citazioni in altre traduzioni e alter lingue, antiche e contemporanee, per alludere ad un mito che va oltre il tempo e ogni confine geografico e culturale.
Drammaturgicamente strutturato come il racconto di un omerico aedo, il progetto della messa in scena - come sempre nei lavori del grande artista e regista americano - abbatte ogni confine tra teatro, danza, musica ed arte figurativa, includendo scene che non sono presenti nella tragedia di Sofocle, come Pizia che annuncia l’oracolo di Delfi e il matrimonio di Edipo e Giocasta.
Accanto ad un organico di attori e danzatori internazionali affiancati dalla figura epica di Mariano Rigillo, la musica sarà una componente centrale dello spettacolo, affidata alla presenza in scena di Dickie Landry, sassofonista di New Orleans, che dialoga con le sonorità magiche del clarinettista siriano Kinan Azmeh.
Ideato come progetto site specific per il Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza - lo spazio che Palladio progettò ispirandosi proprio al modello di un antico teatro romano - Oedipus avrà il suo debutto al Teatro Grande di Pompei, luogo storico quanto mai emblematico così come è giunto a noi dopo l’eruzione del 79. Oedipus di Robert Wilson si annuncia quindi come un grande evento teatrale che - non più soltanto nel pensiero palladiano, ma nella pratica creativa di un grande regista - unirà due spazi teatrali unici al mondo.
Dopo i due eventi di Pompei e Vicenza nel 2018, lo spettacolo avrà una sua nuova versione per palcoscenico all’italiana che debutterà al Teatro Mercadante di Napoli nel gennaio 2019.
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3. TIMELINE
- July, 2017
- August 10th to 19th, 2017
- April 3rd to 25th, 2018
- June 24th to July 4th, 2018
- July 5th, 2018
- July 6th and 7th 2018
- September 22nd to October 3rd, 2018
- October 4th, 2018
- October 5th, 2018
- October 6th, 7th, 2018
- January 9th to 20th, 2019
tour to follow
Creative Workshop AWatermill Center, New York
Creative Workshop BWatermill Center, New York
Stage A1Teatro Mercadante, Napoli Italy
Stage A2Centrale Fies, Dro
Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Italy
Stage B1 - rehearsalsTeatro Antico di Pompei, Italy
OpeningTeatro Grande di Pompei, Italy
PerformancesTeatro Grande di Pompei, Italy
Stage B2 Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Italy
OpeningTeatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Italy
PerformancesTeatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Italy
PerformancesTeatro Mercadante, Naples Italy
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4. CAST
6 ACTORS | PERFORMERS1 LIVE SAX PLAYER7 YOUNG PERFORMERS TO CAST LOCALLY
Michalis Theophanous was born in 1985 in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2009 he graduated from the Hellenic National School of Dance. He has participated in various avant-garde and established performance groups as well as in international dance productions.He play as the main role in Adam’s Passion, staged by Robert Wilson.
Alexis FousekisGreeceDancer
Mariano Rigillo was born on September 12, 1939 in Naples (Italy) and then he moved to Rome where he studied at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico.He is known for his work on Il Postino (1994), To Rome with Love (2012) and Nebbie e delitti (2005).
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Kayije Kagamewas born in Rwanda and then moved to France, where she studied drama at Conservatoire de musique de Genève.In 2014 she acted the role of Vertu in Les Nègres production in Jean Genet’s Les Nègres staged by Robert Wilson.
Meg HarperNew York Performer
Casilda Madrazowas born 1980 in Mexico City. She began her career as flamenco dancer and thanks to her love for Arts she started to collaborate with many musicians, artists and poets.During summer 2015 -2016 she took part of the Robert Wilson’s workshop at Watermill Center in NYC.
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5A. MUSIC COMPOSER
KINAN AZMEH
Has appeared worldwide as a soloist, composer and improviser. Kinan was the first Arab to win the premier prize at the 1997 Nicolai Rubinstein International Competition, Moscow. A graduate of New York’s Juilliard school as a student of Charles Neidich, and of both the Damascus High institute of Music where he studied with Shukry Sahwki, Nicolay Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof, and Damascus University’s School of Electrical Engineering. Kinan earned his doctorate degree in music from the City University of New York in 2013.His compositions include several works for solo, orchestra, and chamber music; film, live illustration, and electronics. He serves as artistic director of the Damascus Festival Chamber Music Ensemble, with whom he released an album of new contemporary Syrian chamber music written especially for the ensemble by various composers and is also a frequent guest faculty at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and is on the advisory board of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra. He is also a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.
http://kinanazmeh.com
Kinan Azmeh at Watermill Center, NY | photo: Lovis Ostenrik
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5B. MUSIC COMPOSER & LIVE PERFORMANCE
DICKIE LANDRY
Born in Cecilia, Louisiana in 1938, Dickie Landry began his musical training at the age of six when he joined the St. Joseph Catholic Church Choir singing Gregorian Chant. Landry picked up the saxophone at age ten and continued the journey that would take him all around the globe. Landry’s career was marked by many notable collaborations with other composers, artists and choreographers including Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson and many others.
Moving from white R&B in the American South to improvised and contemporary minimal / process music in New York during the 1970s, Landry was known to be hanging around with the primary figures in New York’s post-minimal and concept art scene. Since then he has given concerts in the USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Cuba, Haiti, Japan, South America, Taiwan and India. Landry later returned to his Louisiana homeland and splits his time between painting and reinvestigating his practice.
http://www.dickielandry.com
Dicky Landry solo concert at the Guggenheim in New York
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6A. DRAMATURGY
PROLOGUE (8 minutes) - Oedipus alone, slow walk upstage- He walks towards the light- His back faces the audience
Slow movement
PART I (20 minutes) - Oracle to Jocasta:
abandoning child, adoption of the child by the king of Corinth- Oracle to adult Oedipus:
you will kill your father, marry your mother- Oedipus leaves to avoid the oracle
Oedipus walks up and downstage.
II PARTE (18 minutes) - Killing of a stranger on a crossroads.
It is his father Laios- Solving the Sphinx riddle
Oedipus walks in diagonals
III PARTE (8 minutes)- Maybe wedding ceremony for Jocasta and Oedipus. ? Dance scene
IV PARTE (20 minutes) - Pest in Thebes- Creon receives the oracle, that the incest between Jocasta and Oedipus is thereason. He doesn’t want to tell Oedipus- Tiresias, the old blind seer, finally tells the truth and walks away with a boyOedipus walks following arc patterns.
V PARTE (18 minutes) - Suicide of Jocasta, hanging herself- Blinding of Oedipus, leaving town in self-proclaimed exile- In the end, one person stays sitting alone and lonely
Oedipus crawling
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6B. DRAMATURGY
RW sketches and notes
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RW sketches and notes
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RW sketches and notes
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Workshop at Watermill Center, NY | photo: Lovis Ostenrik
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PART 0. LIGHT
PART I. WOOD
roots, plexiglass, cut raw lumber, tree branches, 1 chair, wooden door (fertility symbol), wood planks, bamboo sticks & ladders.
PART II. METAL
sheet metal, chrome, brushed aluminum, pipes, rusty pipe, metal mesh
textiles, gauze, silk,
pineapple weave, horsehair
car-lights
PART III. GREEN
fresh green leaves branches
example: castor beans (green leaves + red seeds)
PART IV. CHAIRS
the space is slowly filled with folding chairs
approximately 150 units
PARTE V. DARKNESS AND FOG
ripped tar paper (or other similar materials)
fog and mist
lights on stands
7A. MATERIALS
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7B. MATERIALS
RW sketches and notes
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RW sketches and notes
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Workshop at Watermill Center, NY | photo: Lovis Ostenrik
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Workshop at Watermill Center, NY | photo: Lovis Ostenrik
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Workshop at Watermill Center, NY | photo: Lovis Ostenrik
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8. STAGE A1 - TEATRO MERCADANTE, NAPOLI photos from rehearsals without costumes
Stage A, Teatro Mercadante - Napoli | photo: Luciano Romano
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Stage A, Teatro Mercadante - Napoli | photo: Luciano Romano
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Stage A, Teatro Mercadante - Napoli | photo: Luciano Romano
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PRODUCERFranco Laera
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Virginia Forlani
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Maddalena Papagni
Andrea VillaElisa Crespi
Akiko Sugiyama
