Uccelli
Marco Martinelli presents an original Aristophanes: a furious, restless and emotional 18-year-old struggling with the drama of existence. On stage, over 70 teenagers from Bologna and Campania will voice – like Aristophanes – their everyday needs, questions and concerns. In Uccelli, the political issue is central. With a wild language and a percussive rhythm, ironic and visionary, the raging teenage Aristophanes narrates the desire to escape a city constantly at war that brings two Athenians to look for a possible model in the society of birds and establish a new polis, which will not manage to be different from the one they fled. Unlike the original comedy, where the revolution is extinguished in the worst of restorations, the crowd of young people from Pompei, Torre del Greco and Naples, joined in Bologna by teenagers of the Pilastro neighbourhood, uses the theatrical play to enact an overturning, allowing the desire for a different imagination to explode. This special version of Uccelli includes a workshop led by Marco Martinelli and Laura Redaelli, aimed at a group of teenagers from the Pilastro neighbourhood and carried out in collaboration with LAMINARIE / DOM la Cupola del Pilastro.
CALENDAR
Workshop
September 20 – October 18, 2022
Pilastro, Bologna
in collaboration with LAMINARIE / DOM la cupola del Pilastro
Performance
October 22, 2022 – h 19:00
Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna
CREDITS
Uccelli
rewriting from Aristophanes
dramaturgy and direction Marco Martinelli
music Ambrogio Sparagna
performed by
Ambrogio Sparagna, melodeon
Clara Graziano, melodeon, tammorra
Antonio O’ Lione Matrone, tammorra, bass drum
Giovanni Saviello, ciaramella, harmonic flute, double flute
with sixty teenagers from Pompei, Torre del Greco and Naples Istituto Liceale “E. Pascal” in Pompei, Istituto Superiore Tecnico-Tecnologico e Professionale “E. Pantaleo” in Torre del Greco, Dalla Parte dei Bambini, Foqus Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli, Arrevuoto – Teatro di Napoli and with the teenagers of Bologna, in collaboration with LAMINARIE / DOM la Cupola del Pilastro and the schools “Aurelio Saffi” and “Dino Romagnoli” of Istituto Comprensivo 11
set-up and lighting Vincent Longuemare costumes Roberta Mattera direction support Valeria Pollice and Gianni Vastarella assistant director Vincenzo Salzano lighting console Theo Longuemare travelogue Francesca Saturnino
production Pompeii Archaeological Site in collaboration with Ravenna Festival, Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro, Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Giffoni Film Festival, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale
our thanks to the teachers of the schools involved and to Rosa Miecchi for the choreographic movements
The work, presented at Teatro Arena del Sole, was preceded by a workshop held from September to October 2022, guided by Marco Martinelli and Laura Redaelli, in collaboration with choreographer Anna Albertarelli, addressed at a group of young people from the Pilastro neighbourhood.