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TEATRO STUDIO - FEB.>MAG. 2019

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Cupid and Psyche
a tale for two spectators

with Diana Ferrantini, Alessio Papa, Fiorella Tommasini and Chiara Elisa Rossini
music and direction Massimo Munaro

For many years now, our group has undertaken an original theatrical research, characterized by the dramatic and sensorial involvement of the spectators. On the one hand, this investigation is a reflection on the typical status of theatricality, whose origin of sacral event, where stands its necessity, re-places at the centre the possible redefinition of the actors-spectators’ relationship; on the other hand, this investigation searches into the profound archetypal movements that are inevitably created by mythical figures. Our life always seems to follow mythical figures. We act, see, think, feel only as is allowed by the primary models constituted in the imaginal world: our psychological life is mimetic of the myths.
 From this point of view, each theatrical work made by Teatro del Lemming proposes for actors and spectators the possibility of a deep and radical encounter with some, exemplary, mythical figures. 
Sensory involvement is the main road of this research. The sense/the senses of the body. In this type of experimentation, the body isn't a prothesis of the mind, but is fullness, is something naked that permits the nakedness of the aim and the truth of the encounter with other aims and other bodies. Here theatre requires its role as the place of the encounter, of relationship, requires is necessity of being an event, an experience that before being cognitive is properly existential and organic.
The work on CUPID AND PSYCHE continues on the path opened by our previous works dedicated to the figures of EDIPUS and DIONYSUS and represents an ideal continuation. For example, in DIONYSUS the relationship between actors and spectators became mimetic of those relationships (always more frequent in nowadays society) that are established under the sign of opposition and non-recognition.
 In CUPID AND PSYCHE the suggested movement goes exactly in the opposite direction. Here the seduction is acted out for love and finally leads to a conjunction: conjunction of soul and body, of one ego with the other, of actor and spectator. In this way the duality leads to sharing, to the fusion with the other.
Besides, the Myth tells us that this union is anything but easy. The vicissitudes of Psyche are terrible and sometimes they seem to be able to completely devastate her: but they are just the necessary path to her final union with Eros. The world appears rather than like a vain valley of tears, like the “valley of soul making” (Keats). At the end of their path, that sometimes is frightening and painful, the two spectators, together with the actors, will meet again. Symbolically, this union is composed by a sort of multiplication of levels: meeting of the spectator with himself, with the actor, with the other spectator, with the space and the world that hosts them. Since, to quote Jung, "the soul can not exist without its other part, which is always in a YOU".

PRESS REVIEW exctracts

WS TEMPEST

with Chiara Elisa Rossini, Diana Ferrantini, Alessio Papa, Boris Ventura, Marina Carluccio, Katia Raguso, Alessandro Sanmartin
scenic elements Luigi Troncon
music and direction Massimo Munaro

a production Teatro del Lemming 2016

At the theater actor and spectator
 try and try again the date with the catastrophe: the death.
They get used to it, they practice to think it.
We're at theater, it's all fake. We're at theater, it's all true.

With this work we complete our Shakespearean series, called the Water Trilogy, started with Hamlet and continued with Juliet and Romeo - letters from the liquid world. These works propose a reflection on the eternally present conflict between individual and power. In the Shakespearean The tempest, Prospero, unjustly dispossessed and forced into exile, realizes his revenge that does not lead to violence but, for ones, to reconciliation and forgiveness. It seems that the perpetuation of violence finds an end. These performances are not a faithful reproduction of the texts and of shakespearian words, from which we think theatre should free itself, but they are faithful to the archetypal nuclei that reverberate from them in a still scary manner.

In particular we have seen in The Tempest the story of a shipwreck that takes place, first of all, in the protagonist’s mind. It is as if Shakespeare himself, in the figure of Prospero, from the bottom of the sea, recalls the infinite characters of his works: Hamlet, Juliet, Macbeth, Lear, Richard, Brutus come back to visit him. These figures represent, at the same time, also parts of a composite identity that is the one of the poet, that is the one of everyone. The shipwreck in the memory of Prospero / WS is also a shipwreck in our mind.

The performances of this trilogy are also metatheatrical reflections. They develop three possible researches on the meaning and the manner of doing theatre nowadays. What is theatre useful for? Is it a simple entertainment space or can it still be an effective tool to trap the king's conscience? These works invite to take part, to take sides. Because theatre can still represent a radical experience, founds itself, as it happens in WS Tempest, on a new notion of space, using all the possible plans and all the degrees of perspective. Moreover, theatre can think about the spectator as a constitutive part of his dramaturgy: here the spectators, as already in Shakespeare, are co-authors of the drama. It’s so for their living and active presence, because their duty is to weave the logos through the thread of their experience.

Press review extracts

TEATRO STUDIO - ROVIGO
febbraio / maggio 2019

Il teatro è il luogo in cui scopriamo che l'estraneo,
lo straniero, è sempre un nostro fratello

mercoledì 6 FEB. 2019, ore 21.00
KOREJA (LECCE)
GUL uno sparo nel buio


giovedì 14 FEB. 2019, ore 21.00
TEATRO DEL LEMMING
GIULIETTA E ROMEO lettere dal mondo liquido

venerdì 15 MAR. 2019, ore 21.00
VASCO MIRANDOLA, CAMILLA FERRARI, GIULIA FACCO
ERA L'INIZIO DI UNA SEDIA concerto poetico sui testi di Mark Strand

venerdì 22 MAR. 2019, ore 21.00
CENTRO TEATRALE UMBRO (GUBBIO)
AMLETO. L'ARCHIVIO DELLE ANIME

5 - 6 - 7 APR. 2019 | prenotazione obbligatoria
TEATRO DEL LEMMING
METAMORFOSI terzo studio
PRENOTAZIONE OBBLIGATORIA - lo spettacolo è riservato a 7 SPETTATORI a replica

8 - 13 APR. > RESIDENZA ARTISTICA
domenica 14 APR. 2019, ore 21.00
WELCOME PROJECT (IT/DE)
ANGST VOR DER ANGST terzo studio

sabato 27 APR. 2019, ore 21.00
TEATRO INVITO (LECCO)
BARTLEBY

domenica 12 MAG. 2019, ore 17.00 e 18.00 | prenotazione obbligatoria
TEATRO DEL LEMMING
L'ODISSEA DEI BAMBINI viaggio nel teatro per venti bambini di tutte le età
PRENOTAZIONE OBBLIGATORIA - lo spettacolo è riservato a 20 SPETTATORI di tutte le età, a replica

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