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Why
HECUBA weaves together a theatre research for the production of a new play with the desire to approach new audiences to the languages of performing art.
The goal of this project is double:
– to create a new performance that is nourished by several experiences in different cities and countries
– to test the specific method of “neighbourhood activation” developped by the company in the Pilastro area in Bologna by extending it to different territories and countries.
Location
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Characteristics
Area
Liserna is a small mountain village situated on the Appennino Bolognese. Here there isn't a theater or any other cultural center and the people live in contact with the nature.
Audience
Hecuba involves three kind of targets:
- the local partner in each city - in this case the people who live in the village
- the partecipants to the workshop - in this case two young girls from Bologna
- the audience of the performance
How the audience/participants were reached or discovered
We worked for many days in the village to get in touch with the local people and ivolved them to the project. Two girls from Bologna taked part in the workshop and performance and they worked out of their context to explore a new possibility of relationship with the people and the setting.
How it was done
How
As the first step of Hecuba in Bologna, this action was realized as a theatre production. The girls worked with director Febo Del Zozzo and dramaturg Bruna Gambarelli for two weeks in order to prepare the performance. Febo Del Zozzo shaped the scenic machine to adapt it at the context (in this case the “stage” was the woodland) and Febo himself acts on stage as a stagehand.
Results
It was a great success to bring on stage two young people in touch with the local people from the village. The relatioship built between the girls and the community of people, who were not used to host a theater project, wes very strong.
How it went
Main lessons learned
Hecuba’s character and history are strong enough to involve people of different ages and backgrounds in all Mediterannean countries.
Inspiration
HECUBA project sums up Laminarie theatre company’s wish for “getting closer” to things. Professor Claudio Meldolesi once wrote “Laminarie expresses its vocation to contact – with matter, with objects, with words, with bodies, with the world inside and outside the theatre scene, with the places – and through interconnections between fairy tales and tragedy, playing and thinking, creative and fghting experiences, between city center and outskirts”. Laminarie theatre company always aims to get in touch with new and unforeseen audiences.
Greek mithology has been a strong inspiration for this project, together with the idea of deeply exploring the border between micro-local actions and international ones.
We decided to focus on Hecuba’s character because:
– the Greek tragedy is universal and it can be used as a mean of dialogue between diferent cultures people across the Mediterranea Sea.
– Hecuba is the story of a war told by the perspective of losers. It’s a symbol of a possible change of point of view in History’s narration.
Credits
A project by Laminarie
direction and scenography Febo Del Zozzo
with Sofia Del Zozzo e Agnese Del Zozzo
dramaturgy Bruna Gambarelli
organization Federica Rocchi
with the support of Bologna Municipality, Emilia Romagna Region, Ministry of Culture
Activity Timeline
2015
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Hecuba - Second step: Liserna (Bologna)
Since 2009, LAMINARIE has its headquarter at theatre DOM la cupola del Pilastro, situated in a suburb of Bologna. Here, Laminarie has been working in deep contact with citiziens and inhabitants of the area, creating a supporting community for its projects.
HECUBA weaves together a theatre research for the production of a new play with the desire to approach new audiences to the languages of per- forming art.
The goal of this project is double: – to create a new performance that is nourished by several experiences in different cities and countries – to test the specifc method of “neighbourhood activation” developed by the company in the Pilastro area in Bologna by extending it to diferent territories and countries.
The project last three years (2015-2017) and involves many Italian suburbs and small villages where there’s a lack of stable theatre structures, and several ports along the Mediterranean Sea.
In each place, the project will mark out specific characteristics in order to meet the local context. Laminarie looked for local partners interested in the project wiling to cover the role of benckmarks of the local context and can help us building the relationship with places and people.
Laminarie’s intent is to take root in suburbs and ports along the Mediterranean Sea, working with local people and actors such as associations, libraries, institutions, schools and so on. Activities may include: workshops, conversations and meetings, lectures, involvment of citizens and local actors, single or collective narrations, urban performances, shows, video and so on. At the same time, the production of Laminarie’s new performances is going to get richer and richer while each new step is added to the final dramaturgy.
The very first step of the project is in Bologna at Pilastro’s neighbourhood with the citizens of the area