Monday, June 24, 2024

Pompeii Theatrum Mundi: Giovedì debutta in prima nazionale lo spettacolo “con attori e animali” DE RERUM NATURA [THERE IS NO PLANET B]


Al Teatro Grande del sito Archeologico di Pompei, nell'ambito della settima edizione della rassegna estiva del Teatro di Napoli, Pompeii Theatrum Mundi, giovedì 27, venerdì 28 e sabato 29 giugno ore 21.00, debutta in prima nazionale lo spettacolo “con attori e animali” DE RERUM NATURA [THERE IS NO PLANET B], liberamente ispirato al De Rerum Natura di Tito Lucrezio Caro.


Ideazione, adattamento e regia Davide Iodice.
drammaturgia Fabio Pisano.
Prodotto da Teatro Nazionale - Teatro di Napoli.

Il regista Davide Iodice e il giovane drammaturgo Fabio Pisano tornano a collaborare insieme dopo il successo di Hospes- Itis nella scorsa Stagione.


«Quello del De Rerum è un tema coltivato già dai tempi dell’Accademia.» - scrive nelle note il regista Davide Iodice - che pertanto sceglie di approfondire il tema della Natura mostrando la sua rivincita contrapposta al terrore di vuoto e di apocalisse che ci ha attanagliato in questi anni pandemici.

Impossibile non tracciare, all'interno di questo lavoro teatrale la vicenda di Greta Tumberg, riferimento anche nel lavoro sulla drammaturgia a cura di Fabio Pisano. Spiega infatti il regista: «La vicenda di Greta, la sua emblematicità, non poteva non intersecare la mia storia personale e la mia progettualità pedagogica che da anni privilegia la disabilità intellettiva indagandone le possibilità. L’immagine portante consegnata a Fabio Pisano per il suo ordito di parole è stata dunque quella del celebre discorso pronunciato all’Onu da Greta Thunberg sull’emergenza climatica.»

Alla figura di Greta Thunberg, svela il regista si affiancano poi gli altri protagonisti dell'opera: «A Greta hanno fatto seguito altre figure nelle cui vicende ho sentito riverberare i temi e le invettive del poeta latino: la giovane attivista italiana che con la sua sincera naivtè e il suo sincero terrore del futuro manda in lacrime i discorsi di un ministro dello Stato; Julia ‘butterfly’ Hill e la sua resistenza anticapitalistica al cinismo distruttivo delle majors, sospesa tra i rami di una sequoia; le anziane e accudenti donne dell’isola di Lesbo e la loro pietas per dei figli di altre madri, di altri paesi; i minatori d’oro africani e i braccianti delle nostre terre infette che ‘sudano sangue’ sfruttati dagli speculatori e muoiono insieme a quelle terre.

Sin da subito in questo materiale così eterogeneo, ha fatto capolino un ‘daemon’, uno spirito guida, il correlativo simbolico di questo sentimento di perdita credo, di natura ferita e in dissolvimento, ha fatto capolino un orso polare, uno di quegli orsi polari che alla fine di questo secolo secondo le stime non esisteranno più.»

Nelle note al testo, l'autore, Fabio Pisano spiega l'elemento dal quale ha sviluppato l'intera drammaturgia dell'opera, il perché dell'uso del dialogo e quale è il collante dei sei episodi caratterizzanti la trama drammaturgica. In ultimo, l'autore ci tiene a sottolineare l'operazione di adattamento fatta dal regista, in virtù della messa in scena.

«De Rerum Natura – There is no planet B è un testo che racconta in sei episodi il rapporto tra uomo e natura nel nostro contemporaneo; il titolo è ispirato all' opera didascalica in versi del poeta latino Lucrezio; opera che ha rappresentato il punto di partenza intorno cui sviluppare la drammaturgia; sei “libri”, un prologo, un interludio e un epilogo, in cui prevale la forma dialogica, perché è proprio attraverso il dialogo, attraverso la forza rivelatrice del dialogo che ho provato a restituire il Teatro in tutta la sua potenza, in tutta la sua affascinante capacità di turbamento. A raccordare tra loro gli episodi, è la voce della Natura, che, mediante l' uso dei versi originali dell' opera di Lucrezio, si rivela quale forza primordiale e motrice di tutte le cose. La drammaturgia è stata poi adattata dal regista, Davide Iodice, che ha composto una partitura per la messa in scena, rielaborando alcune parti del testo e eliminandone altre».

Teatro Grande Parco Archeologico di Pompei
27 | 28 | 29 giugno ore 21.00
DE RERUM NATURA
[There is no planet B]
liberamente ispirato al De Rerum Natura di Tito Lucrezio Caro
ideazione, adattamento e regia Davide Iodice
drammaturgia Fabio Pisano

con (in ordine di apparizione)
Aida Talliente (La Natura/Prima Donna di Lesbo/Mamma Orsa), Ilaria Scarano
(Seconda donna di Lesbo/Emilia), Carolina Cametti (Terza donna di Lesbo/La
donna sull’albero), MariaTeresa Battista (Venere), Greta Esposito (Ragazza),
Sergio Del Prete (Ministro/Pacific Lumber), Wael Habib (Bracciante/altre figure),
Giovanni Trono (Padrone/altre figure), Marco Palumbo (Striato, altre figure),
Emilio Vacca (Protele, altre figure)

e con la partecipazione straordinaria di ORCHESTRÌA:
Marco Fuccio, Giancarla Oliva, Chiara Alina Di Sarno, Giuseppina Oliva,
Tommaso Renzuto Iodice, Simone Rijavec, Laura Errico, Alessandro La
Rocca, Paola Gargiulo, Antonella Esposito, Massimo Renzetti, Guglielmo
Gargarella, Dmitry Medici, Nicolas Sacrez, Lucrezia Pirani, Melina
Russo, Giulio Sica, Francesco Cicatiello, Alina Shost, Giulia
Caporrino, Daniele Rensi, Ilaria Giorgi, Giulia Albero, Giorgio Albero

[il progetto speciale di musica inclusiva dell’associazione FORGAT ODV all’interno
della Scuola Elementare del Teatro – Conservatorio Popolare per le arti della
scena, a cura di Francesco Paolo Manna, Antonio Frajoli, Eleonora Ricciardi]

scene maschere e pupazzi Tiziano Fario
costumi Daniela Salernitano
luci Loic Francois Hamelin
musiche originali Lino Cannavacciuolo
assistente alla regia Carlotta Campobasso
una produzione Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale

Lo spettacolo è dedicato alla memoria della dott.ssa Annamaria Ciarallo, botanica.
Durata 1h e 40’ circa
Info: www. teatrodinapoli.it

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Interview with Jonathan Sidgwick about the Solo Show “A Hunger Artist” - June 23rd, 25th, 26th, 27h at The Etcetera Theatre in North London

 

 

1) Hi Jon, please tell us more, where are you from? And how did you get passionate about acting?

I’m originally from North Yorkshire, England and grew up there before leaving home to study French & German at Keele University in the Midlands. After Uni I was lucky enough to go backpacking around the world for 2 years, and then spend 4 years in Tokyo teaching English.

I was excited about acting from a young age and, then forgot about it until age 24 when I started studying Meisner Technique, a branch of The Method, in Japan. Once I came back to the UK, I studied for a year at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Like most people, I guess, I got interested from watching great TV and movies with fantastic actors like Gary Oldman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Willem Dafoe and others. Then, when you start looking for work you realise that Stage acting is just as exciting and a great place to learn and practice your craft and you start paying attention to other actors like Steven Berkoff, Ian McKellen, Mark Rylance etc

2) Where did you graduate from? And what was your life and career like soon after that?

I took the Post Graduate Course at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) leaving in 2000. I didn’t get an agent from the final Showcase but 15 of us put on another Showcase by ourselves and I got picked up since then. I tried to do as much fringe theatre work and student films as I could while doing promotional work to make a living. After 6 months I got an 8-week tour around Oxfordshire playing the character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, a great role for a Yorkshireman. It took me 4 years to get an audition for TV! Thankfully, I got it and played Phil Mason on Coronation Street opposite Jane Danson for 2 episodes.

3) You appeared in Miss Julie, a show you produced and adapted for The King’s Head Theatre, North London, what was the creative process like and who did you play in it?

I played John (‘Jean’ in the original text), the male lead, with the two other characters being Miss Julie and John’s fiancee Christine. It was interesting working on the script, adapting it from the original, learning and working on it. As I was producing the play I learnt a lot about marketing, too, and we had some good audiences and a couple of great reviews.

4) What was it like transitioning from theatre to film as you appeared in film projects such as “Cargo”, “What Does Your Daddy Do? (Venice International Film Festival)”, “The Man Who Sold the World”, “Indie Horror Flicks Hellbreeder” and “The Witches Hammer”?

I’ve always been lucky to work on film projects as well as the stage so I find that ‘acting is acting’ in whichever medium one is working in. And, in other words, being truthful, being in the moment, putting your attention on the other character, knowing what you want and why and all the preparation techniques translate the same for stage and screen. I also love working with directors on their vision and helping bring their ideas to life.

5) Moreover, you have been on TV for a few different TV projects like “Eastenders”, “Father Brown”, “Coronation Street” and “Hollyoaks”. Now, as an actor yourself, making the transition from Theatre and film to TV...what are the differences in the medium for an actor's performance to adapt to that, and how do you achieve this?

The main difference for me is the rehearsal time (maybe 2 or 3 weeks for Stage and zero for TV!) and then the speed at which they are filmed and performed. TV you maybe get one or two takes, Film, maybe, a little more, Stage only ONE take (each night's performance), but you get to again and again, 8 times per week. There is a saying - the stage is an Actor’s medium because you and you alone are responsible for what happens once the play begins each night, TV is a director’s medium because it's such a tight turnaround that the director needs to get the best from everyone in quick time and is ‘editing’ the story in his/her/their head as we work and Film is an editor’s medium as he/she/they are given lots of footage and a few weeks or months to cut the film and craft into the final version.

If I need to pick one of them, which one would it be? And why?

I honestly love them all, whichever one I’m currently working in! You focus and think only about the project at hand.

6) Now we see you are going to appear in your first theatre Solo Show “A Hunger Artist”, an interpretation of Franz Kafka’s final work, which will be at The Etcetera Theatre in North London…Please, tell us more about it and what has been the process like in creating a solo show from writing, directing themselves, producing it and at the same time, acting it…please.

Steven Berkoff, who has been very supportive over the last 20 years and has employed me 4 times (huge thanks, Steven!) suggested I try this text as I have wanted to do a Solo Show for many years and this is the centenary year of Franz Kafka’s death. I’ve adapted it from Kafka’s original text and have worked for months with Val Colgan, an experienced tutor and Actor (the original ‘Aliens’ movie) learning the text and trying it out monthly and then weekly.  


Eventually, I booked the Etcetera Theatre and my co-producer Sushant Nair helped with all the technical aspects as well as marketing, flyers, Instagram etc. Mark Glentworth has created a wonderful original score for the show and, it continues to develop and grow with some terrific reviews. Audiences seem to love it and it is a tribute to Franz Kafka’s writing, his final short story, before he died aged 40 of tuberculosis on 3rd June 1924.


Creating a Solo Show is anything, but a solo effort and I am indebted and hugely grateful to the following: Sushant Nair, Valerie Colgan, Jerry Clark, Simon Morgan of TRDPUk, my Agent Joanna Hole of Jo Hole Associates and, of course, Steven Berkoff.

 

7) When are we going to see it?

The show is on at The Etcetera Theatre, Camden, North London at 6 pm on Sunday 23rd June and 7 pm on 25th, 26th & 27th June.


After that, we hope to take the play to festivals and tour it around the UK and hopefully beyond. DO COME TO THE SHOW and we’ll have a drink afterwards in the pub downstairs!

8) You have a drama school in Central London, called London Actors Workshop, please tell us more about it and the courses you explore. And as a facilitator exploring that skill, what is it like to teach?

Yes, London Actors Workshop has been going strong in Covent Garden, Central London since 2005 and has helped over 2500 actors get their start in the business. We provide a range of courses with diverse tutors and Acting Techniques in a very supportive, studio environment. The emphasis is on great, essential Acting practice AND the business knowledge and know-how to get a career started or develop your existing career.


9) What advice would you give to young and experienced actors nowadays since the evolution of the industry that you have experienced so far?

It’s a great time to be an ACTOR! It’s never been easier to get started without having to go through the expense of full-time Drama School, though this is still an excellent route if you can afford it.

Taking a lot of good short courses and getting an excellent Showreel, great headshots, good, top advice and having a dedicated attitude to your craft & career will give you a decent chance of getting work and hopefully, building a career. Yes, this means there is a lot more competition but there are also more opportunities with all the streaming networks and content we now have.

Take your work seriously but not yourselves. Love the Art in yourself but not yourself in Art.
Surround yourself with like-minded individuals who love Acting.

Take courses, join or form a support network, act regularly, even if it’s you and a few mates reading scripts together, have a good, professional, upbeat social media presence, never complain or slag off others, drink lots of water, train your Voice, keep as physically fit as you can, get lots of sleep, go to see plays regularly…….and good luck!

10) And finally, where does the audience can find you?


Instagram

Follow the Instagram page of  "A Hunger Artist"

The show is on at

The Etcetera Theatre,
Camden, North London

Showtimes: Book your Tickets 

Sunday 23rd, June - 6 pm

Tuesday 25th, June -7pm

Wednesday 26th, June - 7pm

Thursday 27th, June - 7pm


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