THU 11 JUNE  9 PM 

concept and direction Daniela Nicolò, Enrico Casagrande
with Tomiwa Samson Segun Aina, Yuan Hu, Enrico Casagrande - on video Silvia Calderoni, Alexia Sarantopoulou
dramaturgy Daniela Nicolò - research and dramaturgical collaboration Ilenia Caleo
video shooting and editing for the stage Vladimir Bertozzi - sound environments Demetrio Cecchitelli
technical direction Martina Ciavatta - lighting and video design Simona Gallo
a production by Motus with Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT, Teatro Nazionale di Genova, Snaporazverein (CH) and Romaeuropa Festival

A “performed film” where narrative levels blend together in a kaleidoscopic way and everything is in jarring relation with the present day. Captain Walton and the ghostly sister Margaret/Mary - Walton/Wollstonecraft - Seville/Shelley do not inhabit the polar ice caps but an arid and apocalyptic planet, in the final days of our battered humanity, among forest fires, echoes of genocidal wars and killer drones. An extreme, dramatic and mad film set among the Calabrian “eco-monsters” and sun-blinded beaches. Also protagonist of this work is the sea, shining at dawn and darkening at sunset, swallowing and spitting out the exhausted bodies of the creature and Doctor Frankenstein in their desperate pursuit. A composition that further amplifies the Chinese box game with which Mary W. Shelley told the story of hatred - and radical tenderness - of the creature, which “will continue to exist because it never truly lived”.

Motus was founded in Rimini in 1991 by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, producing from the very beginning performances capable of recounting the harshest contradictions of the present. The company’s work, made up of theatre, performance, installations, seminars and workshops, is presented throughout Europe and all over the world. The company’s directors were artistic directors of the pandemic fiftieth edition of Santarcangelo Festival and curate Supernova, a festival of contemporary performing arts in Rimini.

Duration: 60'

FESTIVAL OPERA PRIMA – XXII EDITION