From The night just before the forests of Bernard-Marie Koltès
Curated, directed by Babilonia Teatri
Translation Francesco Bergamasco
Adaptation in Veronese dialect Enrico Castellani
LIS Translation Daniel Bongioanni
With Enrico Castellani and Daniel Bongioanni
Scientific collaboration Jean Paul Dufiet
Live music and sound design Giovanni Frison
Light design Luca Scotton
Accessibility advice Ass. Fedora
LIS Interpreter Andrea Consolaro
Co-production Pergine Spettacolo Aperto, operaestate Festival, Teatro Scientifico di Verona
With the support of Fondazione CARITRO
In collaboration with the University of Trento

"Night just before the forest" by Koltès, brings here on stage a meeting between languages: French, Italian and dialects. Between written and spoken language. Between Italian Sign Language and electronic music. An actor, a ISL interpreter and a musician create a hybrid creation where differences can coexist. The differences run through Koltes' writing and inhabit the scene, forging a theater where differences empower each other.

Co-production OE - National Premiere

Translation and adaptation of La nuit juste avant les forêts by Bernard-Marie Koltès
To E. M., for the grace he gave me
To E. M., for the words he gave us
To E. M., for the freedom and irreverence he has given us
To E.M., for all that - at least I- cannot say with words yet
Translation and writing: Domenico Ingenito
Reading: Domenico Ingenito
coproduction Interno5, operaestate Festival

Nuttata is the Neapolitan translation of the monologue by Bernard-Marie Koltès, in which the main character shares his feeling of estrangement, marginalization, his need for love and how he had to emigrate from his homeland. For the translation, Domenico Ingenito (also author and actor) first has translated literally the text, then he interviewed street kids at the train station of Naples, asking them to read extracts of Koltès’ text. Keeping in mind the sound of their voices, he then completed the translation and the rewriting of the French monologue.

OE COPRODUCTION

by Enrico Castellani and Valeria Raimondi
with the artistic collaboration of Francesco Alberici
with Francesco Alberici, Enrico Castellani and Valeria Raimondi and Orlando Castellani
technical direction Luca Scotton
production Babilonia Teatri e La Corte Ospitale
coproduction Operaestate Festival Veneto
with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
Thanks to: Daniele Costa, Nadia Pillon, Elisa Pregnolato, Jonel Zanato, Annalisa Zegna, Stefano Masotti, Marco Pesce, Francesco Speri

The new project of Babilonia Teatri investigates the concept of home starting from places that, in the eyes of most people, are not homes. Nursing homes, family homes, prison, street, hospital, dormitories, shelters, for those who live there, they are home. From the encounter with the people who inhabit these places, from their knowledge, from living them as guests, originates Pietre Nere, the new show of Babilonia Teatri that invited five artists under 35 dedicated to different artistic languages, to the creation of an opera. Each of them was asked to choose one of the places of investigation, to return, on the basis of knowledge and encounter, an artistic work.
And from all these artistic contributions, a theater show is born made of voices, sounds, images, unpublished compositions and reflections. Languages that intersect, contradict each other and allow us to articulate a multifaceted reality, going to build a show that feeds on multiple looks, each able to bring a different sensitivity and mood. A creative strategy that allows us to deal here with the story of the concept of home in a broad, relaxed and unconventional sense, giving light to all the houses that often remain in the corner, as something that lives far away and with which you have no points of encounter and contact.

creation Sabina Bočková, Johana Pocková
live music Lukáš Palán
dramaturgy Viktor Černický
choreography support in Bassano Ilaria Marcolin
with Dance Well dancers and with dancers from the Agora Coaching Project of MMContemporary Dance Company
part of the Shape It project, supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union

The choreographers and authors of The Lion’s Den engage in a process of transmission of the choreography to ten young dancers, attending the Agora Coaching Project of the MMContemporary Dance Company, and ten Dance Well dancers. A process part of the Shape It project, supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, dedicated to model a new approach to developing dance for young people: here the group delves into the themes of the choreography and redefines the concepts of limit and possibility.

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