Teatro di Nascosto – Hidden Theatre
within the programme
of the festival Volterra Teatro
A day dedicated to Theatre Reportage
28th of July

 

Seminar of Theatre Reportage
From 23rd to 28th of July.

The foundation of the laboratory will be daily sessions with Annet Henneman, Ana Woolf and Faycal El Mezouar 

For nine years, Teatro di Nascosto - Hidden Theatre has developed the work of theatre reportage, creating a connection between theatre and journalism. They bring the voices of people, situations, individuals and collective stories of people who live through horrible situations in war and oppression, often hidden stories. We have traveled in Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq and India,
and told the stories of the people we met. We founded the academy for theatre reportage for refugees and asylum seekers, where they learned to tell their stories. This seminar will focus on war: the life of a city in war, in this case Kirkuk, a city one and half hours away from Baghdad.

At the end of the seminar the participants will take part in the first study for the theatre reportage performance: “City in war”We will work with exercises, techniques and improvisations that will enable us to identify  with, and bring ourselves  nearer to, situations far away from our own life experience. Every day, before starting work the theatre reportage work, there will be a training session with Ana Woolf based on the theory of Tadashi Suzuki (the grammar of the feet) and with Faycal El Mezouar on music.

 

A theatre reportage day at Teatro San Pietro
Theatre reportages speaking of far away situations
28th of July

Seeds of memory 
t16.00 h

created and performed by Ana Woolf
director Julia Varley
language Spanish with Italian fragments

The performance deals with absence, the absence of a father, the absence of a body to be buried, the absence of the 30.000 who disappeared in Argentina during the last military dictatorship. But this absence generates also its opposite, resistance, presence and identity.The absence becomes the departure point from which to create a performance that contains a personal message as well as a political discourse

Study, title to be confirmed
17.30 h

Nicola Damuni from the group Bilad a Cham, will present Israeli and Palestinian short films with a monologue connecting them.

“Città in Guerra”  “City in War”
19.00h

First Study of Teatro di Nascosto - Hidden Theatre
A city: Kirkuk.

A mother lives in daily fear of war, of exploding bombs, of her children not returning from school. A life without the security of a tomorrow... Kirkuk in this case represents all the isolated cities in the world that are living through war. Experiences from war in other countries will be also inserted.

Director Annet Henneman

With
Gainni Calastri
Annet Henneman
Ana Woolf

The participants of the theatre reportage seminar

Music: Faycal El Mezouar
Songs: Annet Henneman
Costumes: Rosanna Marcolungo

Text based on:
The diary of a woman from Kirkuk
Diary of Annet Henneman from her visit to Kirkuk
Testimonies from refugees who lived through the experience of war
Press releases and material about studies of wars worldwide