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Fire!

With this new work, Mazzarelli returns to the monologue format to play two characters who are created from the crossover of the poetic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Heiner Müller‘s Russian Overture from The Road to Volokolamsk.

CREDITS
year
2006
text
freely adapted from Russian Overture by Heiner Müller and the poetic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky
directed by
Paolo Mazzarelli
cast
Paolo Mazzarelli
set & lighting design
lighting Lino Musella and Paolo Mazzarelli
sets Franco Bencis
production
co-produced by CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG
and the Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi

Fuoco! juxtaposes and interweaves two distinct pieces of literature. The first,  Russian Overture by Heiner Müller, is set in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Moscow and recounts in first person - as if it were a memory flashback - the story of a red Army commander who finds himself having to decide whether or not to shoot one of his soldiers who has deliberately shot himself in the hand in order to avoid having to go to war.
The second draws inspiration from the poetry of  Mayakovsky and though beginning with elegies such as I Love from the autobiographical poem The Backbone Flute, in which the “poet of the revolution” tells of his tormented love for Lili Brik, Mazzarelli draws also on works that are lighter in tone, more playful and provocative such as The Cloud in Trousers  as well as more socially committed poems such as Letter to Comrade Kostrov, his crude appeal against war.
As the action alternates between commander and soldier, from man to adolescent, literature’s most familiar and enduring archetypes come face to face: love versus war, life versus death. In Fuoco!, these universal literary texts, characters and archetypes find renewed expression in a theatrical tale performed by the solo artist Paolo Mazzarelli, who once again adopts the monologue format he successfully experimented with in his show Pasolini, Pasolini!
Fuoco! is brought to life in words and movement in two “scenic locations”, each simultaneously representing two distinct places within the soul: a  blood stained memory bunker for the army commander and the text by Müller and a snow white crucifix like door for the condemned soldier and his ‘final hour’ as a lover, as a man.

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Tour

premiere
13 July 2006, h 21
14 July 2006, h 19.30
Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi
Castiglioncello (LI), Tensostruttura Castello Pasquini

tour
4 August 2006
Granara Teatro Festival
Granara, frazione di Branzone, comune di Valmozzola (PR)
24 August 2006, h 21
Festival di Sirolo
Sirolo (AN), Teatro Cortesi
30 November 2006
TIG - Teatro per l'Infanzia e la Gioventù
Udine, Teatro S. Giorgio
1 December 2006
TIG - Teatro per l'Infanzia e la Gioventù
Cervignano, Teatro Pasolini
9 December 2006, h 20.45
Monfalcone (GO), Teatro Comunale
from 12 to 16 December 2006, h 21
17 December 2006, h 18
Neaples, Nuovo Teatro Nuovo, Sala Assoli
19 December 2006, h 21
Scandiano, Teatro Boiardo
26 January 2007
Cairo (Egypt), Hanager Theatre
from 23 to 25 February 2007, h 21
Teatro Contatto 06_07
Udine, Teatro S. Giorgio
from 1 to 11 March 2007, h 21
Milan, PIM Spazio Scenico
24 March 2007, h 21
project Paesaggio con uomini nei Teatri della Brenta
Dolo (VE), Cineteatro Italia
26 April 2010, h 21
live radio Il Teatro di Radio3
Il Consiglio Teatrale - Il teatro in diretta
by Antonio Audino
Rome, RAI, Sala B, via Asiago 10