The Angel of History
Sotterraneo
CREDITSdramaturgy Daniele Villa
sound design Simone Arganini
dances creation Giulio Santolini
with the contribution of Centrale Fies, La Corte Ospitale, Armunia
with the support of Mic, Regione Toscana, Fondazione CR Firenze
artistic residencies Centrale Fies_art work space, Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna/La Corte Ospitale, Dialoghi – Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin, Armunia, Elsinor/Teatro Cantiere Florida, ATP Teatri di Pistoia
Sotterraneo is part of the Fies Factory, associate artist at Piccolo Teatro Milano and is resident at Associazione Teatrale Pistoiese Production Centre
a special thanks to Gabriele Grossi
UBU AWARD for Best Italian Theatre Show 2022
It’s not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on the past, rather, image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation.
In his latest work, philosopher Walter Benjamin describes an angel who flies with his gaze turned to the past and his back to the future: buildings and ideologies rubbles accumulate before his eyes [musical instruments at the bottom of the ocean, malfunctioning radars, beached whales] and the angel would like to stop and mend those rubbles, but a storm swells his wings and drags him relentlessly forward [dead babies, statues in Antarctica, fluorescent rabbits]: we call this storm progress. Although the angel observes the succession of events [hands on piano keys, atomic mushrooms, postcards in the jungle] and tries to resist the storm, he cannot stop and intervene, he cannot glue the pieces together again and rebuild a shared reality, he cannot do absolutely nothing to help us – maybe only because angels don’ t exist [cyanide cocktails, irrational numbers, tales around the fire]. What other conscious being could try to recompose something broken, take stories apart and – flying or not – finally turn around to project their gaze forward?
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Tour
debut
17-18 June 2022
Ancona, Teatro Sperimentale
tour
25 June 2022
Armunia festival InEquilibro
Rosignano Marittimo (LI), Teatro Solvay
28 August 2022
BMotion Festival
Bassano del Grappa (VI)
14 October 2022, h 21
15 October 2022, h 19
Festival delle Colline Torinesi
Turin, Teatro Astra
22-23 October 2022
Milan, Piccolo Teatro Grassi
3-6 November 2022
Rome, Teatro India - Teatro di Roma
19 November 2022, h 20.30
Teatro Contatto
Udine, Teatro Palamostre
21 November 2022
Rubiera, Teatro Herberia Rubiera
26 November 2022
La Spezia, Fuori Luogo Teatro
7 December 2022, h 21.15
Reggello (FI), Cinema Teatro Excelsior
15-16 December 2022, matinée
17 December 2022, h 21
Pistoia, Piccolo Teatro Mauro Bolognini
14 January 2023, h 20.45
Lecce, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja
27 April 2023, h 21
Casalecchio di Reno (BO), Teatro Comunale Laura Betti
29 April 2023, h 20.45
Ancona, Teatro Sperimentale
11 May 2023, h 21
Pesaro, Teatro Sperimentale
7 August 2023, h 20
Geochang International Festival of Theatre
Geochang (South Korea)
1 September 2023
Scenario Festival
Bologna, Giardino del Cavaticcio
22 September 2023, h 21
Dro, Centrale Fies - Turbina 1
12 October 2023
Poggibonsi (SI), Teatro Politeama
16 October 2023, ore 21
Piacenza, Teatro Municipale
3 November 2023, h 21
Vicenza, Teatro Astra
10-11 November 2023, h 21
Florence, Teatro Cantiere Florida
18 November 2023, h 20.45
19 November 2023, h 16
Pistoia, Teatro Manzoni
24 November 2023, h 21.30
Wonderland Festival
Brescia, Teatro Sant'Afra
8-9 December 2023, h 20.30
Genoa, Teatro della Tosse, Sala Aldo Trionfo
13 December 2023, h 21
Asti, Teatro Alfieri
15 December 2023, h 21
Piossasco (TO), Teatro Il Mulino
11 January 2024, h 21
Cuneo, Teatro Toselli
13 January 2024, h 21
Racconigi (CN), Teatro S.O.M.S
10 February 2024, h 20.30
11 February 2024, h 16
Cesena, Teatro Bonci
17 April 2024, h 20.30
Lugano, LAC, Teatro Foce
19 April 2024, h 20.45
Verona, Teatro Camploy
23-24 April 2024, h20.30
Reggio Emilia, Teatro Ariosto
3 May 2024, h 21
Jesi (AN), Teatro Pergolesi
9 May 2024, h 21
Cecina (LI), Teatro De Filippo
15 May 2024, h 20.30
Bergamo, Teatro Sociale
3 June 2024, h 20
Maribor Theatre Festival
Maribor, Slovene National Theatre Maribor, Stage Tribune of the Ondina Otta Klasinc Hall
