Orestea

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First production: 1995

Based on Aeschylus.

Direction, set design and costumes: Romeo Castellucci
Dramatic rhythm: Chiara Guidi
Melody: Claudia Castellucci

Featuring: Paolo Guidi, Nicoletta Magalotti, Natali Carvalho Oliveira, Carlotta Piras, Giovanni Vella, Nicola Di Martino, Enzo Lazzarini, Febo Del Zozzo, Loris Comandini, Claudia Castellucci

Coordination: Gilda Biasini, Cosetta Nicolini, Minny Augeri
Stage solutions and execution: Paolo Guidi
Props: Chiara Bocchini
Metalwork: Stephan Duve
Pneumatics: Strapper
Sound technician: Uria Comandini
Wooden constructions: Franco Federiconi
Projection figures: Stefano Meldolesi
Sculptural works: Catia Gatelli, Lorenzo Bazzocchi
Latex: Riccardo Turacchio

Special thanks to Azienda Agricola C. Vallaro, Oleggio.

Production: Societas Raffaello Sanzio, in collaboration with Teatro A. Bonci in Cesena.

New production: 2015

Oresteia by Romeo Castellucci
Concept, direction, set design, lighting, scenography and dramaturgy, 1995/2015
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

Props production: PlastikArt Studio

Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris: “Orestie” by Romeo Castellucci

Music: Scott Gibbons
Lighting created in collaboration with: Marco Giusti
Automations: Giovanna Amoroso and Istvan Zimmermann – PlastikArt Studio
Set design created in collaboration with: Massimiliano Scuto
Production manager: Massimiliano Peyrone
Chief stage manager: Lorenzo Martinelli
Stage manager: Maria Vittoria Bellingeri
Stage technician: Stefano Mazzola
Sound operators: Matteo Braglia and Andrea Melega
Lighting operator: Danilo Quattrociocchi
Props manager: Vito Matera
Wardrobe: Chiara Bocchini and Carmen Castellucci
Production: Benedetta Briglia
Technical managers: Eugenio Resta and Gionni Gardini
Development and communication: Gilda Biasini and Valentina Bertolino
Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci and Massimiliano Coli

Photographs: Luca Del Pia and Guido Mencari

With the collaboration of Daniel Berquiny’s “Parco Faunistico Zoo delle Star”.

Special thanks to the INAIL Prosthesis Centre in Vigorso di Budrio, Bologna, and ANMIL.

Executive production: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

Co-produced with: Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe; Festival d’Automne à Paris; MC2 Grenoble; Célestins – Théâtre de Lyon; Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – Centre Dramatique National de Lyon; La Rose des Vents – Scène Nationale Lille Métropole in Villeneuve-d’Ascq; Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg / Scène Européenne; Romaeuropa Festival; TNT – Théâtre National de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées; Théâtre Garonne – Scène Européenne – Toulouse.

In collaboration with the Festival d’Automne à Paris.

Twenty years after their production of the Oresteia, Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio resume their dialogue with Aeschylus and return to the Odéon to present one of the foundational works of their artistic research.

In collaboration with the Festival d’Automne à Paris, the Odéon hosted six of their works between 2000 and 2006. What new phase will this inward-looking return represent in the history of one of the most innovative European theatre companies of the last thirty years?

The “distorting power” generated by this kind of performance is the power of myth itself. By transforming the theatron—“the place for watching”—into a spiritual machine, Castellucci stages the “malfunctions of being within the human framework of an artificial ruin”.

In tragedy, “unspeakable horror takes shape in a form of glacial beauty”. Here, experiencing its representation on stage will be like meeting Medusa’s seductive gaze without being able to look away.