Home E-mail Contacts PROGRAMMING AND BILLBOARDS IT HAPPENS AT LITTA TICKET OFFICE AND SEASON TICKETS THEATER AND ACTING COURSES BUSINESS AND EVENTS, TEATRO LITTA THE LOCATION PALAZZO LITTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ONLUS > HOME > FRAGMENTS OF CONTEMPORANEITY Theater: Season 14/15 Event concluded [from 14 to 23 November] production: LITTA productions | Symposium Theater Fragments of contemporaneity (Less emergencies) by Martin Crimp - project and direction Francesco Leschiera, Chris White - with Ermelinda Çakalli, Alessandro Macchi, Riccardo Buffonini, Luigi Maria Rausa - sets Francesco Leschiera - costumes Ilaria Parente - lights Luna Mariotti - elaboration and musical choices Antonello Antinolfi Fragments of contemporaneity (Less emergencies) is a collection of three texts written by Martin Crimp in different periods. In these plays, however, the characters do not have a name but a number, they are numbers to be deciphered, they never talk about themselves, what they say says nothing about them, their sex, their age and their physicality. Reality is given only by references to contemporary news. The other characters they talk about are just as unlikely. The trilogy will be accompanied by one of the best-known texts of the English playwright: Advice to Iraqi women . The show wants to go beyond geographical borders, finding the points of contact between two different nations, such as Italy and England, to find those contradictions that belong to a wider system, which is the Western one. The protagonists of the show exist in the abstract, they belong to an urban metropolis, they live within a free market economy, they are victims of a culture of choice where the main themes of the text emerge from everyday situations: malaise, fear, the tension of man. These themes will imbue the show with a rarefied atmosphere, where on a dramaturgical level the power of the text comes through the unspoken, the pauses, the lapsus, the repetitions and the ellipses. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- Teatro del Symposio A Milanese experimentation group that arises from the common educational and professional experiences of its promoters and works on multiple theatrical forms. The meeting of Francesco Leschiera, Alessandro Macchi and Antonello Antinolfi takes place above all on a content aspect, which has therefore created a common thread in the productions. The performances of the Symposium Theater are in fact crossed by the need to tell the identity of man - psyche and matter - the facets that belong to him in a universal way but that are linked to the concreteness of life and to individual experience. The work develops from the text, identifying and highlighting the theme and the message. The construction of the characters then starts from the elaboration of physicality and vocality. Often the inspiration comes from works of art - in particular the paintings of Francis Bacon - but also from ordinary people, both sources of interpretation and important reworkings. Through improvisation - on the body and on the word - the final staging is reached. The aim is to convey not a single message to the public, but a starting point for reflection on the world and on the man who lives, experiences and acts on it. Litta Theater corso Magenta 24 20123 Milan T 02 80 55 882 T 02 86 45 45 46 F 02 36 70 74 36 E info@teatrolitta.it VAT 06679580966 Arrive Public transport Metro: MM 1 and MM 2 (Cadorna) Tram: 19, 16 Bus: 50, 58 Contacts Ticket office Information and telephone reservations T 02 86 45 45 45 Promotion@teatrolitta.it from Monday to Saturday from 15:00 to 19:30 Collection and purchase of tickets Corso Magenta 24 from Monday to Saturday from 18:00 to 20:00 Litta spaces External Relations Department Gaia Calimani; gaiacalimani@teatrolitta.it BoccascenaCafé Fabiana Ferrari: boccascena@teatrolitta.it 2009 © Teatro Litta Project and realization: Gabriele Cometto, Milan - www.cometto.it