© Marco Parollo
Nerval Teatro
Marat/Sade: Le due rivoluzioni
freely adapted from Marat/Sade. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Peter Weiss
concept Maurizio Lupinelli and Elisa Pol
direction Maurizio Lupinelli
text Eugenio Sideri
assistant director Elisa Pol
costume design Vania Marsura
production direction Ilenia Carrone
technical direction Mirto Baliani
organisation and logistics Eleonora Cavallo
with Marco Cavalcoli, Davide Falbo, Carlo Garavini, Maurizio Lupinelli, Elisa Pol, Miriam Russo
with the actresses and actors of the Permanent Workshop Il teatro è differenza of Ravenna
and with the participants of the non-scuola del Teatro delle Albe
production Ravenna Festival and Nerval Teatro
with the support of MIC – Ministero della Cultura, Comune di Ravenna/Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Otto per Mille della Chiesa Valdese, Romagna Acque – Società delle Fonti S.p.A, La Ruota Magica ODV
con il contributo delle donatrici e donatori della raccolta fondi “A ciascuno la sua parte” promosso da IdeaGinger
in collaboration with Ravenna Teatro e le Cooperative Sociali La Pieve, San Vitale, Selenia di Ravenna
special thanks to James M. Arevalos e Maria Chiara Grotto
Premiere
Imprisoned at the Charenton insane asylum under Napoleon, the Marquis de Sade and his inmates re-enact the assassination of Jean Paul Marat in a revolutionary and poetic performance. Similarly, in the present production, some fifty people, including disabled actors from the Ravenna-based permanent workshop ‘Il Teatro è Differenza’, will create a truly democratic performance space where bodies demonstrate the ferocity of gesture as well as its disarming beauty. In this Dionysian ritual, or catharsis, a community becomes theatre in a constant reversal of power and freedom, cruelty and the grotesque, short-circuiting the combinations of illness and confinement, imprisonment and freedom.
