Il Canto Della Caduta, de Marta Cuscunà no São Luiz

Marta Cuscunà returns to Lisbon.

In collaboration with A Tarumba – Teatro de Marionetas, the director, puppeteer and Italian playwright Marta Cuscunà brings to Lisbon a show that has as protagonists a mechanical crow, manipulated through technology used in animatronics, that help her tell a story freely inspired by a ancestral legend.

Show spoken in Italian and subtitled in Portuguese

THE SONG OF THE FALL
Freely inspired by the myth of Fanes
Sources of thought and words: Kläre French-Wieser; Carol Gilligan; Ulrike Kindle; Giuliana Musso; Heinrich von Kleist and Christa Wolf

The myth of Fanes is a popular tradition of Ladinos, a small ethnic minority that lives in the central valleys of the Dolomites. It is an epic cycle that tells of a peaceful kingdom led by female queens, destroyed by the onset of an era of domination and the sword. It’s the black fall song in the horror of war.
Today we are still immersed in a system of ceaseless wars. It seems that war is an inevitable part of mankind’s destiny. The myth of Fanes, on the contrary, speaks of a golden time of peace that was lost.
Autumn music wants to bring to light the story of how we were, this desirable social alternative for the future of humanity, which is always presented as an unrealizable utopia. And instead, maybe, it already existed.
The central theme of the show is war. A war that is never seen on the scene. However, it is there, from the point of view of the only characters who always take advantage of this: the crows.
The main protagonist of the staging is, therefore, a bunch of animatronic crows, maneuvered through mechanical joysticks, designed and made by the scenographer Paola Villani.
The attempt at the basis of the scenographic project is to undermine the imagery of puppets, which in Italy is still very much linked to popular tradition, through the use of some animatronic technologies commonly applied to the world of special film effects and made with elements of industrial components.

Note the presence of loud and repeated disturbing sounds and frequent flashes of light during the performance.

15 and 16 Feb, Friday and Saturday, always at 9pm.

CREATION AND INTERPRETATION Marta Cuscunà PROJECTION AND ANIMATRONIC PERFORMANCE Paola Villani REALIZATION ASSISTANCE Marco Rogante COLLABORATION Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, A Tarumba Teatro de Marionetas, Lisboa TECHNICAL SPONSORS igus® innovation with technopolymers; Marta s.r.l. supplies for industry COPRODUCTION Centrale Fies, CSS Stable theater of innovation of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Teatro Stabile di Torino and São Luiz Teatro Municipal Marta Cuscunà is part of the Fies Factory project of Centrale Fies

Centrale Fies, Dialogi- Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin, São Luiz Municipal Theater, La Corte Ospitale
With the contribution of the Centro di Residenza dell’Emilia-Romagna “L’arboretum-Dimora Theater, La Corte Ospitale

TECHNICAL SPONSORS igus innovazione con i tecnopolimeri; Marta s.r.l. forniture per l’industria COPRODUCTION Centrale Fies, CSS Teatro Stabile di Friuli Venezia Giulia, Teatro Stabile di Torino and São Luiz Teatro Municipal

SUPPORT Italian Institute of Culture of Lisbon