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New Text New Theatre Festival 2
THE CONTRARIAN DUO OF ITALIAN THEATRE ARE COMING TO ISTANBUL TO PUSH THE “LIMITS”
GalataPerform is hosting Ricci and Forte, the Contemporary Italian Theatre’s duo who have been talked about in recent years during the second New Text New Theatre Festival at the end of May this year.
Bearing the distinction of being the first festival focused on scriptwriting in Turkey, this year’s theme of “New Text New Theatre Festival” is “Limits”. As part of the festival there will be readings of the plays of new writers, stage readings, interviews and workshops.
The international guests of the festival this year are the Ricci/Forte duo. The Italian press have called this duo “two great masters of contemporary theatre and modern staging”. They have represented Contemporary Italian Theatre at international festivals with their plays, “Macadamia Nut Brittle”, “Grimmless”, “%100 Furious”, “Abbastarduna”, Pinter’s Anatomy” and “Imitation of Death”
Ricci/Forte who prefer to tell realities of today with realistic dialogue, answer the people who ask about the violence and sexual elements in their plays by saying “We only tell the truth of what we see every day with a poetic language”.
As part of the Second New Text New Theatre Festival, the duo’s, who will be in Istanbul between 23 and 27 May, “Macadamia Nut Brittle” which has been selling out for the past three years in Europe, will be presented as a stage reading. “It’s our dark story about the fears of adults” says IL Secelo XIX about the play. There will be a Q&A session with the duo after the stage reading of the play which handles the European culture’s hopelessness in the face of American and global culture.
In addition, the duo’s play “Grimmless” which they staged in 2011 and wrote based on the Grimm’s Fairy Tales will be shown to residents of Istanbul as video screenings. The duo describes “Grimmless”as “tales without happy endings”.
Finally, Ricci/Forte will conduct a three-day acting workshop with Turkish actors named “Ricci/Forte: Beneath the Roses”. During the workshop which will be open to only 20 participants, the physical and psychological limits of the actors will be pushed.
The festival program and workshop announcements with information about applying for the workshop can be found on www.galataperform.com after 16 April 2013.
Ricci/Forte
They studied writing in Silvio D’Amico Dramatic Arts International Academy in New York University and Rome with Edward Albee. They won many awards such as Permio Studio 12, Oddone Cappellino, Vallecorsi, Fondi-La Pastora, Hystrio and Gibellina-Salvo Randone.
They represented the Italian Stage in Rouen, Marseilles, Nantes and Paris. They also took part in many international festivals such as Les Halles in Belgium, Europe&Cies in Lyon, MC93 in Bobigny, Zagreb Queer in Zagreb, Mladi Levi in Ljubljana, Underground Theatre in Arad, Lingering Whispers in London, New Plays From Europe in Wiesbaden, Glow in Berlin, NYI in New York, BITEI in Chisinau, MESS in Sarajevo, Escena Contemporanea in Madrid, Parraga in Murcia and finally Territory and Platforma in Moscow.
Troia’s Discount was staged in 2006, in 2007 they were invited for a “Face to Face” with Olivier Py by the French Consulate. They presented the first part of Metamorphotel and Wunderkammer Soap projects at the Castel dei Monti International Festival. 100% Furious was staged in 2008 for the first time. Aristophanes’s Ploutos which was staged by the Teatro di Roma and directed by Massimo Popolizio, was deemed worthy of the best drama award by the critics of the Biennale Venezia Teatro 2009. At the same time, Macadamia Nut Brittle was staged at the Garofano Verde Festival for the first time Abbastarduna, directed by David Bobée was staged at the Théatre des Berbardines in Marseilles. Then, Pinter’s Anatomy was released as a co-production with. CSS/Udine. Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida was staged at the Due Mondie Festival in Spoleto for the first time. Some Disordered Christmas Interior Geometries was staged at the Fondazione Alda Fendi in Rome. Grimmless was staged in 2011 with the support of Teatro Pubblica Pugliese. Macadamia Nut Brittle, directed by Simon Delétang, was performed at the Espace Malraux Scene Nationale in Chambery and Théatre Les Ateliers in Lyon. Wunderkammer Soap was a part of the Romaeurope Festival as a completed project. Finally, the premiere of Imitation of Death took place at the Romaeuropa Festival in October 2012.
New Text New Theatre Project
New Text New Theatre, which is an international and innovative project focusing on contemporary theatre and new playwriting styles, has worked on two main axes which are play readings and playwritings since 2006. This text-oriented project opens the stage direction, acting, dramaturgy and stage design these new texts have, up for discussion.
New Text New Theatre Festival, which started as a two-day script writing festival for the first-time last year as part of the New Text New Theatre Project, has the distinction of being the first script writing festival in Turkey. The festival that is being held for the second time will present new scripts from new writers to the audience once again this year.
From December 2012, under the leadership of Yeşim Özsoy Gülan and Ceren Ercan, and the involvement of Okan Urun, Sibel Arslan Yeşilay and Assoc. Dr. Beliz Güçbilmez, new writers participating in the playwriting workshops had the opportunity of working with writers such as Paloma Pedrero from Spain and Peter Arnott from Scotland.
The theme that participants will be focusing on for short plays during the workshops was determined as “Limits”. Five scripts that were developed during the five-month workshop with “Limits” being their theme, were chosen by the New Text New Theatre team. These five texts will meet with audiences as play readings and stage readings as part of the Second New Text New Theatre Festival in May.