| World premiere: | 2020, 20’ |
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| Creator and director: | Daniele Bartolini |
| With: | Maddalena Vallecchi Williams, Michele Smith, Dean Gilmour |
| Project assistant: | Michele Andrei |
| Sets, technical direction and sound design: | Matteo Ciardi |
| Virtual Reality film produced by: | Toasterlab and DopoLavoro Teatrale (DLT) |
| VR video operator, VR technological development and video montage: | Ian Garrett |
| Production director: | Thomas L. Mallon |
| Co-production: | DopoLavoro Teatrale (DLT) and Stazione Utopia |
| With the support of: | Villa Charities Inc. |
| Note: | Show for one viewer only - interaction with performers. Not suitable for young audience. Nudity on stage. A virtual reality headset will be worn by the audience. The headset will be sanitized at each use |
Theatre
Daniele Bartolini - The Right Way
Description
The spectator (one at a time) is invited to take my bed space and ‘fall asleep’ with what are frequently thoughts, visions, fears and uncertainties from my world. Mine, those of a writer/director, an immigrant into a NEW world, always NEW.
This bed is equipped with a VR headset, left alone and once in bed, the visitor “falls down the rabbit hole”. This pre-sleep condition plays a key role: this is the universe the spectator experiences, the moment at which we are about to fall asleep and plan out the next day, the moment at which the artist re-examines ideas in that semi-conscious state in which thoughts are fragmentary and thought associations dense and rapid.
Without taking sides or expressing any sort of judgement, the show illustrates my mental mechanism only.
A coach brings protagonists/spectators rest to an end and restores them to their work responsibilities. It’s time for work now, to act, film… Get the first take.
The spectator/director will be obliged, via the required mediation of the coach, to direct two performers in a delicate scene.
Will they film the scene? How? Or will they decide to break off filming?
Daniele Bartolini