| Year and length: | 2025, 235’ (comprising two intermissions; world premiere) |
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| Inspired by: | The last days of mankind. Four stations not to forget by Karl Kraus |
| Direction: | Antonio Latella |
| With: | Eva Cela, Pietro Giannini, Fabiola Leone, Irene Mantova, Riccardo Rampazzo, Daniele Valdemarin dramaturg Federico Bellini |
| Dramaturgy: | Federico Bellini |
| Scenes: | Giuseppe Stellato |
| Lighting and stage direction: | Simone De Angelis |
| Movements: | Isacco Venturini |
| Assistant director: | Consuelo Bartolucci |
| Assistant set designer: | Laura Giannisi |
| Project coordination: | Francesco Manetti |
| Production: | Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico |
| Co-production: | La Biennale di Venezia |
Theatre
Antonio Latella / Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio d'Amico - The last days of mankind. Four stations not to forget
Description
Hosted by the Biennale College Teatro, www.wordworldwar.bomb is a project developed by the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico” for its final-year acting students, with artistic supervision provided by Antonio Latella.
The masterpiece by Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind is a foundational inspiration for Latella’s vision. As he writes: “Kraus turns this text into a ruthless documentation of the historical facts of the Great War, writing with a cynical clarity, constantly shuffling the cards of narrative logic, employing a continuous shift in styles… This material, chosen for the young actors of the two-year program, becomes a war-material. The actors are subjected to a relentless downpour of words they must endure, but above all, to the constant dressing and undressing of dozens of characters they must continually bring to life and let die... The adaptation—or rather the reduction—will be shaped actively, almost as a creative rewriting, directly upon the bodies and voices of the actors, who will be pushed into a true marathon of words”.