| Year and length: | 2025, 80' (world premiere) |
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| Musical hypertheatre inspired by: | Daniil Charms |
| Direction: | Thom Luz |
| With: | Eva Cela, Pietro Giannini, Fabiola Leone, Irene Mantova, Riccardo Rampazzo, Daniele Valdemarin |
| Musical direction: | Peter Conradin Zumthor |
| Scenes: | Giuseppe Stellato |
| Costume design: | Graziella Pepe |
| Lighting design: | Simone De Angelis |
| Stage direction: | Simone De Angelis |
| Assistant director: | Consuelo Bartolucci |
| Assistant set designers: | Laura Giannisi, Caterina Rossi |
| Project coordination: | Francesco Manetti |
| Production: | Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico |
| Co-production: | La Biennale di Venezia |
Theatre
Thom Luz / Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio d'Amico - Hurray! I said nothing!
| Sala d’Armi A | Details |
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.
Russian writer and poet Daniil Charms is one of the many authors granted posthumous fame after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This belated recognition revealed a body of work steeped in dark wit, macabre humour, and an unbridled delight in the absurd, in which Charms transmuted his despair into hundreds of miniature scenes, monologues, stories, and reflections.
Zurich-based actor, director, and musician Thom Luz - renowned for a distinctive musical theatre that breathes life into the immaterial - here collaborates with the Academy’s actors and musician Peter Conradin Zumthor. The idea is to create a hyper-musical theatre piece based on the Russian author and in line with Charms’s motto: theatre must calm the confused of this world and confuse the calms of this world.