| Year and length: | 2026, 85’ approx. (world premiere) |
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| A special education, research and creative project devised and directed by: | Davide Iodice |
| Creative and pedagogical collaboration and story collection: | Aida Talliente |
| Visual research: | Aida Talliente, Claudio Cescutti |
| Production manager: | Hilenia De Falco |
| Collective stage text created by the creative and pedagogical team with the residents, professionals and staff of: | Centro Servizi San Giobbe |
| Dramaturgy and direction: | Davide Iodice |
| Scenic elements: | Simone Picardi |
| With: | Marco Bertani, Grazia Capraro, Matteo Ciccioli, Linda Favero, Alberto Fornasati, Vassilij Gianmaria Mangheras, Maria Stella Milani, Barbara Riebolge, Aida Talliente |
| And with: | Giorgio Andrean, Eugenia Baio, Alberta Bruscagnin, Giorgio Ceriello, Romolo Corvini, Rina Costantini, Rosanna Di Sanzo, Giancarlo Garlato, Guglielmo Gatti, Gianni Gavagnin, Sylvia Haudenschild, Marialuisa Manente, Ivana Martinuzzi, Silvana Penzo, Maria Stangherlin, Susanna Vianello, Isella Toffolo Rossit, Emma Tonini, Laura Zanini, Elena Zoni! |
| Production: | La Biennale di Venezia |
| Co-production: | Interno 5 |
| In collaboration with: | I.P.A.V. (Istituzioni Pubbliche di Assistenza Veneziane) |
| Special thanks to: | Elisa Pozzobon, director of Centro Servizi San Giobbe; Luciano Barbazza, head of social and healthcare services; Silvia Marzinotto and Elisa Moro, educators; Alessandra Dall’Agnola, unit coordinator; Elena Panza, social worker; Federica Moniale, psychologist; Andrea Vendramin and Nicola Ferracina, physiotherapists; All the staff, collaborators and trainees of Centro Servizi San Giobbe; The families of the residents; Michelangelo Fornaro for the kind permission to use some images |
Theatre
Davide Iodice - Promemoria
Description
In Venice, a new chapter in the special project of Davide Iodice begins, the result of a workshop-based process in which “specialists of the stage” work alongside “specialists of reality.” After Pinocchio, che cos’è una persona, centred on the theme of diversity, Davide Iodice turns to fragility and care, dedicating a sustained artistic and social project to the residents of the Casa di Riposo S. Giobbe in Venice. The artistic team was welcomed for an extended period by the residents and by those who accompany, assist, and care for them on a daily basis, engaging with lived experiences, desires, hopes, memories and forgettings, which now become a collective and public narrative: a Promemoria for looking at the human with empathy.
“The theatre workshop is the privileged space in which to study the person, to attempt to free them from the mask—or through the mask. Through the mask, the person resonates, is amplified. And perhaps this is what theatre is for me: a natural instrument for amplifying the person—for amplifying people” (D. Iodice).