For the penultimate appointment with the Contemporary Regional Season, the programming carried out in collaboration between the Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara of Trento and the Teatro Stabile of Bolzano, on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April 2024, the Teatro SanbàPolis of Trento will host Ottantanove, a show signed by Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano, directors and performers on stage together with Marco Cavalcoli.
Eighty-nine is the winner of the 2022 UBU Award for Best New Italian Text and Best Actor to Marco Cavalcoli. He is also the winner of the "Franco Quadri" Special Mention in the Riccione 2019 Award. A Metastasio Theatre Production in Prato, Gli Scarti Production Centre, in collaboration with Kataklisma Teatro and Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale.
1789. The French Revolution touches and changes all of Europe, founding the world in which we live. But what remains 230 years later? Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano, flanked for the first time on stage by Marco Cavalcoli, with their sharp and ruthlessly ironic writing, are ready once again to probe and unmask the Western cultural apparatus with all its symbols and rhetoric up to the bone of its founding myths.
Past and present, French history and Italian history, modernity and postmodernity overlap on stage in a path aimed at putting our "democratic" lives and the imaginary linked to the concept of revolution in crisis. Is a revolution still possible? And how? Or is it something old, twentieth-century, concluded in another time and in another History?
"The French Revolution has spread throughout Europe and has changed and founded the world in which we live. The Revolution of 1789. What questions does the Revolution continue to ask us today? What relationship do we have after another 89, 1989, with democracy, politics and power? What remains of the Revolution still concerns us? Or is it old stuff? Dusty wigs to put in museums? – ask Frosini and Timpano - Eighty-nine does not want to tell a story, or History, but to immerse themselves in a founding myth, in the cultural materials that produced it and that this in turn produced. The current crisis of Democracy seen in relation to the French Revolution and 1989, the phase that opens our era, today that the very concept of revolution seems to have lost its concreteness, although not its retro appeal [...]".
