ROMEO CASTELLUCCI

THEATRE DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT, ARTISTand DESIGNER

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• He earned his diploma in set design and painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna.
• Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde.
• In 1981 founded the experimental theater company SOCÌETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO.

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• In 2003 he became director of the theatre section of the 37th edition of the Venice Biennale.
• In 2008 he was one of two "associate artists" at the Festival d'Avignon, and created three pieces inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. The trilogy was considered: "the best play and one of the ten most influential cultural events in the world for the decade 2000-2010".

SOCÌETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO

AVOID: Conventional coherent narrative.

FOCUS: Visual and auditory impact.

USING: Silences, word fragments, sounds, projections, human bodies and even animals and machines as a performers.

ARTAUD inspired a NONVERBAL THEATRE OF IMAGES

ARTAUD inspired a THEATRICAL DECONSTRUCTION OF THE VOICE.

CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI: "it is necessary to negate traditional theater language as every detail of the performance implies and reflects the entire point of it, and make that point universal."

CHIARA GUIDI:“We start from the presumption that superficial and pleasing things should not be done ... we must do something that hits, something that transforms.”

ROMEO CASTELLUCCI:

"A spectator is a kind of pervert."

"Spectatorship is a disease. It will make you pale and feeble, it will sap your energy and render you unfit for action. Only in those strange moments of utter captivation or TRANCE, you forget that you're a spectator."