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"IL COMPORTAMENTO RIDISEGNATO"
(THE BEHAVIOUR REDESIGNED)
Dramaturgy for the actor from Egon Schiele's paintings

 
 
 
 
 

By and with: Claudia Contin e Ferruccio Merisi
Directed by: Ferruccio Merisi

 
 
The study of the actor's body languages (including that of the Commedia dell'Arte) has led the Scuola Sperimentale dell'Attore to the hypothesis of considering paintings as a "text" for the actor's body: just as  happens to language and the phonatory apparatus in front of a page of literature, so too the actor's whole body can "pronounce" the angles and the tensions, the positions and the movements painted by a painter.
 Claudia Contin has chosen the work of Egon Schiele not only for its richness of themes concerning the human body, but also because this extraordinary painter of the crisis of  Imperial Vienna can be recognized as the first painter of the Millennium crisis. So, the actor "wearing" Schiele's work finds himself speaking,  with his body, of realities and appearances, of individuality and the infinite, of water and thirst, of poetry and war.
 Ferruccio Merisi has organized "Il comportamento ridisegnato" as a "guided visit" into the mechanisms of artistic creation; a visit in which the pieces of information offered to the audience are, rather than explanations, simple linear links between theatrical moments of great intensity.
 "Il comportamento ridisegnato" can be defined as a "study" for a show starting from an extraordinary sign language, projected by a painter's brush. It is probably inevitable, in the very nature of such a process, that in the atmosphere of this work of Contin and Merisi the most important theme becomes that of the capacity of the visionary, of prophetic suffering, of the difference between the artist's inner violence and the moral and physical violence of the time he lives in.
 
 
Recommended audience:   For everybody

Technical requirements:
Stage m. 5x8, room completely darkened, black shot, good acoustics.
Dressing-room for 2 actors heated and with running water.
For theaters or spaces up to 200 places: n° 8 reflectors of1000 W; two light stands, a switchboard with at least 6 independent 2 KW channels each one and relative dimmer. For theaters higher than 200 places: n° 12 reflectors of 1000 Ws; four light stands; a switchboard with at least 8 channels and relative dimmer.
Complete audio equipment min. 150 Ws (300 Ws for theaters higher places than 200), with two independent plates for reading CD, relative amplifier and mixer.
Attention: the boxes loudspeakers have to be put behind the scene, in proximity of the backdrop; mixer lights, mixer audio and the CD plates have to be able to be set on the stage instead, on the left side bewaring of the pit. It's necessary a small table not too much depth, able to hold up all these tools
 

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