SHOWS
CURRENT SHOWS
VICEVERSA, 2022
"Vice versa" Synopsis: A woman lives in an apocalyptic future, in which her city has been contaminated by POSTATOMICAL FALL_OUT (AFMOSPHERIC ATOMICS BOMBS).
She cannot leave her city, she does not have the pass that would allow her to leave. The only hope that remains is to face the offer of TECH_KOS S.r.l. which would allow the transformation of all her cells into computer-cells, after transferring all her memory to a computer. The woman accepts and undergoes a 2-week treatment. Something very unexpected happens, goes wrong, a bug, a virus, a trojan, an error, an intention…
A light starts flashing…
The fact is that after the first week, she only has 24 hours left!
TOPIC: WE CAN STILL SAY WE ARE WRONG! LET'S DERAIL THIS TRAIN!
THE SAMSON OPTION, 2019
Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician of Moroccan Sephardic origin, has evidence that, at the Dimona nuclear plant, Israel produces atomic bombs, unaware of all countries in the world. Mordechai decides to release his information and goes to London to publish it in the Sunday Times. Following his revelations, Israeli secret agents of the Mossad lure him to Italy and Rome, after having drugged him, kidnap him and bring him back to Israel, where a court secretly tries him on charges of treason and espionage, and condemns him at 18 years of imprisonment. All this thanks to Cindy, a Mossad spy, who seduces him and convinces him to leave London with her for a few days. The show takes place all inside a taxi, one night, in Rome, between 18:30 and 21:00 on 30 September 1986. The show imagines the two and a half hours that elapse between arrival in Rome, in Fiumicino, and the moment of the kidnapping. Let's imagine that Mordechai understood everything that was happening to him, let's imagine that he chose to accept what was happening to him to give weight to his statements, so that no one could say that he had betrayed and ran away! We imagine that he has chosen to spend most of his life in total segregation to legitimize his words. Let's imagine that Cindy, faced with these revelations, repented, found herself in love with Mordechai, proposed to him to escape, never to arrive at the place of the planned kidnapping. Let's imagine that Mordechai has chosen to fight weapons and war above all, above, even, his own drives and personal desires. Freely based on the true story of Mordechai Vanunu and Cindy Hanin! Opera arias sung live by the splendid voice of Cesare Cesarini! Using video on stage!
An interactive show!
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Cesare Cesarini and Camilla Ribechi.
Lasting about 60 minutes
PAST SHOWS
IL CADAVRE EXQUIS 2017
Leonora Carrington, English surrealist painter, from a very young age, between 1937 and 1940, had an intense relationship with the famous painter Max Ernst, who was also a surrealist, a relationship that ended in tragedy. In France, where the couple retires, Max is arrested several times by the French police and the Gestapo but, on the point of being deported to a concentration camp, he manages to escape from Europe thanks to the help of Peggy Gugghenheim, whom he will marry. Leonora flees to Spain where she has a psychological crisis and is interned several times. She will be saved by the Mexican Ambassador in Lisbon and will flee with him to the Americas, specifically to Mexico, where she will live, loved and respected by all, until the age of 94. Surrealism, Love, War and mental distress are the themes of this show. We will reflect on how war can destroy people's lives but cannot destroy art. Art is the only one capable of saving itself, the only one capable of helping the survivors to be reborn and to continue living.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES Parallel to the story of the life of the artists mentioned, the Show provides for the active participation of the public: in certain specific moments, activities, surrealist techniques including the Collage, and the Automatic Portrait will be proposed. Short videos, at the beginning of each scene, will allow the historical contextualization of the story.
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Cesare Cesarini and Camilla Ribechi
Lasting about 60 minutes
​
LUCREZIA[BORGIA] 2016
2016: A woman believes she is a descendant of the Borgia family and does everything to become a saint, to rehabilitate her past. But not all donuts succeed with the hole and the woman ends up doing something else! One day he comes across the manuscript containing the secret diaries of Lucrezia Borgia. An unprecedented Lucrezia! The manuscript deals with the period, short but intense, in which the daughter of Alexander VI assumes the powers of her father and becomes Popess, the Vicar of Rome! August 1501.
The Borgias: Diabolical murderers or even promoters of the attempt to secularize the Church, as Dario Fo suggests in his book on Lucrezia: “The Pope's daughter”? A reflection on what we think of religion and on the thousand things that it is! A cry for freedom from all the prisons of the mind! DIRECTOR'S NOTES: An actress on stage with a slender scenography, made up of images projected on the wall, a few objects, a few items of clothing and accessories. An interactive show!
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Camilla Ribechi
Lasting about 60 minutes
IL GIARDINO DI OZMAN 2015
A Turkish emigrant builds, close to the Berlin Wall, a small house, made with the waste found here and there, on a piece of land legally belonging to the GDR but physically located in West Germany. Many believe that the man is a spy, soldiers of both armies threaten him, but no one can stop him or send him away, because no one, in times of delicate political equilibrium, takes the responsibility of invading a territory that is not his own, of promoting an act of war. The old man cultivates a vegetable garden in the garden to sell garlic and onions and replies to everyone that it was "God" himself who gave him that land! Who could oppose him? Ozman is the perfect clown, unaware of a story that flies high, inhuman and incomprehensible, above his head, yet victorious, because it is rooted in the only story that truly has value: love and respect for the human being. And Ozman, in fact, treats everyone as his equal. Sometimes the human condition offers unexpected surprises, creates tender and unsuspecting soldiers of causes that even they do not know, non-violent soldiers of freedom. The life of Ozman is a poetic hymn to all of us, small and fragile of the Earth, who, remaining close to our tiny care and our fragility, with dignity, could also risk becoming heroes, real jugglers, the jugglers of destinies of the world. A true story!
DIRECTOR'S NOTES Clown techniques, reading of texts and interaction with the public!
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Camilla Ribechi
Lasting about 60 minutes
​
COSTI QUEL CHE COSTI.
LA VERA STORIA DI CONDOMLIZA RICE.
UNO SPETTACOLO COMICO POLITICO.
2011
CondomLiza Rice, after losing her White House seat, teaches at the renowned and infamous School of Americans. Recently it has been transferred to Italy, to the Italian branch of the famous cradle of South American dictators, called School of Italians. The American government fears that Italy has a problem: Italian politicians do not know the Constitution. In February 2009, in fact, Silvio Berlusconi declared: "The Constitution is pro-Soviet". “Obviously it's not like that”, says Condom Liza Rice, “you just have to know how to interpret it!”. An unconventional, ironic and light-hearted excursus on our rules, starting from the analysis of our Constitution up to the Lateran Pacts and even the Gospel and the Geneva Conventions. How many traps are hidden between the lines of our written rules, how many possible ambiguities? At the School of Italians duplicity is on the agenda, researched, studied and openly declared. War, weapons, history, religion, from the point of view of those who know and want to teach a select few how to live well and command better and better. DIRECTOR'S NOTES: This is an interactive show! The public, the students, will be questioned and subjected to a training. An actress, on stage, in constant dialogue with the audience: her students, the righteous, the elect, the rulers of the world ...
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Camilla Ribechi
DURATION: 65 minutes
I DIARI SEGRETI DI PENTESILEA VON KLEIST
2006
It is the Trojan War. Here, however, a secondary episode of that incredible story is told. The love between the queen of the Amazons, Penthesilea and the Greek hero Achilles. Love and War, Love and Death. An incredible tragedy, masterfully written by the literary genius of Einrich von Kleist. The poetry of his style goes hand in hand with the poetry of love. What can happen to us more unwanted than falling in love with our worst enemy, the most wrong person for us? And this is exactly what happens to Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons. The Amazons, the mythical warrior women who endured men only to reproduce, women who killed their own sons, women who had founded a society of women only. For the Amazons, allies of the Trojans, falling in love with Achilles was a double failure, a double denial, a double No…. Not to mention the fact that Achilles too, after chasing her across seas and mountains, after having almost killed her, falls in love with her, with Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons ... Thinking about it, despite the fact that we are talking about ancient Greece, about wrong loves, about loves that we just shouldn't have felt, that just shouldn't have existed, our daily life, our contemporaneity is dotted. I err? But it is precisely when things are forbidden to us, when things are denied us, that things get more interesting! It is not so? It is precisely then that things teach us the most! Furthermore, loving one's enemy in war is not for everyone, it belongs to the greatest heroes, to the most altruistic and courageous heroes. And that's what the wonderful story is about!
DIRECTOR'S NOTES: An actress on stage in constant dialogue with the music! A chair, a book, an umbrella, some dry leaves, a tulle veil engraved with the mythical horse, that's all we will have on stage. From these few scenic elements, a flight will start among the most hidden folds of Love!
Written by Camilla Ribechi
Directed by Camilla Ribechi
Played by Camilla Ribechi
DURATION: 60 minutes