École des Maîtres | XXIX edizione

The École des Maîtres is an advanced theatrical education project created by Franco Quadri in 1990. Conceived as an itinerant atelier, it is open to professional young actors, and it aims at creating an experience rich in an exchange of methods and practises of theatre production, starting from different texts, languages and artistic languages.

Due to the Covid-19 health emergency, the École artistic direction launched a special edition for the 2020-2021 period dedicated to playwrights, led by Italian playwright Davide Carnevali.

This does not mean shifting our attention from stage practice – far from it. Instead we will take this opportunity to reflect on the relationship between script and staging and between writing and life, but we will do this from a different point of view: that of playwrights. (Davide Carnevali)

The theatrical text created by the selected young playwrights will be presented to the public through stage readings in the different partner countries of the École des Maîtres, translated into Italian, French and Portuguese.

Playwrights do not write theatre, they write for the theatre. Their work can crystallize into a wonderful document of theatrical literature, but it will not be theatre until its words are embodied. By saying that the textual aspect is dependent on the performance aspect does not in any way imply a renunciation of writing; rather it forces us to rethink it. Only by becoming aware of its shortcomings, its being dependent on something else, something unknown and not yet actualised, does language fully become a “theatrical language”. A poetic and poietic language. (Davide Carnevali)

For Short Theatre 2021, the texts by the young playwrights Francesco Alberici, Liv Ferracchiati (Italy); Brune Bazin, Cecile Hupin (Belgium); Jean D’Amérique, Adèle Gascuel (France); Mariana Ferreira, Raquel S. (Portugal) will be staged by companies and performers of the Italian contemporary scene.

The day will be divided in 3 sessions, and so will be the companies that will curate the mise en space:
– 14.30 – 16.00: Manuela Cherubini/Centro Internazionale La Cometa, Valerio Malorni/Simone Amendola, Niccolò Matcovich
– 16.30 – 18.00: Liv Ferracchiati, Raffaele Bartoli, Andrea Dante Benazzo
– 18.30 – 20.00: Francesco Alberici, Caterina Marino/Lorenzo Bruno/Marco Fasciana

Buchi neri, una quadratura
by Brune Bazin
translation Maria Adele Palmieri
directed by Manuela Cherubini
reading by Centro Internazionale La Cometa’s students
with: Chiara Bartolucci, Lorenzo Berardinucci, Daphne Folliero, Pietro Formentini, Simone Guaragna, Alice Lepidio, Fiammetta Mancini, Ilaria Pietrangeli and Martina Spampinato

partners and artistic direction CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italia), CREPA – Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation en Pédagogie Artistique (CFWB/Belgio), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, TAGV – Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (Portogallo), La Comédie de Reims, Centre Dramatique National de Reims, Comédie de Caen –  Centre Dramatique National de Normandie (Francia)

with the support of Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale spettacolo, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia – Direzione centrale cultura, sport e solidarietà, Fondazione Friuli (Italia)

with the participation of  Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico”, Short Theatre, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, ERPAC – Ente Regionale Patrimonio Culturale Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italia), Théâtre de Liège – Centre européen de création théâtrale et chorégraphique, Centre des Arts scéniques, Ministère de la Communauté française – Service général des Arts de la scène, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (CFWB/Belgio); Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Fonds d’Assurance Formation des Activités du Spectacle (Francia); Universidade de Coimbra (Portogallo)