Biennale Theatre  40th International Theatre Festival  Otello 

 

Teatro Toniolo (Mestre)

Tuesday February 24 at 8:30 p.m.

Otello, Tragicommedia dell’arte  [world premiere]

written by Roberto Cuppone

directed by Michele Modesto Casarin

with Marta Dalla Via, Manuela Massimi, Stefano Rota, Roberto Serpi, Stefano Tosoni

live music by the Gruppo Calicanto

drawbar organ, mandola, lute Roberto Tombesi, bass Giancarlo Tombesi, clarinets, ocarina, gralla Francesco Ganassin, bagpipes, flutes, harmonium Gabriele Coltri, percussions, guitar Paolo Vidaich

voice Claudia Ferronato

costumes Licia Lucchese;

sets and masks Stefano Perocco di Meduna

production Pantakin da Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, in collaboration with the Comune di Venezia – Assessorato alla Produzione Culturale

in collaboration with the Comune di Mirano

with the support of the Regione del Veneto

The Moor of Venice appears in the guise of the Commedia dell’Arte in the version of the famous Shakespearean tragedy offered by Pantakin da Venezia, a company that works between tradition and a renovation of the language of theater. Grown out of a branch of the Tag Teatro, the Venetian company has been dedicated for over ten years to research into the Commedia dell’Arte, understood as a terrain that is favorable to an interdisciplinary experimentation of the arts of acting.

At the 2006 Theatre Biennale the company won the Leoncino d’oro Agis award with their production of Il Corvo by Gaspare Gozzi. In Othello, the well-assorted group of artists from the Pantakin enjoy the fundamental contribution of Roberto Cuppone, the author of the play, and Michele Modesto Casarin, who is its director.