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Musician Riccardo Nova and Giacomo Costantini, with Quattrox4 Company and Milano Musica Festival, build a spectacle in which contemporary music and contemporary circus merge to pay homage to the theatre of Samuel Beckett. Their inspiration is in fact Act Without Words I, a piece devoid of speech in which a man lost in a desert and without means of escape tries in vain to find some water. What happens if the characters, instead of one, become seven? Musicians and circus actors animate this world like puppets and puppeteers, reinventing the universe of the Irish playwright, writer and screenwriter, to converse with an audience of young viewers.
Credits
Composer: Riccardo Nova
Director: Giacomo Costantini
Choreographer: Roberto Olivan
Circus actors: Caterina Boschetti, Giulio Lanfranco, Clara Storti, Simon Wiborn
Musicians: Pino Basile, Simone Beneventi, Lorenzo Colombo
Lights: Flavio Cortese
Costumes: Beatrice Giannini
Live electronics: Riccardo Nova
Coordination: Filippo Malerba
Audio technology implementation edited by AGON acoustic computer music
Original music by Riccardo Nova for percussion and electronics (Ricordi, 2018)
Milan Music Commission with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Indian voice: Varijashree Venugopal | Indian percussion: BC Manjuna
Production: Milano Musica | Executive production: Quattrox4 | In collaboration with: Teatro del Buratto, Circo El Grito, AGON computer music acoustics, ZAUM_percussion | Thanks to: Teatro G. Persiani, Obrador – Espai de Creació, Spazio Agreste | With the support of: Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung | Project born in the ambit of Intercettazioni – Artistic Residence Center of Lombardy
