Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia is an international festival that takes place in the Italian city of Naples since 2008, every year in June. The festival organizers select, produce and give plays, events and performances in order to be executed by artists from around the world. Other activities of the festival are the development of projects and a productive partnership with national and international cultural institutions, the promotion of vocational education and training, the use of historical- monumental and industrial- archaeological sites as places for ideas. The festival promotes and produces the European Ensemble, the first theater group with professional actors who come from several EU countries.
History
Review
In the first year (2008) was attended by more than 2,000 artists from 17 countries. Among the 40 premiers to 17 works that have been created especially for the festival were .. In the second year (2009) was founded, a Festival d' oltremare (in collaboration with the Teatro di San Carlo ) and a Fringe Festival. A total of 83 theatrical performances were staged, in which artists from 24 countries took part in front of more than 70,000 spectators.
Places
The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia will take place throughout the metropolitan area of Naples. Performances take place not only in many urban theaters such as the Teatro di San Carlo, Teatro Bellini or the Mercadante - Teatro Stabile di Napoli held, but also in places that were not otherwise used as a theater, including the Real Albergo dei Poveri (as a already typical place of the festival ) and other occasional spaces such as the Darsena Acton, the roof of the Academy of Fine Arts, in basements of the city, in front of churches and monuments.
Theatre Workshops
Since its first edition is dedicated to the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia with great attention of theatrical training, with the preparation of workshops, which are led by some of the main characters of the festival. 2008, in collaboration with the London National Theatre Studio organized a workshop, which was led by four playwrights and directors from Italy and England: a cooperation of the actors Manlio Santa Nelli, the Scottish director Matthew Lenton, dramaturge Timberlake Wertenbaker and director Claudio Di Palma. The group of participants, the artist expanded in 2009 with the staging of Napoli non si Misura con la instruments (Naples can not be measured with the mind ) by Manlio Santa Nelli and Interiors by Matthew Lenton. In 2009, the workshops Teatro de los Sentidos, Matthias Langhoff, Nidal Al Ackhar and Luke Hemleb were conducted. Among the participating artists, the Teatro de were going Sentidos by Enrique Vargas - which already by the spectacle Cosa deve fare Napoli by rimanere in equilibrio sopra un uovo (What needs to Naples to do to keep your balance on an egg ) - and it is Matthias Langhoff, who took care of Paradise of Working, a government workshop on the topic of work, which took place between Berlin and Naples. Nidal Al Ackhar, who participated in the 2009 Festival with In front of the Embassy gate the night was long, organized a workshop on techniques and possibilities of improvisation. Finally, Luke Hemleb was invited for the organization of 1003 ( mille e tre ) - a theater workshop, which was dedicated to the figure of Don Giovanni, and also worked at the William Nadylam and the European ensemble.
The E45 Napoli Fringe Festival
Was born in 2009 on the initiative of the festival, the E45 Napoli Fringe Festival, an "Off " festival which is similar to several other international equivalents supports promising writers and directors. The Neapolitan Fringe Festival takes its name from the E45, the road that leads from Finland via Naples to Sicily. In the first year of E45 puppettribunals from a wide selection of proposals in various theaters of the city 27 performances. Two of the ideas were selected for the year 2010. When E45 Fringe Festival 2010 39 ideas among the more than 250 projects were presented original staged.
Conservation
The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia reached the standards of the " Ökohaltbarkeit " and environmental compatibility. Since its first year, the festival of the ISO 14001 standard and the EMAS Regulation corresponded. The sustainability of the festival is guaranteed by the monitoring of the environmental impact of its activities (of the operation of the offices to the realization of the scenes from the line of traffic and construction to energy consumption and other polluting factors). It also uses the festival solar energy that is produced by a photo-electric power plant.
The European Ensemble
The European Ensemble was born in 2008 on the initiative of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia as a working project on languages and topics of multiculturalism and encounter under various theater traditions. There is no permanent theater group, but an ensemble of actors from different countries, in which each plays in his own language. Each year, the project is assigned to a new director; its goal is the production of a supported Napoli Teatro Festival and produced by Italia idea. 2008, under the direction of Virginio Liberti and Annalisa Bianco, the Compagnia Teatrale Europea staged The Trojan Women by Euripides. 2009 David Lescot task is assigned, the L' Européenne wrote and directed. It is a spectacle that was produced together with the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. In 2010, the English director Alexander Zeldin Romeo and Juliet staged. The presentation was produced in conjunction with the National Theatre Studio ( London ) and the Teatro Stabile di Napoli, as well as Italian and English artists as well as with immigrant citizens of the second generation, which form a living community in Italy for many years.