15th to 18th December
9.30pm
Alfândega
Companhia Teatrale di Giorgio
Barberio Corsetti (Itália)
Il Processo
(The Trial)
de Franz Kafka
Music Daniel Bacalov
Set Design Giorgio Barberio Corsetti and Cristian Taraborrelli
Stage Management and effects Luigi Grenna, Daniele Iraci, Mariano Lucci
Costumes Cristian Taraborrelli
Concept and Video Direction Fabio Iaquone
Lighting and effects Piergiorgio Foti
Co-production Compagnia Teatrale di Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Teatro Biondo Stabile di Palermo for the Festival di Palerm sul Novecento, Fondazione Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria (Italy)
Performed in Italian without subtitles
Approximate length: 3 hrs (with interval)
Giorgio Barberio Corsetti returns to Franz
Kafka, the author who has been the most constant stimulus to his thought and theatre. With
Il Processo (The Trial), the Italian director returns to the construction of a
strange world turned into the space of perception, where actors and audience lose
themselves in a mental and scenographic labyrinth. Along with Corsetti, Fabio Iaquone is
also making his return. They are a pair of artists who, luckily, visit us on a fairly
regular basis.
"I was looking, more than anything
else, to go through The Trial without trying to interpret it. As I have always done, the
rest was left to Kafka's writing. I filtered it through me. I also tried to work on it in
the way the actors did. We had begun work on an adaptation, but later we returned to the
book: the basis for rehearsals was Kafka's book."
Giorgio Barberio Corsetti
"What the audience meets, sitting on
moveable seats and steered by stage hands, during Il Processo, in this staging by Giorgio
Barberio Corsetti, are the recurrent obsessions and mental torture of the main character,
Joseph K.. A parallel universe of distorted perceptions of reality, desires and feelings
of guilt, materialised in a wall of video projections produced by Fabio Iaquone."
Nico Garrone - La Repubblica