Teatro Metastasio di Prato - Contemporanea Festival 19

In Contes Immoraux - Partie 1: Maison Mère , un progetto commissionato dai Documenta 14 di Kassel nel 2017, Phia Ménard costruisce un villaggio Marshall di cartone a dimensioni reali attraverso un movimento deciso, come quello di una guerriera che affronta la battaglia fino alla morte. Tutto si gioca in un istante, tutto sembra perfetto, tranne che per quella nuvola che oscura la scena... Il nonno materno della Menard fu una vittima del bombardamento degli alleati che rase al suolo Nantes nel 1943. Durante la sua infanzia l'immagine e le conseguenze delle bombe non le sembravano reali, fu solo dopo molto tempo, visitando una fossa comune, che si rivelò la terribile infamia delle bombe. Contes Immoraux - Partie 1: Maison Mère fa i conti con l'assurdità del piano Marshall: gestire la ricostruzione seguendo modelli di case prefabbricate. drammaturgia e direzione / Phia Ménard e / Jean-Luc Beaujault dramaturgy and direction and scenografie / Phia Ménard - performance / Phia Ménard scenography performance musiche e spazio sonoro / Ivan Roussel - direttore di scena / Pierre Blanchet e / Rodolphe music and sound space stage manager and Thibaud - costume / Fabrice Ilia Leroy - direttore tecnico / Olivier Gicquiaud costumes technical manager co-direzione, produzione e amministrazione / Claire Massonnet co-director, production and administration assistente di produzione / Clarisse Mérot - pubbliche relazioni / Adrien Poulard production assistant public relations assistente tournée/ Lara Cortesi assistant touring coordinator La compagnia Non Nova-Phia Ménard è sovvenzionata da / French Ministry of Culture e / Communication - DRAC des Pays de la Loire, is subsidised by and Nantes City Council, the Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire, the Conseil Départemental de Loire-Atlantique, the Institut Français e / the BNP Paribas and Foundation - La compagnia Non Nova ha sede a Nantes / The company is based in Nantes La compagnia Non Nova / Phia Ménard è attualmente artista associato a / Malraux scène nationale Chambery Savoie, is currently associated artist at and the «TNB, Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique de Rennes » Il progetto Mother House ha ricevuto lo speciale supporto dell'Istituto Francese e della città di Nantes / The project Mother House has received a special support from the Institut Français and the City of Nantes 47 SCENA CONTEMPORANEA C CONTES IMMORAUX - PARTIE 1: MAISON MÉRE COMPAGNIE NON NOVA-PHIA MÉNARD C So that the Allied troops fighting against the Axis partners could engage their troops on European soil, they employed the defence strategy of carpet bombing. This strategy, used on both sides, turned out to be an unprecedented human tragedy for all of Western Europe. Entire cities were wiped out, burying their inhabitants beneath the rubble. My maternal grandfather was one of these victims when Nantes was carpet bombed by the Allies in 1943. During my childhood, the image and consequences of bombs did not seem real to me; bombs were just the stuff of fantasy, as they were for many children. It was much later in my life, when I realised we were not going to lay flowers at the grave of my grandfather but were instead going to visit a faceless mass grave, that I understood the terrible infamy of bombs. Maybe it was at that moment my mind stumbled across the words 'Marshall Plan', the program set up to rebuild Europe: organise mass destruction and then manage the reconstruction of war-devastated cities, following the model of a re-fabricated house and a rewritten urban development plan. Build a 'Marshall' village out of made-to-measure cardboard, the same way we put up a series of tents for refugees. Just here, beneath a seemingly unthreatening cloud. A simple, repetitive gesture, like a robot. Spead out, trace, cut, assemble, put in place, then start all over again. Everything seems perfect, except for that cloud, which looks like it's getting bigger, thicker and darker. Maybe a bolt of lightening, a gentle breeze, then eventually a series of heavy raindrops, a shower, maybe even a rainstorm with torrents of water! The Marshall village collapses, despite the energy used up trying to save it. It turns into mush, a sticky mess in which bodies drown... Phia Ménard biglietto 10,00 € (rid. 7,00 €) / ticket durata 90’ / time C