Festival of the Turin Hills 2014

The Festival of the Turin Hills in recent years has given voice through the shows, to the discomfort of the younger generation - everyone will remember the comparison between Judith Malina and Silvia Calderoni in The Plot is the Revolution - perhaps too much to the anger of marginalized people, has explored the many faces of the crisis, but also of social decay, has told the deprivation of liberty, looked at a abortive Arab Spring, was questioned about the identity of the new Italians, on the suffering of migrants, condemned the insidious historical revisionism. It is important that dealt with issues with tenacity, not under the illusion that the theater can never solve the issues, but at least raise them yes. In 2014, following the terrorist attacks in Egypt, in Syria, as he continues the odyssey of migrants in the Channel of Sicily, while politics in Europe often proves incapable of responding to the situation, the Festival shall solicit artists because propose freely and critically their aesthetic vision / politics of contemporary life. The Festival will ask them to take care not only of the repertoire, rereading it, heroes, but all of their lives, perhaps like the outside political reverberates in a domestic interior, as of a European family looks at the world in one night Christmas, and receives or suffers the contradictions of capitalism, how it was to live in the company of Hitler or a girl today laboriously cultivate his dreams against the backdrop of civil war in Egypt.

The lives of all
The Festival of the Turin Hills at a time of severe crisis, which threatens its very existence, does not neglect the pledge with the audience, to give voice, through the artists, to the discomfort of the younger generation, those who are deprived of homeland and freedom, and perhaps lives in a tent first aid or does the caregiver, to the protest of women offenses (which Testori picked up in the 70s by proposing a law on femicide ), the cry of pain of discrimination because of their sexual identity. A love between two teenagers evokes Valter Malosti, adapting a novel by Violette Leduc prohibited. There have been at this nineteenth edition of the Festival accessions of great names of contemporary Italian: Antonio Latella, who inaugurated the program with the marathon Frankly I do not care (coincidentally still does Scarlett O'Hara ! ) Romeo Castellucci, who explores the world of Hölderlin, by Emma Dante Valter Malosti same, the Teatro delle Albe to Motus, Fanny & Alexander to ricci / forte. They all confirm a long and fruitful partnership. So Michele Di Mauro and Cuocolo / Bosetti. Then there are newcomers such as Lucia Squid in The Origin of the World portrays the neuroses of contemporary society, including refrigerators empty and fragile psychoanalysts, or the young people really like Silvia Costa or Maniaci of Love that express better than others , so more philosophical and more surreal, frustration and dreams of new generations. The names of the European theater in the bill are those prestigious Marcial Di Fonzo Bo and Elise Vigier, comebacks, which enact national premiere a new text by Martin Crimp, The Republic of happiness, a parable very critical, almost corrosive , the contemporary society, an indictment of the contradictions of capitalism. The same as, from a different point of view , underlies the original Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich Japanese Toshiki Okada, writer and director who allows you to combine Bach and hysteria from the supermarket. A west at sunset, even now in flames, I tell Philipp Löhle and Anne Habermehl, respectively, in the uncertainty of the situation and Air Stone, texts staged by the students of the Acting School of the Teatro Stabile di Torino within the project Fabulamundi (the same one that leads to the Holden School in Turin Romanian Pintilei ). The public will not fail, therefore, important cultural stimuli. Taken from meetings, reviews of films, from an exhibition. The enthusiastic participation of the audience in the debate that will ensue is crucial to continue.
Sergio Ariotti

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