Canti Orfici #Visioni

Set Design

Paolo Calafiore

Concept and direction

Giancarlo Cauteruccio

Production

Teatro Studio Krypton 2014

Photos

Stefano Ridolfi

Abstract

An enormous cave of stalactites emerges from the darkness and welcomes the ten paintings extracted from the Canti Orfici. The white scenography is composed of large torn and crumpled sheets that become matter and space, evoking the first draft of the lost manuscript, and recomposed from the abyss of the memory of the ‘first poet of modernity’, as Montale defined Dino Campana. Images of Leonardesque landscapes, waters, visions of nature, imaginary architectures propagate like echoes in space and dissolve, along the plot and textures of the Canti Orfici.

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Press review

Theater: well-deserved surprise for Campana

The beautiful scene by Paolo Calafiore is composed of enormous, frayed clippings, almost like sheets of paper torn angrily from a book or a notebook, hanging from the ceiling and stretching to the ground. At first they are white and cold like stalactites, then colorful photographic views of cliffs, mountains, waterfalls and written pages and reproductions of paintings are projected onto them. In this sort of interior cave wanders a single character dressed in white, entrusted to the extraordinary Michele Di Mauro.

Renato Palazzi, selected from DOMENICA del Sole 24 Ore (21st december 2014)