by and with Roberta Bosetti and Renato Cuocolo
with the participation of the dog Nuvola
soundscape Globster
organization Claudio Ponzana
production Cuocolo/Bosetti Iraa Theatre, Teatro di Dioniso, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Olinda Milano, ICA (Institute Contemporary Arts) Sydney
In the field of “Il nostro teatro quotidiano. Per Cuocolo/Bosetti IRAA Theatre” by Silvia Mei, In collaboration with Centro La Soffitta – Dipartimento delle Arti dell’Università di Bologna
Running time 1h
Cuocolo/Bosetti IRAA Theatre as he wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald «are the cutting edge of contemporary Australian performance». Their work has received many accolades from critics and the public in the International Festival from 26 nations.
Winners of numerous awards including UNESCO Awards, Green Room Award, MO Award and the prize Cavour their performances are presented in the houses or hotels where they live thus exposing intimate space and home to the viewer-visitor in search of an impossible, illegal geography of intimacy. In their performances the theater and life, reality and fiction, actor and character overlap.
Founded in Rome in 1978 by Renato Cuocolo The IRAA Theatre has created a series of seven trilogies that have been presented in twenty-six countries on four continenti. In the 1988, the company and ‘moved to Melbourne where and’ eventually became the leading Australian company innovation (Flag Company). Since 2012 he opened an office in Vercelli in Italy where, with the assistance of the Australia Council and some of the main Italian theater festival, has presented a series of new works and repertory.
Roberta goes to the moon investigates the memory and the objects that come from the childhood home. «This last show has begun to announce – the two artists say – after finding same old magazines in the home warehouse. A special edition of a weekly magazine that celebrates, with color photos rare for that time, the Apollo 11’s moon landing on the Sea of Tranquility. For some months, the idea of the moon turns into our heads. A trip to the moon or from the moon, this is not clear yet. We’ve probably fallen in love with the title: Roberta goes to the moon. Or, and most likely, something on earth does not convince us.»
Cuocolo Bosetti
Cuocolo / Bosetti IRAA Theatre as he wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald «are the cutting edge of contemporary Australian performance».
Their work has received many accolades from critics and the public in the International Festival from 26 nations.
Winners of numerous awards including UNESCO Awards, Green Room Award, MO Award and the prize Cavour their performances are presented in the houses or hotels where they live thus exposing intimate space and home to the viewer-visitor in search of an impossible, illegal geography of intimacy.
In their performances the theater and life, reality and fiction, actor and character overlap.
Founded in Rome in 1978 by Renato Cuocolo The IRAA Theatre has created a series of seven trilogies that have been presented in twenty-six countries on four continenti.Nel 1988, the company and ‘moved to Melbourne where and’ eventually became the leading Australian company innovation (Flag Company). Since 2012 he opened an office in Vercelli in Italy where, with the assistance of the Australia Council and some of the main Italian theater festival, has presented a series of new works and repertory.
The last work of the company were presented with success and critical interest in numerous festivals among which: Vienna Festival, Adelaide International Festival (2 editions), Melbourne International Arts Festival (4 issues), Sydney Olympic Art Festival (2 editions), Olinda Milan (2 editions), Contemporary Teatro Metastasio in Prato (6 issues), Festival of the Hills Torino Contemporary Creation (7 editions), A Theatre in the Houses Arlette (5 editions), Theatre of the Cough Genoa European Capital of Culture, the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, Es .Terni, International Festival of Andria, San Diego Contemporary Theatre, Lincoln Center New York, Cite ‘Paris, Calais Le Channel Scène Nationale, Goteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (2 editions), Waseda International Centre Tokyo.
Based on the elaboration of elements taken from their lives, Cuocolo / Bosetti build a series of shows in which reality and fiction overlap. Their work challenges the traditional separation between actor and character. It ‘an invitation to reconsider the boundaries between performance and reality, between art and life, fiction and autobiography.
Their work normally for a few spectators at a time, taking place in non-theatrical spaces: private houses and hotels where Cuocolo / Bosetti really live. The hotels and the houses are not sets but traps reality.