CONFINI is a performance about the migrations of the past, of the present and of the future, a work on the political, economic and industrial history of the European Union, a warning on the climate emergency and the future of humanity on Earth and in infinite space.
It’s a project started in 2018 and developed in the following two years through numerous residences in Italy and Luxembourg, in which Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros met several collaborators, done researches and formed an artistic partnership with the Italian-Luxembourgish author Ian De Toffoli, entrusting him with the drafting of the text of the show. It’s a work that, due to its international and cross-border nature, has seen its debut postponed by a year due to the pandemic, but which has been able to rework this crisis within its creative process.
On stage performers of different languages and nationalities date back to the origins of European identity, going through a century of industrial revolutions, wars and economic crises. The actors embody the stories of ordinary people, Italians who have left their homeland to go and work in the mining basins of Northern Europe; but they also give voice to the political figures who have marked the milestones in the history of the European Union and to two coryphaeus that guide the spectators within this prismatic tale. A documentary theater, in which the small story of individuals dialogues with the great history, to project itself towards tomorrow and ask questions about today. A performance in which reality and fiction go hand in hand, bringing on stage testimonies of real people but also of humans from the future who have survived planetary catastrophes.
concept, care and set Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros text Ian De Toffoli dramaturgy Agata Tomšič direction, music and video design Davide Sacco with Hervé Goffings, Sanders Lorena, Marco Lorenzini, Djibril Mbaye, Agata Tomšič, Emanuela Villagrossi costumes Laura Dondoli organization and technical team Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse
production Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse, TNL – Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Ravenna Festival, ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival
in collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Campania Teatro Festival in residency at Fondazione Teatro della Toscana, OTSE – Officine Theatrikès Salento Ellàda, Teampo Reale with the support of Municipality of Ravenna and Region Emilia-Romagna with the patronage of Embassy of Italy in Luxembourg and Embassy of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Italy
thanks to Pietro Valenti, Ruth Heynen, Silvia Pasello, Silvia Lodi, Remo Ceccarelli, Maria Luisa Caldognetto, Eugenio Giorgetta, to the Istituto Universitario Europeo, to the Centro di Microbiorobotica di Pontedera, to “Passaparola” and to all the people interviewed, for having nurtured the path of creation of the show; to Giuseppe Bellosi for the advice on the Romagnolo dialect
duration 130 min
performance in French, Italian, Luxembourgish, German, English with surtitles
ErosAntEros was born from the union of Davide Sacco, stage director, and Agata Tomšič, actress and dramaturg, in January 2010. Their research pursues an engaged theater that doesn’t give up the aesthetic value of the form, in a strong relationship with the history, the present and the territories in which it is created, with the aim to connect theater to life and make the imagination a tool to transform reality. They have been produced by important theatrical institutions, including Emilia Romagna Teatro, Ravenna Festival, TNL – Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Teatro della Toscana, Teatro Piemonte Europa, Teatro della Tosse, Campania Teatro Festival.