THE FURIOUS #7 THE DEATH

THE FURIOUS OF LENZ
TWO-YEAR PROJECT ON LUDOVICO ARIOSTO'S ORLANDO FURIOSO
The new dramaturgical research dedicated toOrlando Furioso Of Ludovico Ariosto, and two-year project structured in eight scenic episodes - four of which presented in 2015 and four in 2016. Facing the great chivalric poem of Ariosto, disruptive work, which puts in crisis the stylistic standards and the literary canons of the time oscillating between phantasmagories, dreamlike states, narrative vortices and contemporary sensitivity, Lenz continues - after the creations inspired by Manzoni and D’Annunzio - his performative investigation into the poetic power of the Italian language. Protagonists of the journey into Furious They will be the sensitive actors - with psychic and intellectual disability - and the historical actors of Lenz, In an inexhaustitious and inexhaustible dialogue for the renewal of the contemporary theatrical language.

#1 THE ESCAPE #2 THE ISLAND #3 THE MAN #4 THE PALACE
#5 THE ILLUSION #6 MADNESS #7 THE DEATH #8 TO THE MOON

Epic • Love • Mindless
Lenz's research on the archetypes of the Italian language continues, after Manzoni a backward turn towards Ludovico Ariosto and his Furioso, among the greatest poems of the Renaissance. The book of heroism and madness, scattered in rhizomes throughout the work, Orlando's madness excessive and paradoxical, exaggerated, which explodes in the invincible pure and perfect knight, sane and principled. But madness is the poetic-linguistic structure- aesthetics of the work itself, lost like reason inside “the container that contained its sense, found by Astolfo on the Moon and driven back into the body of the rightful owner" as Italo Calvino writes in the presentation of his Furioso. The loss of self, some things, of reality, parallel stories, of the plot, of magic, of desire, of the spatial explosion of narrative contexts, the most blind and sudden bestiality that draws absolutely new poetic pictures for chivalrous stereotypes: this is the nervous system of Orlando furioso. A monumental octave imagoturgy that outlines an epochal passage towards a different world, more overlapping, more complicated. A century later Cervantes, with his furious Don Quixote, will give the final blow to chivalric literature, ma, always quoting Calvino, “among the few books that are saved, when the curate and the barber set fire to the library that drove the hidalgo of La Mancha to madness, there is the Furioso…” The work will be structured in eight performative and visual episodes installed and directed by Maria Federica Masters e Francesco Pitiatto - four in 2015 and four in 2016. Interpreters, together with the core of historical actors from Lenz, The “sensitive” actors, mentally and intellectually disabled, who fully matured a unique research path in Europe for intensity and expressive results, impose, true to Artaud's word, an irrational and 'furious' vision of contemporary theatre.

THE FURIOUS (2) #5 The Illusion #6 Madness #7 Death #8 The Moon
fromOrlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

Dramaturgy | imagoturgy | film scenes | Francesco Pititto
Installation | plastic elements | regia | Maria Federica Masters
Musica | Andrew Azzali
Performer | Walter Bastiani, Franck Berzieri, Marco Cavellini, Massimiliano Cavezzi, Charles Right, Paolo Maccini, Delfina Riviera, Carlotta Spaggiari, Barbara Voghera
Direzione Tecnica | Alice Scartapacchio
Technical team | Lucia Manghi | Stefano Glielmi | Marco Cavellini
Assistant | Roberto Riseri
Treatment | Elena Sorbi
Organization | Ilaria Stocchi
Communication | Valeria Borelli
Press office | Michele Pascarella
Production | Lenz Foundation
Progetto realizzato con il sostegno di Dipartimento Assistenziale Integrato di Salute Mentale Dipendenze Patologiche AUSL di Parma
In collaborazione con So.Crem Società per la Cremazione | Ser-Cim Servizi Cimiteriali