LEONCE AND LENA

“The tiredness of the gestures that are repeated, Dreams are also equal: without surprises. And the wonder of the range of emotions that love offers. At times the music that seems to be canceled the thoughts, The bodies dragged as leaves by the desire for dance. Questions to each other. “Life too long?”. Looks. Expected. The play. Try to be rulers, the crown in the head .. the ordered and desires, disordered thoughts ... a vague lightness crossed by profound restlessness. Un great emotion. With very long applause ". Valeria Ottolenghi

After seven years of laboratory experience with guests of the therapeutic-rehabilitative community, Lenz Refrazioni presents one of the highest results of his work with a group of ex-long actors psychic degents of the Colorno asylum: The reference dramaturgy is the theatrical work Leonce und Lenna, taken from the German writer Georg Büchner with translation, Adaptation and dramaturgy of Francesco Pititto and the theatrical direction and conduct of the laboratory of Maria Federica Maestri. Performative outcome of the theater laboratory created in 2006 From Lenz Refrazioni, In collaboration with the Department of Mental Health of the Ausl of Parma and presented during the eleventh edition of the Festival Natura Dèi Teatri, The show sees some former psychic degents on stage, Now guests of the multifunctional center P. Corsini of Pellegrino Parma area, Together with the actresses of Lenz Refrazioni Valentina Barbarini and Sandra Soncini. The show, which is part of a large four -year project 2004-2007 With reference dramaturgy, Georg Büchner's theatrical work (Woyzeck, Lenz, Leonce in Lena, The Death of Danton), It represents a fundamental step of the theatrical path that has put the psychic sensitivity of the contemporary actor at the center of the poetics and aesthetics of the Lenz refractions. LEONCE AND LENA, expressing with formal fullness the artistic value achieved by experience, It was considered a special project of the Emilia-Romagna Region, from the ideal characteristics for the presentation in various cities in the Region involving local authorities, Universities and theatrical structures operating in them.

The story of Prince Leonce and Princess Lena, Forced to get married by King Peter, Father of Leonce, acquires a new dramaturgy and artistic form thanks to the work conducted with ex-psychic degents actors. The two young people, intended for marriage without ever having seen each other before, do not accept the impositions of families and flee: Leonce with a young vagabond philosopher named Valerio and Lena with his housekeeper. Leonce and Lena meet by chance in an inn e, without knowing their respective identities, they fall in love mutually. The Special Theater Laboratory_ausl is a theatrical awareness project aimed at ex long psychic degents guests of the therapeutic-rehabilitative community. Active from 2000 It is made by Lenz Refrazioni in collaboration with AUSL – Department of Mental Health. In addition to Büchner's works, Goethe's faust, Life is a dream of Calderón de la Barca are the playwrights explored over the years and whose performative results have been presented to the public as part of the last seven editions of the International Festival Natura Dèi Teatri. It is a multi -year path that aims to give shape to the sensitivity of the psychic disabled actors through the exploration of the theatrical language. It is a work process that is defined in the search for the pedagogical "verb", capable of building the bridge between the imaginative visions of the irrational, very powerful in sensitive subjects, and the body and real actions of the theatrical experience.

The structure of the laboratory is divided into a complex reading work, dramatization, Scenic processing conducted by the director Maria Federica Maestri, and a translation work, Dramaturgy and image curated by Francesco Pititto. In the didactic-formative practice of Lenz Refractions the linguistic acquisition process, gestural and verbal, It is fondly grafted on the scenic elaboration of the reference corpus. The 2004_2007 Quadrennial Project has the theatrical work of Georg Büchner as its reference dramaturgy, and in particular four texts as an object of processing: WOYZECK, LENZ, Leonce is this, Danton's death. Masterpieces of the highest German romantic playwright, These works represent for Lenz refractions the fundamental poetic synthesis of their theater.

INTRO. BÜCHNER PROJECT
It is as if after removing the last mask, the face had also come away. The outline of that face remained, The void fills the shape of empty. Empty and shape make up the new effigy of the actor no longer patient, of the man or woman to whom he was torn away a few decades ago. “In effigie, in effigie!"The new marriage with the new reality must take place, with the second life that everything wants to know about the first. Everyone is Lenz, Woyzeck O Marie, You are leon, o danton or julie because everyone has its own story that contains everyone and everything. Loneliness and part of a natural whole, Silent visions and frastons, Ozosity imposed and desire unwatched, changes that flow too high to be able to participate. “I don't want to continue. I don't want to make noise/in this silence with the chatter of my steps/and the panting of the breath ./so of a disease that makes you lose memory. It is as if, for each, the memory had returned and the death positioned a little more distant, All looking for a little matter to give body to the torn face away. Contemporary metamorphosis of resurrection of meat in the Work in progress of an unfinished work. (Francesco Pititto)

Happy illusion_candle ends
2000_2007
There is perhaps a need for continuity that owes nothing to continuous, not even as a break?
Nobody has ever shouted. Yet the disaster made a crack in the glass of the time. With hammer strokes.
Everything was established, decided, without joke.
But the whim organized the ruin of the regulated time, the destruction of the pure and empty form in which the present of each victim is sagged.
A dream made of vigil. A practice made of oblivion. Here is the recipe book of the Doktor Null.
Impatient and complacent narcissus the whim constituted the memory (false) of the time unregulated through the experience of the incineration.
And so the victims leave by enchantment to attract in a consistency that unifies and universalizes in the contemporary of the other ruin.
He owns - the whim – A skeptical gayness, not available, which projects the seriousness of the damage, of suffering, of death beyond any seriousness.
However, we must say it patiently tense to impatience. Until you reach a compromise with homogeneity (of destinies, minds, naked bodies) In a form of opposition attenuated to the evident harshness of creation, We are catapulted by the living of death to dying of life.
Today we are therefore happy and capricious. (Maria Federica Masters)

LEONCE AND LENA

Since Georg Büchner

adaptation translation | playwriting || Francesco Pititto
screenplay and video direction || Francesco Pititto
conduction of the laboratory || Maria Federica Masters
theatrical direction | scene | lights and costumes || Maria Federica Masters
interpreters || Guglielmo Gazzellii |Liliana Berte | Paolo Maccini | Paolo Pediri |
Angelo Pederzani | Luigi Moia | Mauro Zumino | Daniela Valenti | Valentina Barbarini | Sandra Soncini | Lino Pontremoli
Project care || Lisa Gilardino
costume making || Manuela Brigazzi
production assistant || Marie-Fanny Ribeyrolles
training project manager || Mariolina Cardani
Directorate Assistant || Antonio Calianno
Rehabilitation project manager || Paolo Pediri
production || Lenz Refractions
first || Collecchio, Court of Giarola, XII ed. Nature Gods Theater Festival. 5 October 2006