The well known director Romeo Castellucci from Romagna does not set out to examine religious or moral issues with this work. As he wrote at the debut of the first part of Sul concetto di volto nel Figlio di Dio. Vol. I, which took place in Essen in July 2010 for the Theater der Welt: “The performance aims to be the first brick of what will be a performance on the concept of the face of Christ, entitled… This is the beginning. I want to meet Christ in his long absence. The face of Christ is not there. I can look at the paintings and statues, I know more than one thousand painters of the past who have passed half of their time reproducing the ineffable, almost invisible, grimace of regret that crossed his lips. And now? He is not there now. What is growing for me is the will. It is combining the will and the face of Christ: I want to be in front of Christ’s face, where what surprises me more than anything is the first part of the sentence: I want.”
conceived and directed by Romeo Castellucci/original music by Scott Gibbons
with Dario Boldrini, Gianni Piazzi, Vito Matera, Sergio Scarlatella
The production of this project is supported by:
Theater der Welt 2010/deSingel International arts campus (Antwerp)/Théâtre Nationale de Bretagne (Rennes)/The National Theatre (Oslo Norway)/Barbican London/
and SPILL Festival of Performance/Chekhov International Theatre Festival (Moscow) Holland Festival (Amsterdam)/GREC 2011 Festival de Barcelona/Festival d’Avignon/ International Theatre Festival DIALOG Wroclav (Poland)/BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival)/Spielzeit’europa I Berliner Festspiele/Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)/ Romaeuropa Festival/Theatre festival SPIELART München (Spielmotor München e.V.)/ Le-Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg (Scène Européenne)/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.
In collaboration with Centrale Fies (Dro). The main activity of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio is supported by the following Italian institutions:
Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities/Regione Emilia Romagna/Comune di Cesena.
