Fabiana Iacozzilli and Linda Dalisi set off for Montevideo to meet the survivors and relatives of the victims of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, seeking out the voices of the people behind this story. The use of puppets allows for an exploration of the spiritual dimension that is central to the story.
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Teatro Studio Melato
On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying forty-five passengers, crashed in the Andes. Twenty-nine people survive the impact, but after seventy-two days in the icy wilderness, only sixteen were rescued. It was at this point that the world learned that in order to survive, the youngsters, many of whom were members of the Old Christians Club team, had fed on the bodies of their companions.
More than fifty years on, Fabiana Iacozzilli and Linda Dalisi set off for Montevideo to meet the people behind the legendary disaster. «What is it that the people in this story continue to seek?», they ask. The answer is Oltre, a theatrical journey that explores the physicality and the memory of an event that, like a prism, contains the lines of every physical and metaphysical boundary crossed. The play integrates puppet theatre with spoken accounts; the puppets, inspired by the works of Giacometti, allow the bodies to transform, leading the audience into the spiritual dimension of the tragedy.
A story full of love, a tale of survival and also – in the words of Ana Ines Lamas, the sister of one of the victims – «of ignorance and imagination»; those young men had no experience of snow, and it is maybe this that allowed them to find a way to survive, going beyond all known limits.
Duration: the play is currently in production
On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying forty-five passengers, crashed in the Andes. Twenty-nine people survive the impact, but after seventy-two days in the icy wilderness, only sixteen were rescued. It was at this point that the world learned that in order to survive, the youngsters, many of whom were members of the Old Christians Club team, had fed on the bodies of their companions.
More than fifty years on, Fabiana Iacozzilli and Linda Dalisi set off for Montevideo to meet the people behind the legendary disaster. «What is it that the people in this story continue to seek?», they ask. The answer is Oltre, a theatrical journey that explores the physicality and the memory of an event that, like a prism, contains the lines of every physical and metaphysical boundary crossed. The play integrates puppet theatre with spoken accounts; the puppets, inspired by the works of Giacometti, allow the bodies to transform, leading the audience into the spiritual dimension of the tragedy.
A story full of love, a tale of survival and also – in the words of Ana Ines Lamas, the sister of one of the victims – «of ignorance and imagination»; those young men had no experience of snow, and it is maybe this that allowed them to find a way to survive, going beyond all known limits.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
OLTRE
Come 16+29 persone hanno attraversato il disastro delle Ande
conceived and directed by Fabiana Iacozzilli
dramaturgy Linda Dalisi, Fabiana Iacozzilli
with Andrei Balan, Francesco Meloni, Marta Meneghetti, Giselda Ranieri, Evelina Rosselli, Isacco Venturini, Simone Zambelli
dramaturg Linda Dalisi
set design and puppets Paola Villani
sets Paola Villani
music and sound Franco Visioli
lighting Raffaella Vitiello
animation curated by Michela Aiello
director’s assistant Cesare Del Beato
volunteer director’s assistants Matilde Re and Francesco Savino
with testimonials from Roberto Canessa, Beatriz Echavarren, Roy Harley, Soledad Inciarte, Susana Danrée de Magri, Ana Ines Martínez Lamas, Juan Pedro Nicola, Alejandro Nicolich, Gabriel Nogueira, Claudia Pérez del Castillo, Eduardo Strauch, Teresita Vásquez, Gustavo Zerbino
translators and interpreters Virginia Gramaglia, Diana Da Rin
a Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria production
coproduced with Cranpi, La Fabbrica dell’Attore / Teatro Vascello
with the support and Italian debut of Romaeuropa Festival
with the support of Centro di Residenza dell’Emilia-Romagna L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
with the contribution of the Italian Institute of Culture of Montevideo
with thanks to Fivizzano27 and Comune di Gubbio
special thanks to Biblioteca Nuestros Hijos
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