Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo – Deserto
Deserto by Riccardo Favaro
with Alfonso De Vreese, Lorenzo Frediani, Anna Manella, Marco Mavaracchio, Francesca Osso
Podcast online on Spreaker from Friday 23 April 2021
Basing the choice of a title on an assigned letter of the alphabet calls for a fair amount of trust. Not so much, I feel, in the text being written, but rather in one’s flair for association. More than a name for a type of landscape, desert (deserto in Italian, nt) is the indication of a state, of a condition. It corresponds to the idea of Abandon and, by natural contraposition, to Choice. In literature one comes to the Desert. It appears to me to be a sincere association, perhaps the most sincere I could have come up with, in order to express the cruelty and contraditory nature of the period we are currently experiencing. Riccardo Favaro
Sinossi
A home, with a family who have come together for dinner. It appears to be a dinner just like any other, habitual. The Father and Mother feel obliged to talk about something in turns, with order. Then they retire to another part of the house. Once alone, the Son and Daughter do the same. But to what home to their words belong?
Biografia
Born in Treviso on 16 March 1994. After studying the classics, he moved to Milan, where he studied and graduated as a playwright at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Theatre. He began working immediately, handling adaptations under the direction of Giampiero Solari. He was a finalist at the Riccione-Tondelli Award in 2017. He won the 2019 Scenario Award with the play Una Vera Tragedia, which he wrote and co-directed together with Alessandro Bandini (a LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura production in co-production with Teatro i). Again in 2019 he made his debut at the Biennale Teatro with Saul, written with Giovanni Ortoleva. In 2020 he was a guest at the International Festival of Theatre in Lugano, and at the Festival delle Colline Torinesi. In the same year, he began a collaboration with Carmelo Rifici, who called on him to be part of the editorial committee for Lingua Madre - Capsule per il futuro (LAC). As part of the same project, he wrote Analisi Logica, a text in essay form which Fabio Condemi directed, as well as designing the sets and costumes. After having taken part as selected author (with Ultima Spiaggia), in 2021 he became a partner of Situazione Drammatica.
Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
in collaborazione with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni
sotto gli auspici del Centro per il Libro e la Lettura