Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo – Isola
Isola by Rosalinda Conti with Anna Manella
Podcast on Spreaker from Sunday 2nd may 2021
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I wondered whether, in this historical period in which we are faced with numerous and new - and often suffered - forms of isolation, the word Isola (island, Nt), would be appropriate as a talisman to carry forward to the world that, at some point, awaits us. I was unable to provide myself with an answer, but I recalled the sense of emptiness that overcame me one afternoon many years ago, when tourists were leaving the island and the summer was drawing to an end. I remembered how, a few days later, the emptiness gave way to things that were imperceivable if not in the midst of silence. I realised that in some way, although I have not yet understood how, I was ready to begin something new from that emptiness. Rosalinda Conti
Synopsis
On an identified and tiny island, full of people in the summer and almost completely deserted for the rest of the year, the most important celebration of the year - that of the patron saint - coincides with the last day of the summer (give or take a day, depending on the year in question). On the eve of the equinox, the live and the chatter of the three summer months reaches a bright and enveloping peak.
The day after, the island empties.
All of a sudden, the noise stops, and there are much fewer people in the streets.
I have the impression that something is emerging from the emptiness.
Biography
Rosalinda Conti completed a master’s course in Playwriting and Scenography at the Silvio d’Amico Academy. She has studied with, among others, Dacia Maraini, Fausto Paravidino and Lucia Calamaro. In 2012 she wrote Ma io per te amore mio, selected at the Rome Fringe Festival. Two of her works (Quando vai via and Le cose che abbiamo perso nel fuoco) have been published in two anthologies for the publishing house Editoria & Spettacolo. In 2013 she received a special mention for best monologue at the Offanengo film festival, with Non dimenticar le mie parole by Riccardo Rabacchi. In 2015 the work The Yellow Brick Road received mention at the Fersen Award for playwriting. In 2017 she began working with the Compagnia Habitas as a dramaturg for the play Surgèlami. In 2018 she collaborated on the writing of Io e Lei a mockumentary that was broadcast on Sky Arte. In 2019, the piece Tom received a mention at the Hystrio Playwriting Award. Since December 2020 she has been collaborating with Illoco Teatro as a dramaturg for the Catch Me project.
Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni