Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo –Y.E.T.I.
Y.E.T.I. by Niccolò Matcovich, with Alfonso De Vreese, Anna Godina, Marco Mavaracchio
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When the letters were drawn, I hoped I would be assigned a strange one, a difficult, problematic and limiting letter. This is probably because when I write “to order”, the more restrictions there are, the freer I feel within the thought structure. Y leaves little room for imagination. After a wander among the Yachts of the Yakuza, who reputedly spend time on YouPorn while eating Yoghurt produced by Yankees but purchased in Yen or in exchange for a few Yaks, I dreamt of a Yeti, one of those really big, bad a muscular ones that said choose me over and over, and the more it repeated its message, the bigger it became, until - swollen with rage and with its flames burning - it took hold of its hair head and pulled it off; it was a mask. Underneath was a normal, almost anonymous, person, who gradually deflated until he was about my size. He looked at me and said Choose me? and I answered OK, and he answered OK, and that night I found my word. Niccolò Matcovich
Synopsis
It is the year 2050. The Great Frost has completely covered the planet. The cities are empty, the trapped oceans are endless sheets of ice, and the vegetation has wilted. The sun has grown cold, it seems unable to reach the planet. In the ice desert, two Ferrymen land on the Himalayas with a single goal: find the Yeti.
Biography
Niccolò Matcovich, born in 1989, is an actor and director. He graduated in Playwriting at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Dramatic Arts in Milan in 2014 and, on returning to Rome at the beginning of 2016, he founded the company Habitas together with the actors Livia Antonelli and Chiara Aquaro.
His directing ranges from classic prose, opera and research, while his writing focuses on the rhythm and musicality of words, as well as on linguistic experimentation.
With Habitas, he works on contemporary playwriting and, since the summer of 2018, his production activities have been accompanied by the creation, artistic direction and organisation of CastellinAria - Festival of Pop Theatre in the castle of Alvito in the province of Frosinone. He is currently planning the fourth edition. As well as Habitas, the project also involves Anna Ida Cortese.
In September 2020, together with Laura Nardinocchi, he won the Scenario Infanzia Award with Arturo. The play was also a semi-finalist at the In-Box Blu 2021 award.
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