Bérénice
Da Jean Racine

Romeo Castellucci

April 4 – 8, 2024

ITALIAN PREMIERE

Running time 90’

Berenice, Tito and Antioco, main characters of Bérénice, are at the center of an adaptation of Jean Racine’s tragedy that goes beyond the painful love and political triangle they are entangled in. The rewriting reveals the story of a woman who is drowning, whose silence is as thunderous as the sound of her own voice. Romeo Castellucci, Triennale Milano’ Grand Invité for the period 2021 – 2024, approaches contemporary themes through a dramatic classic capable of depicting the disfunction of our times. In a phantasmagoric universe inhabited by spectral figures, Isabelle Huppert, one of the most prominent names of contemporary theatre and cinema, is accompanied by Gibbons’ music and Iris Van Herpen’s costume designs.

Director and stage, lighting and costume designer Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is known throughout the world for creating a theatre founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at an integral perception. His theatre engages in a type of dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, thus becoming a complex and supple form of art, a theatre made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting or architecture. His stagings are regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theatres, opera houses and festivals, in over sixty countries covering all the continents. In his career he has received important prizes and awards. Romeo Castellucci is Grand Invité at Triennale Milano for the period 2021-2024. In October 2023 he begins the creation of Richard Wagner's Tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung at La Monnaie Brussels. In 2024 he creates the Bérénice da Jean Racine, with Isabelle Huppert.

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Performance in French with Italian surtitles. English translation available

Credits

freely inspired by Berenice by Jean Racine
a monologue with Isabelle Huppert
and with the participation of: Cheikh Kébé and Giovanni Manzo
and the presence of twelve local persons
concept and direction: Romeo Castellucci
original music: Scott Gibbons
costumes: Iris Van Herpen
direction assistant: Silvano Voltolina
translation and surtitles: Laura Artoni
technical direction: Eugenio Resta
stage technician: Andrei Benchea and Stefano Valandro
light technician: Andrea Sanson
sound technician: Claudio Tortorici
costumes: Chiara Venturini
hair styling and make up ideation: Sylvie Cailler and Jocelyne Milazzo
stage sculptures and automations: Plastikart Studio Amoroso & Zimmermann
production direction: Benedetta Briglia, Marko Rankov
production and tour: Giulia Colla
organization: Bruno Jacob, Leslie Perrin, Caterina Soranzo
contribution to production: Gilda Biasini
technical headquarter team: Lorenzo Camera, Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini
costume intern: Madeleine Tessier
movement double: Serena Dibiase
lines repeater: Agathe Vidal
administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
economic consultant: Massimiliano Coli
executive producers: Societas, Cesena ; Printemps des Comédiens / Cité du Théâtre Domaine d’O, Montpellier
co-producers: Théâtre de La Ville Paris, France; Comédie de Genève, Switzerland; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; deSingel International Arts Center, Belgium; Festival Temporada Alta, Spain; Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Italy, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Germany; Onassis Culture - Athens, Greece; Triennale Milano, Italy; National Taichung Theater, Taiwan; Holland Festival, Netherlands; LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Switzerland; TAP - Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, France ; La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène Nationale, France ; Théâtre national de Bretagne – Rennes, France ; Yanghua Theatre, China.

With the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
With the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea