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Amleto: la veemente esteriorità della morte di un mollusco
Hamlet: the vehement esteriority of the death of a mollusk
1992 / 66min
ROMEO CASTELLUCCI / SOCIETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO
With editorial contribution by Romeo Castellucci and Annalisa Sacchi
This video montage documents a historic theatrical work by Romeo Castellucci, originally created in 1992 and restaged in 2004 at the Théâtre national de l'Odéon. The projection will be accompanied by a commissioned text and editorial contribution presenting a transcription of a conversation between Romeo Castelucci, theater historian Annallisa Sacchi and Filippo Tocchi.
The Italian director is known for having developed, in the late 1980s, a form of theatre grounded in the total integration of the arts and oriented toward a holistic perception of the work. After drawing on myth as a system of universal figures— generating a scenic language emancipated from the dominance of literature—with Hamlet, Castellucci initiates an inquiry into classical dramaturgy that probes the organic and physiological origins of the tragic. This trajectory would unfold in subsequent works such as Orestea (an organic comedy?), Julius Caesar, Genesis. From the Museum of Sleep, culminating in the Tragedia Endogonidia cycle in the early 2000s. Returning to the primordial sources of Saxo Grammaticus and William Shakespeare, the artist approaches the figure of Hamlet as an emblem of the destruction of language and, at the same time, of the construction of a new genealogy. As Castellucci writes: “Hamlet inhabits the stage of the mollusc; he is the one who deconstructs the skeleton, rejecting it as the scaffolding of order as a system.”
By Romeo Castellucci
after William Shakespeare, Saxo Grammaticus, Bruno Bettelheim
Direction, set design, costumes: Romeo Castellucci
Horatio/Hamlet: Paolo Tonti
Voice: Febo Del Zozzo, Stefano Cortesi
Dramatic rhythm: Chiara Guidi
Melody: Claudia Castellucci
Energy: Stephan Duve
Materials: Allegra Corbo
Curated by: Gilda Biasini, Cosetta Nicolini
Production: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Wiener Festwochen
Co-production: Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Automne à Paris
In collaboration with: Teatro Bonci di Cesena
Video editing: Pier Paolo Zimmermann
Original footage: Cristiano Carloni, Stefano Franceschetti
Duration: 66 minutes
Premiere: Cesena, Laboratori Meccanici Comandini, 10 January 1992
Original duration: approx. 120 minutes
Video version: edited in 2025 from footage recorded in November 2004 at Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Automne, Paris
The work is documented in the Historical Archive of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (1981–2006): www.archiviostoricosocietas.eu.
Reservations are open on a ceiling of 50 people. If sold-out, a waiting list will follow.