Carlo Quartucci (1938)
Italy


Biography :

"In the 1950s, he was found in Rome studying architecture, painting and cinema, but soon, after the fate of the family, would turn his attention to the language of theater. in 1959, debut (in his triple capacity as director, set designer and actor) in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, to follow in 1960 There was a crowd at the castle of Jean Tardieu, in 1961 the chairs of ionesco and 1963 Endgame Beckett. In 1962, along with Leo De Bernardinis, Rino Sudano, Cosimo Cinieri, and others, he was part of the newborn Community Filming Debut at the Teatro Goldoni in Rome with the performance of Me and Me' . The 60s and 70s will see protagonist Carlo Quartucci of the Italian theater, as well as many others, including Carmelo Bene, Leo De Bernardinis, Perla Peragallo Carlo Cecchi, Rino Sudano, Carla Tatò, who will constitute an alternative or in fact a break rather than "critical theater leading" the neorealist generation of "resistance" (Luigi Squarzina, Giorgio Strehler, Vito Pandolfi, Visconti Luchino...), mainly inspiring currents and languages which was strongly influenced by surrealism, futurism, grotesque, and authors who represent in some way, like Bragaglia, Ettore Petrolini, Buster Keaton... In 1964, the Teatrostudio Teatro Stabile in Genoa, a new look of the 'Society of the Shoot' of Quartucci Co began by waiting for Godot, achieving some critical success at the local level.

The years 1964-1965 saw Quartucci involved in the "reading-show" the new American theater and angry with the British, with slide projections and music... In 1965, he was seen trying an event called Cartoteca by Tadeusz Rózewicz (1965) which caused the first disagreements between the director and Ivo Chiesa and Lip Zip Tour Vap Crep Scap Plip Scrap voyage Le Big Mam, presented at Venice Biennale, inspired by the text of Giuliano Scabia, involving, among others, actors like Leo de Bernardinis, Rino Sudano and Claudio Remondi. In 1966, the stages The cow talking to Pasquale, collage show between the rural and the unreal, directed on a political level, together with the Italsider workers of Genoa, with texts by Ruzante, Plautus, Aristophanes, Brecht, Cervantes, Rabelais , Pirandello, Mrozek. The period of EMMETI shows and directed by Squarzina the Fantesca mark the final (generational) break between Ivo Chiesa and Quartucci. Follow shows how the Mayakovsky and his companions in the October Revolution (1967), the witnesses of Różewicz (1968), the Pantagruele Radio (1969), the Don Chisciotte television (1970), the play of Roberto Lerici He presented at the Venice Biennale in 1969.

In 1972, the company once experienced a theatrical touring company of “Camions” which would see the association of the long and fruitful artistic collaboration with Pollock Carla Tatò with the creation, among others, of the films made for television Borgatacamion, Robinson Crusoe and Nora Helmer. 1980 was the opera tour, “Theatrical Trilogy and Cinema”. 1981 saw the birth of the project “The Raft of Babel”, where the director, Carla Tatò, Jannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, Roberto Lerici, Germano Celant, Rudi Fuchs, brought together in Genazzano writers, filmmakers, theater actors, painters , etc. with the aim of giving life to a representation and in a language where interdisciplivare to merge and interact with various forms of art. This is the period of shows throughout Europe, such as Italian Comedy (1981), Didone and Funeral (1982).

In Berlin, in 1984, Quartucci will shed light on Kleist's project with the performances of his pieces: Penthésilee, Song for Penthésilee (Already performed in Bologna in 1983), Rosenfest Fragment XXX. While, in Vienna in 1986, the director will be established nach Themiscyra.

From 1986, the "Raft of Babel" project moved to Erice in Sicily, where it set up a permanent laboratory ("Days of the Arts") on the new way of understanding the theatrical language of art, now extended to other artistic sectors. So in this new interdisciplinary hope we have The Story of His Son Has Changed (1987), Pirandello's The Mountain Giants (1989), Beckett's First Love (1989), The Samarkand Garden (1990); Tamerlane the Great Marlowe (Berlin 1991), Antigone by Sophocles (Performed in Segesta in 1991), Macbeth Shakespeare (1992) The Golden Circle of Macbeth (1993), Ager Sanguinis (1995) Medea (1989 and 1998) by Aurelio Pes .

Del 1998-2001 are the projects The Golden Circle of Power and The Nightingale Fable that will involve Quartucci and artists of “The Raft of Babel”.

In 2002 he received the Carlo Quartucci degree honoris causa from DAMS Turin University. together 2002-2007 Carla Tatò, other artists and cultural institutions participate in a vast European project. He is currently fighting with the Teatr'Arteria Roman, or his new so-called "space project." »"

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