Iran - "Alone" by Instabili Vaganti theatre company
Alone is the fifth episode of the web theatre-series 8 ½ Theatre Clips - How the pandemic changed our lives in 8 and half episodes.
Produced by the Embassy of Italy in Teheran and created by Instabili Vanganti company in co-operation with Iranian Don Quixotte company, the series deals with themes and effects of the critical situation the world is facing.
Distancing, loss of physical contact, and theatre, above all, are the themes developed in the fifth episode.
“In Alone, we stage a very current condition (…). On the one hand, we artists are living a state of emptiness, silence, waiting, on the other we are driven to dialogue with a virtual audience. These aspects are difficult to deal with but at the same time, they are someway a richness not to be underestimated”, says Anna Dora Dorno –director, and artistic director with Nicola Pianzola of Instabili Vaganti theatre company.
Here then are Danial Kheirikhah and Nicola Pianzola each playing an actor forced to adapt his art, and spectators are so physically far that their emotional participation can’t be perceived, yet they are present and wating for being amazed.
As a symbol of all the theatres closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we see the historical Teatro del Popolo in Concordia sulla Secchia (Modena), where the Italian company made the video-performance, already not fit for use due to the damages by the earthquake in Emilia in 2012.
Like the previous episodes (Don’t call me Hero, The Notes of Absence, The Night Shift, Beyond the Mirror), Alone is directed by Anna Dora Dorno in collaboration with Ali Shams and performed in Italian and Farsi by Nicola Pianzola and Danial Kheirikhah. Original music is by Riccardo Nanni.
The series 8 ½ Theatre Clips debuted on last August 8 and will end in January 2021. It is part of Instabili Vaganti’s wider project Beyond Borders, involving many artists and Italian Cultural Institutes abroad –among them New Delhi, Beijing, Madrid, Istanbul.
From November 12, Alone is online on the Embassy of Italy in Teheran’s and Instabili Vaganti’s social channels.