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Societas Raffaello Sanzio<br />
BR.#04 Bruxelles/Brussel<br />
Tragedia Endogonidia - IV Episode<br />
by Romeo Castellucci<br />
and<br />
Films of Tragedia Endogonidia<br />
C.#01 Cesena, A.#02 Avignon, B.#03 Berlin<br />
by Cristiano Carloni and Stefano Franceschetti<br />
sounds and original music by Scott Gibbons<br />
Tragedia Endogonidia is a dramatic cycle that develops along eleven separate Episodes which<br />
are linked to nine European cities.<br />
It’s an open representation system which, in the course of three years, continuously transforms<br />
itself and shows – each time - the various stages of its own evolution. Episodes are therefore<br />
named after a space-temporal abbreviation which marks the places encountered along the route<br />
made by the Tragedy, that is the cities, and also bears the progressive number relevant to the<br />
transformation process.<br />
The word ‘Endogonidia’ refers to those simple living beings that have, inside of them, the<br />
presence of gonads(1): this allows them to reproduce themselves unceasingly. ‘Tragedy’, on the<br />
contrary, presumes an end (of the hero). Tragedia Engonidia is like stating the infinity of the<br />
end.<br />
The intention is to represent the tragedy by re-thinking it, here and now, in the place and at the<br />
time we are currently living. The sequence of images do not go back to any acknowledged<br />
myth, they are rather always projected in the future. In all Episodes some basic and recurrent<br />
figures stand out; themes and concepts of the tragedy, elicited from the real condition of being<br />
spectators.<br />
The destination of Brussels, reached by the 4 th Episode, introduces new figures into the<br />
humanity of the Tragedia Endogonidia. These characters are linked to the theme of time, that is<br />
not abstractly considered here, but it is embodied in the biological age of people. BR.#04<br />
considers human life in its dimension of duration, especially questioning about the enigma of its<br />
start, its birth into the world, its initiation into language and it being swallowed by the abyss of<br />
time.<br />
Tragedia Endogonidia also includes a Series of Films, the Diary of the movements ‘Idioma,<br />
Clima Crono’ and an Atlas of images and ideas.<br />
The cycle, that will engage Societas Raffaello Sanzio until the end of 2004, is structured as<br />
follows:<br />
C.#01 CESENA 25th-26th January 2002<br />
A.#02 AVIGNON 7th-16th July 2002<br />
B.#03 BERLIN 15-18 januari 2003<br />
BR.#04 BRUXELLES/BRUSSEL/Kunsten Festival des Arts 4th-7th May 2003<br />
BN.#05 BERGEN/International Festival Norway 22nd-25th May 2003<br />
P.#06 PARIS/Odeon Theatre de l'Europe avec le Festival d'Automne 18th-31st October ‘03<br />
R.#07 ROMA/Romaeuropafestival 21st-30th November 2003<br />
S.#08 STRASBOURG/Le Maillon Theatre de Strasbourg 7th-20th February 2004<br />
L.#09 LONDON/ London International Festival of Theatre May 2004<br />
M.#10 MARSEILLE/Les Bernardines avec le Theatre du Gymnase September 2004<br />
C.#11 CESENA/Societas Raffaello Sanzio October 2004<br />
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(1) Gonad: primary reproductive gland that produces reproductive cells (gametes). In males the<br />
gonads are called testes; the gonads in females are called ovaries.<br />
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