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