POSPONED

Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT
Giuliano Scarpinato

All about Adam

concept, direction Giuliano Scarpinato
with Cristian Cucco
soundscape, lighting Giacomo Agnifili
dance dramaturgy consultant Alessandro Sciarroni
costumes Federico Firoldi
photos Margherita Caprilli, Antonio Ficai
production  Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale – focus CARNE
in collaboration with Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse
curatorship and distribution Natascia Sollecito Mascetti
winning project of the residency competition, “Toscana Terra Accogliente” (residential crossover: Straligut Teatro - Siena, Giallomare Minimal Teatro - Empoli, residency centre of the Toscana Armunia / Capotrave Kilowatt)
with thanks to Fattoria Vittadini

2024 - All about Adam

A man like many others, dressed in a black suit, dances on a pile of ashes and rubble. Perhaps it is his own, that of those who preceded him and became extinct, that of a civilisation. A lot of voices crowd around him: they seem to come from an old broken TV, from a delirious and obsessive zapping.

Between collapses and rises, shocks and suspensions, that man seeks a new road, his own. And a light, to illuminate it.

From the director’s notes: “A man would never write a book about the particular situation of being a male": So wrote Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 in her masterpiece Il secondo sesso (The Second Sex). Today, those words are no longer relevant: between essays and magazines, slogans and hypotheses on the crisis of the “traditional” concept of masculinity proliferate, seemingly urgently being rewritten and approached anew. If on the one side, it is sadly on the agenda in the news, crammed with episodes of violence and abuse, a masculinity toxic to itself and to others, at the other end of the spectrum it seems to stand out, a little backed into a corner, a male afflicted by fears, weakened in perspective, incredibly uncomfortable taking on responsibilities: even if only that of building a love. In a fragmented scenario, full of shadows and full of old and new stereotypes, the hypothesis recurs; that the evolution of the male is unable to keep up with continuous, rapid, media-driven resounding rise of the female gender. A new war of the sexes? The end of traditional roles? All about Adam is a dance-based investigation into the recent history of the male, specifically the Italian male, but is also the proposal of a new code to be re-established on the ruins of a legacy that, today, seems to speak little to us.

Giuliano Scarpinato is a director, author, actor,and pedagogue. After graduating in modern literature, he graduated from the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin. He has worked as an actor and performer directed by Emma Dante, Carlo Cecchi, John Turturro, Giancarlo Sepe, Andrea Baracco, Glauco Mauri, Cristina Pezzoli and others. In 2015 he made his debut as an author and director with the show, Fa’afafine, which was the winner of the Scenario Infanzia Award and the Eolo Award for best show for children and young people, then on tour for 5 years. Later, as dramaturg and director, he created: Elettra (by Hugo von Hoffmansthal), winning the Attilio Corsini Award; Alan e il mare; Se non sporca il mio pavimento - un mélo; ‘A supirchiaria, A+A. Storia di una prima volta (Eolo Award 2022 – mention for adolescent theatre); Favola Personale; Il tempo attorno; All about Adam. He won the 2021 Solinas Award with his first screenplay, La Gioia, written with Benedetta Mori and the collaboration of Chiara Tripaldi, which will become a film in autumn 2024.