Thursday, 15th September | 21.15
LA PELANDA | STUDIO 1 | 55′
theatre
OHT | Office for a Human Theatre
Self-portrait with two friends
concept, directing, set-design Filippo Andreatta
by and with Charles Adrian Gillott, Patric Schott
ph Fabio Cella
stage manager Rosario Fontanella
producer Laura Marinelli
administrator Chiara Fava
a production by OHT, Caritro Foundation, Provincia Autonoma di Trento
in collaboration with Regione Trentino Alto-Adige artistic residency Italian Institute of Culture of Vienna, Inteatro, Centrale Fies
www.officeforahumantheatre.org
Adrian and Patric, probably the same character at different stages of decay, endure their cathartic adventure and their rejection to fail nudges their lives on the brick of a genuine sense of humour and of despair. The project inquires the failure not only through its hilarious and cynics aspects but also for the deep sadness that every failure includes. According to sociologist Richard Sennett, failure is our contemporary taboo: we are reluctant to consider failures as something belonging to our everyday life. In an elliptic, and auto-ironic way, we attempt to revitalise our artistic failures by making a performance that will never be a masterpiece but, more genuinely, will be something true: a self-portrait with two friends.
BIOGRAPHY
OHT was established in 2008, after winning Nuove Sensibilità, a national prize for young theatre directors at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, and since then it has achieved national and international collaborations including, more recently:
– The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation (USA): “squares do not (normally) appear in nature” a now on-work project on Josef Albers;
– Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK): “buzz” a vide installation included in the exhibition “Twixt Two World” curated by Gaia Tedone;
– MAXXI-Museo delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (IT): “Delirious New York” (2010) is included in the exhibition “Open City – Open Museum” curated by Hou Hanru as his first exhibition as director of the roman institution in 2014;
– MADRE and Teatro Pubblico Campano, Naples (IT): in 2009 the installation/performance “Bios Unlimited” has been shown in connection with the collection of the museum;
– Palazzo Grassi, Venezia (IT): installation work “Real-Time Polaroid” (2011-2012).
Finally, Centrale Fies and MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, have
frequently been partners of various of the mentioned projects and many others, either for productions or for premieres.
Filippo Andreatta BA in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, and MA in Performing and Visual Arts at IUAV, University of Venice. In 2009, he decided against accepting the invitation of the Royal CSSD, University of London, for attending an MA in Performance Practices and Research as he worked as actor and assistant director for two opera productions with the Berlin-based ensemble Nico and the Navigators For two years, he has been advisor of the City of Rovereto for the theatre season and he has
launched a programme of Contemporary Theatre. In December 2012, he is appointed set-designer
for the opera productions of Centro S.Chiara in Trento. In 2014, he is acting for the Belgian company Peeping Tom at the La Biennale di Venezia and since 215 he’s co-curator of Drodesera Festival at Centrale Fies.
Since finishing his studies in Paris at the École Jacques Lecoq and the École Philippe Gaulier, Charles Adrian Gillott has worked extensively in devised theatre and performance for companies based in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. He is a key member of the Berlin-based ensemble Nico And the Navigators and an associate artist of London’s saltpeter productions. He is currently touring Fringe Festivals as his alter-ego Ms Samantha Mann in her new show Stories About Love, Death
& A Rabbit.
Patric Schott was born in 1971 in Freiburg, Germany. In consequence of a set-design assistance he is proposed to become an actor and starts to have different engagements at state and municipal theatres;
Galli Theater’ Freiburg, Badisches Staatstheater’ and the Schauspielhaus Bonn’. In addition he takes part in numerous movie and TV productions. In August 1998 he moves to Berlin where he develops the slide performance DIADEM’ and becomes a member of Nico and the Navigators. He participates as an actor in several productions. From 2008 he work with theatre de chambre in different plays. Since 2010 he works with OHT. In 2014, he works in “Dachau Prozesse” by Karen Breece, a performance played in the original concentration camp.
Giorno e Ora:15th SEPTEMBER | h.21.15
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