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Inspired by the controversial ILVA steelworks in Taranto, Italy, Made in ILVA – The Contemporary Hermit, is more than a simple lesson in politics. In fact, it spins a wider tale of a dystopian present where the man-made is replacing nature; as we are told in the disembodied opening monologue, clouds are being created and…
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All theatre is physical, but some theatre is more physical […], [just like] this writhing, sweaty, angry solo performance by Nicola Pianzola of the Instabili Vaganti theatre company […]. […]the performance deals less in facts and figures than in imagery and gesture. On a carefully lit, very small acting area, Pianzola rocks back and forth…
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THE title of this solo show used to be the proud slogan for a huge steel plant in Southern Italy. But as Nicola Pianzola puts his own body through the mill of an unrelentingly physical performance, he voices the appalling human cost of production there: injuries, illnesses, even deaths. […] A metal frame which started…
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[…] Made in ILVA comes laden with prizes and anchored by a performance of punitive intensity by Nicola Pinzola. Subtitled The Contemporary Heremit, the piece was inspired by truly scandalous conditions at an Italian steelworks. The impressively wiry Pinzola is both the embodiment of these real-life horrors and their brutally poetic mouthpiece. Instabili Vaganti’s production…
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Work, work, work. Never stopping, fighting to meet the productivity deadlines… That’s all there is – that and a fitful night’s sleep, dreaming terrible dreams, until it is time to get up and get back on the treadmill. That is the sum of a working man’s life. Surrounded on three sides by audience, a lone…
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The stark black and white image of a bleak and empty factory space is projected on to a square on the stage with the metal pillars that hold the stage lighting managing to look part of the scene. When lights dimly appear, performer Nicola Pianzola emerges from the dark as a faceless hooded figure whose…
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When one man can command the intensity of the theatrical experience just by flexing his sinewey muscles, we must find ourselves at the Parnassian peak of physical theater. Nicola Pianzola, of the experimental Instabili Vaganti company of Bologna, is just that man, & his hour of incantation-like speech & gymanastic movements is nothing but a…
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Quando un’opera teatrale nasce per rispondere a una problematica politica e viene analizzata anni dopo rispetto alla sua genesi, si aprono almeno due piani di lettura: quello civile e quello poetico. Il primo livello è più spesso, all’inizio, di maggior impatto del secondo. Se ad esempio uno spettacolo nasce per denunciare una determinata stortura sociale,…
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