MADE IN ILVA

  • MADE IN ILVA

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    What is more topical in Italian society than the ILVA tragedy? The biggest steelworks of Europe was a dream of prosperity and employment for an entire land. Who does not remember the advertisement “Made in Italy, made in Ilva”? Now it is a nightmare called environmental damage, a poisoned land and the impossible choice between…

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  • Review By Lucy Ribchester for Festmag

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    There comes a point in the middle of Made in ILVA where you feel as if you might be going mad yourself. Hallucinating the fact that performer Nicola Pianzola keeps repeating over and over “the brutalisation” while hammering the steel set with his palms (which are surely by now raw). Delirious with the metal rhythms…

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  • Katie Mitchell for The Public reviews

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    […] In Taranto 30% of the population have lung tumors while the factory is still thriving financially. Therefore the piece voices anti-capitalist views highlighting how society accepts to sweep issues like these under the carpet or under a pile of ever-growing dead bodies. Through repetitive mechanical movements Pianzola puts his body through pure exhaustion and…

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  • Awards

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    FITIC – International Indipendent Theatre Festival of Constanta – 2016 Romania Jury Award With the show MADE IN ILVA Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 Total Theatre Awards Nomination With the show MADE IN ILVA Civil Commitment Theatre Festival Cassino OFF 2014 Teatri di Vita Award With the show MADE IN ILVA Antonio Landieri Civil Commitment Theatre 2013 Napoli…

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