Performance

  • Review for The Herald

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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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  • Review by Donald Hutera for The Times

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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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  • Review by Drothy Max Prior for Total Theatre

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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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  • Review by Irene Brown for EdimburghGuide

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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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  • Review by Damo Bullen for Mumble Theatre

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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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  • Recensione di Matteo Tamborrino per Krapp’s Last Post

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    Quisieron enterrarnos pero no sabían que éramos semilla” (“Desaparecidos#43 – Acción Global por Ayotzinapa”) «Una drammaturgia originale, bilingue, fatta non solo di parole ma anche di azioni fisiche, suoni, canti, immagini che mettono insieme più voci, quelle voci che ancora adesso si uniscono al grido “Todos somos Ayotzinapa!”. Un grido che continua ad animare le…

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  • Recensione in catalano di Miquel Gascon per Voltar i Voltar

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    Un canvi de plans d’últim moment, ens va permetre diumenge anar fins a La Vilella per veure aquest espectacle de la companyia italiana Instabili Vaganti, que ha ofert quatre representacions en aquesta sala. DESAPARECIDOS #43 vol donar veu al dramàtic esdeveniment sobre els 43 estudiants de Ayotzinapa desapareguts en Iguala, a Mèxic el 26 de…

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  • Recensione in catalano di Oriol Osan per Nuvol

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    El rapte i l’assassinat (alguns diuen que cremats vius) de 43 estudiants mexicans el 26 de setembre del 2014 a Aynotzinapa va commocionar no només el país asteca, sinó tot el món. L’horror també va arribar a Itàlia, on la companyia Instabili Vaganti va decidir retre’ls homenatge perquè ningú els oblidés. El resultat, Desaparecidos #43,…

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  • Recensione in catalano di Neus Mònico Fernández per Teatre Barcelona

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    “Antes de que nos olviden haremos historia. No andaremos de rodillas. El alma no tiene la culpa. Antes de que nos olviden” La companyia Inestabili Vaganti torna a La Vilella amb un espectacle punyent, incòmoda, que remou. Una proposta que ens diu: fora vendes als ulls. Prou mentides. Prou ofegar veus. Prou aquí no passa…

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