Inspired by Mark Rothko’s refusal to complete commissioned work in New York’s Four Seasons restaurant. A highly stylized, visually stunning exploration of absence, negation, and solitude.
Dante's 'La Divina Commedia' is a poem in three parts about a journey to hell, purgatory and finally, paradise. Romeo Castellucci created his own free adaptation of Purgatorio on the scene of Chateaublanc in Avignon (France). A mother, a father and their son live in a bourgois appartment where a...
A human figure dressed as a woman is anatomically exposed by means of a series of photographic poses. The show is seeped from beginning to end in darkness, an allusion to the photographic negative.
Famed Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other—a clash between the ethereal and the obscure, the power of rhetoric and language stripped to its...
Divided in two parts, this episode focuses first on a Mother and a Child. The second episode focuses on Saint Paul, involved in a cruel gesture regarding the word and its ability to communicate.
Mozart's Requiem - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2019
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Relive an unforgettable musical and theatrical experience with this singular production of Mozart's Requiem, staged by the defiantly nonconformist director Romeo Castellucci at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2019. Raphaël Pichon leads his acclaimed ensemble Pygmalion, whose impeccable...
A new born child sitting on the stage, unaware of the place wich surrounds him, together with a mask which is teaching him the alphabet. The scene shifts constantly between fiction and the reality of fiction, swapping the point of view between the stage and the stalls.
Daphne lives in a world that is foreign to her. She is the embodiment of nature and finds human behaviour and desire alien. Apollo and Leucippus, both of whom desire Daphne, attend the feast of Dionysus. Leucippus puts his plan into action: Daphne abandons herself to the celebrations. Too late,...
The Mother drags a lifeless girl from the bed in wich she was sleeping. Sloth, mortal sadness, is the word wich seals this woman’s destiny as she receives blows, luminous flows and sound stalagmites full in the face.
In an environment coloured with talcum powder, the Soldiers of Conception escort a Child-Judge as he walks backwards across the set. When he bumps into the Tables of the Law, reality is overturned and all interiors becomes exterior.
The viewer is led through 2 adjoining rooms: a white anti-chamber that leads onto a very high, black room via a small door. In the Paradise of Cesena church, we are suspended in a region that is inaccessible to the human eye, where what can be seen is shown as a mark in the visible area.
Dante's 'La Divina Commedia' is a poem in three parts about a journey to hell, purgatory and finally, paradise. Romeo Castellucci created his own free adaptation on the gigantic stage of the Cour d'Honneur in Avignon, in the palace where the first French pope, Clement V, resided. The pope allows...
Mussolini is surrounded by pictures torn from a history-generated dream which gradually merge into everyday reality. Harlequin is the servant of two masters. The permanence of the clergy in the Eternal City is placed under a great bell which swings without a clapper.
