“Fragile masculinity as a ticking time bomb” (Theaterkrant)
An ordinary family is stuck in a house. Not a big house, ordinary.
A family like so many, maybe not much money, just average.
They all need space for themselves.
How do you define that personal space?
Where does our commonality end?
Who are this ordinary family?
And how can you save the other if you cannot even save yourself?
A modern tragedy without an escape.
In the past two years, many families have fallen into financial difficulties, familial tensions have escalated.
The violence, the anger, and the social distance have increased.
Do we still have hope?
For Il disperato (The desperate), Wunderbaum explores how a person arrives at an act of desperation.
The question begs itself: when do we call something a monstrous act?
French playwright François Mauriac says:
What is that, a monster? I try to describe figures in which the sublime and the repulsive, the lowest impulses and the highest goals, are inextricably linked. Those are my monsters.
By
- Marleen Scholten
Acting
- Marleen Scholten
- Alessandro Riceci
- Ludovica Callerio
- Elisabetta Bruni
Dramaturgy
- Dafne Niglio
scenography
- Maarten van Otterdijk
Costume design
- Rosa Mariotti
Photography
- C. Trimboli
- Luca Chiaudano
Producer
- Wunderbaum
- Associazione TRAK
- Theater Rotterdam
Special thanks to
- RomaEuropa
- Zona K
- Arti e Spettacolo
- Tiziana Colla
- Paolo Aniello
- Paolo Giulini (criminoloog)
- Roberto Bezzi (verantwoordelijke afdeling educatie huis van Bewaring Milaan)
With the support of
- IntercettAzioni - Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia
- Residenza Spazio Nobelperlapace / Arti e Spettacolo L'Aquila
Past dates
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September 2024
29
Theater Rotterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
September 2024
29
Theater Rotterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
September 2024
28
Aftertalk
Theater Rotterdam -
September 2024
28
Theater Rotterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
September 2024
25
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome -
September 2024
24
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome -
July 2024
14
Kilowatt Festival
Sansepolcro (IT) -
October 2023
21
Frascati Amsterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
October 2023
20
Frascati Amsterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
October 2023
19
Frascati Amsterdam
(NL boventiteld) -
September 2023
30
FIT festival
Lugano, Zwitserland (première) -
September 2023
30
FIT festival
Lugano, Zwitserland -
February 2023
10
Zona K
Milaan -
February 2023
09
Zona K
Milaan -
November 2022
26
Teatro Arti e Spettacolo
L'Aquila -
November 2022
10
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome -
November 2022
09
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome
Il disperato, ‘The Desperate’, is the third performance by Marleen Scholten about the Italian human condition, which represents that of all of us. You have to be able to see it, and Marleen Scholten, who lives in Italy, sees it.” (De Groene Amsterdammer)
Current projects
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Die Hundekot-Attacke -
WUNDERBAUM plays LIVE (online it's a mess) -
Who is the real Italian?