TEATRO DEL LEMMING CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI PRODUZIONE E RICERCA

CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI PRODUZIONE E RICERCA

T E AT R O D E L L E M M I N G

BIOGRAPHY - 1987/1997

• Teatro del Lemming was born in Rovigo in 1987 from the encounter between
  Massimo Munaro, director and composer, and Martino Ferrari, director and
  scenographer.

• The first performances (beginning from 1987 with Frammenti, throughout works
  like Faust, Galileo, Cinque sassi, La città chiusa) put together, inside original
  narrative structures, only the evocative aspects of theatrical language.

• In October 1993 died Martino Ferrari. Festival Opera Prima, an experimental
  theatre festival directed by Teatro del Lemming from 1994, was dedicated to him.
  For the important activity of the festival, in 1996 the group won the special UBU
  Prize “Giuseppe Bartolucci” from a jury presided by the reviewer Franco Quadri.

• From 1997 Teatro del Lemming is supported by Italian Ministry of Culture
  (MIBACT).

BIOGRAPHY - 1997/2000

• In1997, Lemming realizes a Teatralogy on myth and spectator, composed by the works: EDIPO-Tragedy
  of the senses for one spectator (1997), DIONISO - Tragedy of theatre (1998), AMORE E PSICHE- a tale
  for two spectators (1999), ODISSEO- travel in theatre and, as post-faction to this project, A COLONO-
  wishing ritual for only one spectator (2001), L’ODISSEA DEI BAMBINI-travel in theatre for 20 children of
  all ages (2003).

• These works represent a development, that take the group into a fresh and exiting research
  characterized by direct, sensorial and dramaturgic involvement of spectators. Teatro del Lemming
  called this original poetics “The spectator’s theatre”.

• To these work were given hospitality by the most important Italian festivals (Santarcangelo, Volterra,
  Armunia, Polverigi, Drodesera, Crisalide, ecc.) and theatre (Teatro Valle and Quirino in Rome, Teatro
  dell’arte and Franco Parenti in Milan, Gobetti in Turin, Teatro della Tosse in Genova, ecc.) In 2000
  Lemming is called in Marsiglia at the Italo-France days promoted by ETI and ONDA as represented of
  Italian theatre.

• In that years there are a lot of reviews on the group: from the first page of LA STAMPA, to LA
  REPUBBLICA, IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA, IL SOLE 24 ORE, IL MESSAGGERO, IL TEMPO, IL MATTINO,
  ecc, and also Radio1, Radio2, Radio3; articles about Lemming are presented also in magazines as
  L’ESPRESSO, PANORAMA, VIAGGI or D DI REPUBBLICA, ROLLING STONES...

BIOGRAPHY - 2002/2007

• In 2003 died Roberto Domeneghetti, one of the main protagonist of Lemming’s
  activity.

• In 2006 Lemming, after four years of hard work, finished a spectacle on Dante’s
  Divina Commedia, that the group called NEKYIA-sea journey by night. Hell,
  Purgatory, Paradise. The production was dedicated to Roberto Domeneghetti
  (promotional video: https://vimeo.com/83494548).

• This project starts a new artistic research, moving the focus from the single
  spectator to a small community: how theatre can build community, a concept so
  far from our nowadays life? The challenge is to think about theatre as the place of
  a collective rite.

• On October 2011 the first part of Nekyia, HELL, was performed at the Festival
  Internacional de Teatro de Ourense (FITO) and in 2015 at the International
  Festival of Performing Arts TEATR A PART in Poland.

BIOGRAPHY - 2008/2012

• In march 2009, Teatro del Lemming debuts with the performance
  ANTIGONE, co- produced by Biennale of Venice. ANTIGONE is a
  performance without the limitation of the number of the spectators, that
  are still involved inside the event: here they are the chorus and, at the
  beginning, they have to decide to line up with Antigone or with Creonte.

• In september 2010 Teatro del Lemming produced AMLETO (without the
  limitation of the audience), first part of a Shakespeare's trilogy. Amleto is
  a reflection over the relation between the individual (Hamlet) and power
  (the danish court) - promotional video: https://vimeo.com/82289710.

• In July 2012 Amleto was performed at GDANSK SHAKESPEARE
  FESTIVAL in Poland, while in 2013 it won the Silver Snowflake as best
  performance at SARAJEVO WINTER FESTIVAL.

BIOGRAPHY - 2011/2015

• In 2011 Teatro del Lemming realized L'EDIPO DEI MILLE. L'Edipo dei
  Mille is a pedagogical- performative project that involved some young
  actors, prepared by two long workshops, that are divided in groups
  leaded by one Lemming’s actor and realized the performance Edipo
  simultaneously in more spaces of the same city.

• L'Edipo dei Mille is a challenge to theatrical system: how a performance
  for one spectator at time can reach a big number of spectators?

• The first part of the project was realized in Venice in collaboration with
  Fondazione di Venezia, Municipality of Venice and University Ca'
  Foscari. The second part was realized in Bassano in 2012 inside
  Bassano Opera Estate. The third part was realized in Vicenza in 2015 in
  collaboration with the Municipality of Vicenza.

BIOGRAPHY - 2013/2015

• In 2013 the Group realizes two productions: a chamber opera for seven
  instruments, four singers and seven actors, titled SOGNO DENTRO SOGNO
  and realized in collaborazione with Conservatories of Rovigo and
  Castelfranco Veneto and with the support of Fondazione Cariparo
  (promotional video: https://vimeo.com/83916557).

• The second production, titled JULIET AND ROMEO – LETTERS FROM THE
  LIQUID WORLD represents the second part of the Shakespearian Trilogy,
  and was realized in collaborazione with the Municipality of Venice and the
  Venice Fundation.

• JULIET AND ROMEO has been presented with great success in Italy
  (Carnival of Venice, Bassano Opera Estate, ecc...) and in Europe, creating big
  interest especially in teenager audience (promotional video: https://
  vimeo.com/327449793).

BIOGRAPHY - 2016/2018

• In 2016, Teatro del Lemming debuts with W.S. TEMPEST, last
  part of the Shakespearian Trilogy. The debut of the performance
  is realized in the Basilica Palladiana, during the Festival
  Conversazioni del Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza. Is dedicated to the
  debut of the performance an episode of Retroscena - I segreti del
  teatro. W.S. TEMPEST has been presented in Italy and in Europe
  (promotional video: https://vimeo.com/163515434).

• From 2017, Teatro del Lemming is working on LE
  METAMORFOSI of Ovidio, a production that is going to end in
  an immersive theatre performance for a small group of
  spectator.

THE TRAINING METHOD

• Teatro del Lemming has developed an original training method
  called The Five Senses of the Actor.

• The works of the company are based on the sensorial and
  dramaturgical involvement of the audience and so the actor has
  to be a guide for the spectator: his role is to be trusted by the
  spectator and, to obtain this trust, he must listen, adapt himself
  and dialogue with the spectator.

• These elements are the foundations of actors’ training and are
  the material of the workshop done by Teatro del Lemming (video
  material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWlE59kc-9w).

THE MANAGEMENT

• Since 2008, Teatro del Lemming manages and directs Teatro
  Studio of Rovigo, a theatre of the Municipality where Teatro del
  Lemming programs a theatrical season, workshops, meetings and
  debates around contemporary theatre

• One of the features of Teatro del Lemming is that it preserve the
  work as a theatrical company: each member of the company is at
  the same time an actor and a member of the organizational staff.

• It means that each actor deals with a specific aspect of the
  company’s management: organization, press office,
  administration, communication, promotion, international
  development, technical management.