Ubu Award 2018 for the Best Italian Show of the Year / Best of BE Festival (UK).

 

 

In between mass distractions and digital mutations, we move about in an environment augmented by the media. Overloaded by information we live in a state of constant alertness that our ancestors only experienced in battle. The background noise grows all over the planet.

 

Shouldn’t we learn to be quieter to try and understand what is worth paying attention to?

 

Overload is a theatre show which takes on a hypertext structure. As a speech is being delivered, performers relentlessly offer links to hidden contents, which in turn trigger possible actions and images. The audience can choose either to ignore these links - and continue to listen to the speech - or to activate them. This will force them to shift their focus away from the main stage, and get lost in a maze of distractions - in an endless pursuit of fragments which very much resembles our daily routine.

 

 

The keynote speaker at the heart of it all is US writer David Foster Wallace......

 

Sotterraneo theatre company began working in Florence in 2005. They aim to investigate the linguistic possibilities of theatre - a place characterized by a physical and intellectual time, both old and hopelessly contemporary. Sotterraneo's avant-pop approach seeks to narrate our times whilst striking a balance between the collective imagination and the most unconventional thinking.

 

 

On Stage: Sara Bonaventura, Claudio Cirri, Lorenza Guerrini, Daniele Pennati, Giulio Santolini

Dramaturgy: Daniele Villa

Light Designer: Marco Santambrogio

Graphic Designer: Isabella Ahmadzadeh

International Promotion: Giulia Messia

Production: Sotterraneo

Coproduction: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II nell’ambito di APAP - Performing Europe 2020, Programma Europa Creativa dell’Unione Europea

Contribution: Centrale Fies_art work space, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG with the support of Comune di Firenze, Regione Toscana, Mibact, Funder 35, Sillumina-copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura

 

Artistic residencies: Associazione Teatrale Pistoiese, Tram-Attodue, Teatro Metastasio di Prato, Centrale Fies_art work space, Dialoghi-Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin, La Corte Ospitale–progetto residenziale 2017, Teatro Studio/Teatro della Toscana, Teatro Cantiere Florida/Multiresidenza FLOW.

 

Sotterraneo is part of the Fies Factory, of the European Network Apap-Performing Europe 2020 and is resident at Associazione Teatrale Pistoiese Production Centre.