RAG-DOLL PRODUZIONI
in cooperation with
La Fabbrica dell' Attore
present
*** Internautilus ***
By Adriano Vianello and Francesco Verdinelli.
written by Adriano Vianello
with
Roberta Lerici, Emanueale Barresi,
Francesca Franceschini, Gabriella Marsili,
and
many other guests in every performance.
Directed by
Adriano Vianello and Francesco Verdinelli.
Original Music: Francesco Verdinelli.
Scenic Designer: Sebastiano Vianello.
Costumes: Elisabetta Bertini.
Choreography: Laura Talluri.
Internet link by Flashnet
- TEATRO ``IL VASCELLO'' -- ROME, January 2-28, 1996.
- at 9:30 pm. -- Italy time.
- Showing also on Internet -- http://www.internautilus.fnc.net
- For reservations at Teatro Vascello call (+) 396 - 588-1021
- **Internautilus** is perhaps the first attempt to link theater
and Internet,
- two forms of communication that seem to be very far apart.
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- Background.
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- WHY? Because Internet and The Web reach out for each and every
computer in
- the world, but still not everybody fully appreciates its
potential. Internet
- is going to be our new reality, our everyday life. We will soon
change our
- daily routines. Let's start right now to get to know this new media.
- But, we can never leave behind our past and traditions. *Theater*
is always
- a fundamental reference for the western culture. And it might
well be the
- ideal place to start exploring the Internet.
- **Internautilus** is an interactive show. The audience interacts
with the
- development of the tale. In two ways:
- The show includes selected contributions from the Internet, sent from
- everywhere in the world: music, pictures, texts. The show
interacts with
- Internet while actors and audience are sailed through the web, in
real time.
- And somebody in Tokyo, New York, Toronto or Melbourne can link in
the web
- and watch **Internautilus** in real time, performing for a small audience
- at the ``Vascello'' theater. Thousands of people, miles away,
might be with
- us in Rome, for the opening night, into the following nights.
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- The Show.
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- The show is traditional in its development. Short, about one
hour. For a
- small audience, twenty to twenty five people in the house. In
seven legs,
- or separate compartments, located in a dark passage. The audience will
- move, like in a journey, navigating from one compartment to the other.
- -- Navigating the web. Seven legs, seven minutes each. It is a trip
- out at sea: *leaving* the safety of the harbor, *sailing* into
the open
- sea, *the calm*, *the storm*, *the shipwreck*. Temporary safety on
- *the raft* and the final swim into *the unknown land*.
- The key character, the guide of the journey can only be Ulysses,
the great
- sailor of our literature. And the key symbol of the voyage is a passage,
- *the passage* through the present into the future, into the new millennium,
- about to start.
- This is the plot. It is the tale of a few sailors, the audience at
- Il Vascello Theater. (Vascello means {\em boat} in Italian). They
- go across the Ocean, beyond the unknown, into the third millennium.
- Guided by a reborn Ulysses. Witnessed by a potential crowd of Web's
- browsers.
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- Open Show.
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- **Internautilus** is work in progress. Always the same, always a little
- different. An open show, with some fixed moments, and pieces of theater
- that might change every night. Maybe a different guest every
night. An
- actor to play a classic piece, a musician with her instrument, a politician
- making a provocative statement . . . Or . . . anybody can show up on
- stage. Workers, property developers, children, old people, cab drivers
- . . . everybody is invited to make a statement about *the future*
. . . Or,
- . . . playwrites might write three minutes pieces for us,
thinking about
- the new year's eve of the year 2,000 . . .
- We'll win our bet when the show turns into a blend, a core of contributions
- from the outside, from the Web, and from the world.
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- Message.
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- What you've just read is our bottled message. We hope in the help,
- collaboration, and curiosity of many of you who happened to read
it. The
- show is about to start, everybody can join in to give it more life.
- Adriano Vianello and Francesco Verdinelli
- email: nautilus@flashnet.it
- RAG-DOLL produzioni
- phone: (+) (396) 3534-8780 -- (+) (396) 3540-1108
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Produzioni, 1997, 1998
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