Venue: Auditorium Biagio Marin, Via Marchesini, 31 - Grado
Website: https://ertfvg.it/spettacoli/bestiario-idrico/
Friday 4 December – 8.45 pm
performed in italian
Hydraulic structures tend to become invisible, blending into the environment that surrounds them. This happens with earthen embankments and floodplains, but also with pumping stations, canals, reservoirs and even dams.
The Italian landscape has become agricultural through layers of settlements spanning centuries. Cities and towns, too, have been established (and relocated…) over the centuries. Industries, however, have only been around for just over a century. Hydraulic works have accompanied each of these developments; not only the aqueducts from Roman times onwards, but also the diversions and embankments – sometimes imposing in scale – land reclamation projects, hydroelectric reservoirs and drainage networks. The Italian landscape is man-made, yet the network of hydraulic works eludes our perception.
Is a bridge a road or a hydraulic structure? Are a toilet or a tap elements of civil engineering or the end points of hydraulic works? How different would the agricultural landscape be without the circulation of irrigation water and without canals and pumps to drain excess rainwater?
Nothing we see is definitive. Climate change forces us to consider radical changes to the landscape we know so well: we can either endure them or shape them. There are more than 6,000 rivers in Italy, and many more watercourses that do not have the right to a name but form part of river basins. Europe has 110 river basins; Italy has 7. Each contains hundreds of watercourses of varying importance, yet all equally strategic, alongside groundwater, within the national water balance.
A production by Marco Paolini
written with Giulio Boccaletti
dramaturgical collaboration: Marta Dalla Via, Diego Dalla Via, Michela Signori
starring Marco Paolini
and Patrizia Laquidara
Directed by Fratelli Dalla Via
Assistant director: Teresa Vila; music by Giuseppina Casarin; set elements by Mirko Artuso; technical and sound direction by Piero Chinello; lighting and set design by Michele Mescalchi; lighting by Nicola Munerati
Technical assistance: Città Invisibile
graphic design and stage photos: Gianluca Moretto
production: Michela Signori
in co-production with Jolefilm and Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale
Information
tel: 0431 85834 / biglietteria@ertfvg.it
Municipal Library
tel: 0431 82630
Culture Office
Tel: 0431 898269
Tickets and advance sales
TICKETS:
Full price €24.00 / Concessions €21.00 / Concessions for over-65s, under-25s and ERT season ticket holders.
GRADO THEATRE TICKETS:
Single seat €5,-
Free admission for theatre season ticket holders
ADVANCE BOOKING:
Online from Monday 19 October at ertfvg.it
At the Auditorium two days before the performance from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm and on the day of the performance from 5.30 pm until the start of the performance.