“Processo Galileo”: the world premiere at the LAC directed by Andrea De Rosa and Carmelo Rifici

Processo Galileo is the fruit of the writing of Angela Dematté and Fabrizio Sinisi, their first collaborative work, alongside playwright Simona Gonella. The work premieres at the LAC in Lugano.

The actors, the directors, the staging of Galileo process

A work of which they are protagonists:

• Luca Lazzareschi and Milvia Marigliano, actors with solid experience;
• Isacco Venturini, formerly in the cast of important productions;
• Catherine Bertoni de Laet, Giovanni Drago and Roberta Ricciardi.

The work makes use of an 'admittedly installation' staging by the scenographer Daniele Spanò, the luminous dramaturgy by Pasquale Mari, the sound project by GUP Alcaro and the costumes by Margherita Baldoni.

The result of an unprecedented artistic and productive collaboration in the theatrical scene, Processo Galileo was born from a singular coincidence: Andrea De Rosa, director of TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa, and Carmelo Rifici, artistic director of LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, were both working on the relationship between theater and science, a theme prompted by the recent pandemic crisis.

Taking note of the happy coincidence, the two directors, distant in training, styles and aesthetics, but similar in artistic sensibility, confronted each other by deciding to measure themselves against the experience of collective direction.

The writing of Galileo process

The work investigates the figure and the thought of the famous Tuscan scientist and does so starting from his life, from the acts of the trial he underwent and from the sentence of the Holy Inquisition, events that guided the writing work of the two authors. A dense writing, which develops the narration in three sequences, each of which corresponds to as many processes that, through temporal shifts, investigate the destinies and questions of the contemporary world.

A prologue , set in the historical past in which the abjuration takes place: the words of Galileo's trial in 1633, with its characters and its language, act as a starting point and a point of irradiation for the various themes at play – the relationship between science and power, tradition, conscience.

A present in which a young woman, a mother and an intellectual, is asked to write for a popular magazine about the new paradigm science is establishing today; the family mourning she is dealing with causes a short circuit with the conversations she has with a scientist and his mother, forcing her to embark on a broader journey that challenges her worldview. A future in which all realism crumbles and the characters become the voices of an invective against a Galileo who is no longer seen as merely the defendant in an ecclesiastical tribunal, but as the spokesperson for a historical and cultural process that has inextricably linked scientific research with technical prowess, forever welding a society's idea of ​​progress to the power of its technological devices.

Galileo's telescope thus becomes the instrument of a revolution which, which began in the XNUMXth century, projects the world into a future which is in many ways disturbing.

The director's notes by De Rosa and Rifici

"In first part (written jointly by the two authors ed), Angela - a young researcher who is our alter ego on the scene - analyzes the historical material that documents the trial of Galileo by the Inquisition, together with fragments of the Dialogue of maximum systems and to the beautiful and passionate letters that Virginia wrote from the convent to her father.

In the second (written by Dematté) Angela faces the dramatic attempt to reconcile her desire for knowledge with her being a daughter and a mother.

In the third (written by Sinisi), he finally gives voice to the philosophical and political concerns regarding a future in which “machines” will be an increasingly integral part of our lives.”

The replicas of the Galileo process

After the debut in Lugano, the show repeats

• in the offices of the TPE -Teatro Piemonte Europa co-producers at the Astra Theater in Turin from 12 to 20 November;
• at the Storchi Theater in Modena for Emilia Romagna ERT Theater / National Theater from 24 to 27 November;
• the tour continues from 2 to 4 December at the Fraschini Theater in Pavia;
• from 10 to 15 January at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler in Milan;
• January 17 at the Civic Theater of La Spezia; on 19 and 20 January at the Teatro Sociale in Brescia.

The focus The light of the shadow

Opened by Processo Galileo, the season dedicates an important exploration to the relationship between science and the performing arts, declining it in the thirteen appointments of the focus La luce dell'ombra - which gives the title to the entire season -, presented by the cultural mediation sector of the LAC in the scope of LAC edu. An important thematic nucleus, an area of ​​attention whose contents have been designed to suggest reflections and thoughts on a theme made even more urgent by the historical moment we are experiencing.

The focus opens on Tuesday 8 November at 18.30 pm with a meeting / conversation between Andrea De Rosa and Carmelo Rifici. On show evenings, from Monday 7 to Wednesday 9, the Refectory Hall hosts Sguardo su Galileo, an installation by Daniele Spanò which intends to bring the public closer to the Galilean universe and does so thanks to video projections, period documents, drawings, ancient books of character scientific.

The drawn story will be held on Wednesday 9 at 14.30 pm and 16.15 pm at the LAC. Stories to tell and animate, a double atelier dedicated to young spectators between the ages of 4 and 11, while on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 the USI designer from Cadro will carry out an extraordinary opening of its astronomical Planetarium. From 6 November to 10 March on the LAC website we will be able to see and review Scienza, a conversation between Fabiola Gianotti, director of CERN, and Paolo Giordano, writer of the Strega Prize, who in the autumn of 2020 inaugurated Liberal Arts, an exhibition created in collaboration with RSI Radiotelevisione. Swiss.

Igor Horvat and Zeno Gabaglio are the creators and interpreters of Da tucte your creatures a the quantum gaze - Traces of scientific revolutions and evolutions in literature, a cycle of readings that testify to the need to question the nature of our existence scheduled for Tuesday 15 November and Wednesday 6 December at 18.30 pm in Room 4.

Among the appointments of the cycle Science in a workmanlike manner, conceived by MASI Lugano and IBSA Foundation, Thursday 17 November at 18.30 pm Julius Von Bismarck, German artist, talks with Tamara VazquezSchroder, CERN scientist; the conversation is moderated by Monica Bello, curator and Head of Arts at CERN in Geneva. Thursday 1st December at 20.30 pm the stage of the LAC hosts Feeling Science. A theatrical experiment conceived by Angela Dematté and Simona Gonella and directed by Andrea Chiodi and by Gonella herself, in which nine scientists from the JRC Joint Research Center of the European Commission are protagonists.

Starting from the observation on the permeability of the body with respect to the media, with a particular reference to the smartphone, Wednesday 18.01 at 20.30 we will see CorpoMemory by AiEP, a choreographic work that intercepts the hybrid and post-organic identity of the contemporary condition.

The focus is completed by three appointments of the LuganoMusica season dedicated to the relationship between music and science: Thursday 17 November at 20.30 pm Diego Fasolis conducts I Barocchisti in an evening entitled 3/3 Anima baroque in which they will perform The art of fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, universally considered one of the peaks of contrapuntal polyphony in the history of music; Saturday 11 February at 20.30 pm the Diotima Quartet is the protagonist of Romanticism and new music, a concert that pays homage to György Ligeti on the centenary of his birth. For the EAR Electro Acoustic Room review, a project by Spazio 21 of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, on Friday 10 March at 17 pm (repeat 18.30 pm and 20 pm) we will see Cenere, a work directed and composed by Nadir Vassena on texts by Fabio Pusterla, in which Anahì is the protagonist. Traversi, a well-known and dear face to the LAC.