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Cuocolo / Bosetti IRAA Theatre as he wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald “are the cutting edge of contemporary Australian performance.”
Their work has received many accolades from critics and the public in the International Festival from 26 nations.
Winners of numerous awards including UNESCO Awards, Green Room Award, MO Award and the prize Cavour their performances are presented in the houses or hotels where they live thus exposing intimate space and home to the viewer-visitor in search of an impossible, illegal geography of intimacy.
In their performances the theater and life, reality and fiction, actor and character overlap.
Founded in Rome in 1978 by Renato Cuocolo The IRAA Theatre has created a series of seven trilogies that have been presented in twenty-six countries on four continenti.Nel 1988, the company and ‘moved to Melbourne where and’ eventually became the leading Australian company innovation (Flag Company). Since 2012 he opened an office in Vercelli in Italy where, with the assistance of the Australia Council and some of the main Italian theater festival, has presented a series of new works and repertory.
The last work of the company were presented with success and critical interest in numerous festivals among which: Vienna Festival, Adelaide International Festival (2 editions), Melbourne International Arts Festival (4 issues), Sydney Olympic Art Festival (2 editions), Olinda Milan (2 editions), Contemporary Teatro Metastasio in Prato (6 issues), Festival of the Hills Torino Contemporary Creation (7 editions), A Theatre in the Houses Arlette (5 editions), Theatre of the Cough Genoa European Capital of Culture, the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, Es .Terni, International Festival of Andria, San Diego Contemporary Theatre, Lincoln Center New York, Cite ‘Paris, Calais Le Channel Scène Nationale, Goteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (2 editions), Waseda International Centre Tokyo.
Based on the elaboration of elements taken from their lives, Cuocolo / Bosetti build a series of shows in which reality and fiction overlap. Their work challenges the traditional separation between actor and character. It ‘an invitation to reconsider the boundaries between performance and reality, between art and life, fiction and autobiography.
Their work normally for a few spectators at a time, taking place in non-theatrical spaces: private houses and hotels where Cuocolo / Bosetti really live. The hotels and the houses are not sets but traps reality.
In June 2000, comes to Melbourne, in their home, The Secret Room. Scheduled for 24 replicates exceeds 1600, winning numerous international awards.
In 2004 he was presented as the central event of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, The Diary Project, a ‘obsession with memory. After keeping a diary for a year Cuocolo / Bosetti go to live for 16 days, without ever leaving, the Arts Centre, the largest theater in Melbourne, where 39400 people are going to attend the reading / staging of the diary.
In 2005 it was the turn of Private Eye, presented in two rooms of a hotel (The Grand Hyatt 24th, and 48th floor) for one spectator at a time. A show about identity, about the points of passage, on the precariousness of existence.
In 2009, The Persistence of Dreams. In an apartment completely obscured the viewer with a night vision device, which enables an uncertain vision, becomes part of a disturbing dream.
2011: Theatre on a line takes place entirely through a phone call between actor and spectator.
In 2012 was born in Vercelli in the true childhood home of Bosetti, Roberta back at home. The house is made from a birch cross from five yards for a show that examines the possibility / necessity of the return. In 2013 you leave the house to deal with the city, its streets, its contradictions, with The Walk, radio path led into the city.
For 2014 is in the works a version of the Cherry Orchard and work of Emily Dickinson.
LAST SHOWS
2000 Interior Sites Project. The Secret Room
2001 Interior Sites Project. Room of Evidence
2002 Interior Sites Project. Water Room
2003 The Sincerity of Events
2004 The Diary Project
2005 Private Eye
2007 The Nature of Things.
2009 The Persistence of Dreams. Part 1: Love me Tender
2010 The Persistence of Dreams. Part 2: The Sandman
2011 Theatre on a Line
2012 Roberta Back At Home
Rooms for Error 2013
2013 The Walk
MAJOR AWARDS
UNESCO Award for Research in Art, First Prize International Festival of Sitges Barcelona. Green Room Award for Best Entertainment (Australia), Major Organization Award for Best Performance for Innovation, 4 Nominations Green Room Award for Best Actress, Cavour Prize for contribution to ‘ Italian art abroad, Best Entertainment at the International Festival of the Olympics in Sydney. Included among the 10 best shows of the first twenty years of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON Cuocolo / BOSETTI
Paul Monaghan. Medea in contemporary Australian Theatre. University of London
Paul Clarkson. The first 20 years. MIFA. Melbourne
Edited by John Cameron. Changing Places. Longueville Book. Sydney
Various Authors. Performing Arts in Victoria. Arts Victoria. Melbourne
Various Authors. The Italian Migration. Coasit. Melbourne
Leonard Radic. Australian Contemporary Drama. Brandl & Schlesinger. Sydney
Cuocolo / Bosetti. The Secret Room. Arlette Books. Bologna
Raymond Gill. Scene Stealers. 20 year of the Melbourne Festival. The Age Magazine.
Mark Palladini The Contemporary Theatre in Italy, Rome
Raffaella Rossellini Settlement Body, Edizioni Sonda Turin
Gia Luca Favetto The Theatre of Life, D La Repubblica February 11, 2012
Laura Bevione Theatre in ca sa fact, Hystrio 2/2012
Since 2000 they are expressed, on Cuocolo / Bosetti, in the most flattering way heads of the international press overcoming the 2000 items.
“A theater that you do not forget, a great actress”
The Age Melbourne
“The jewel in the crown of Australian theater. Rigorous and exciting. One and only “
The Sydney Morning Herald
“A flute-like voice with the darkness within. Unforgettable “
On Friday The Republic
“Do not bother reading this review you run a book you”
Newsweek USA
“Renato Cuocolo has the visionary power of the nightmares of the best David Lynch”
Der Standard in Vienna
“This project reminds me of Ingmar Bergman and his relationship with Liv Ullman, meeting the same powers of observation, the same feeling, the same voltage to recreate a world of desires suspended. And ‘as if the theater became simultaneously cinematic and incredibly personal. “
University Los Angeles, Real Time
“An interesting and engaging performance that rests on a solid drama, a director who knows how to hit in the heart with simple gestures but full of meaning and an actress who can unravel the mystery dense that it weighs in the secret room of every human being.”
Corriere della Sera
