Synopsis
The #SIneNOmine Company, active since 2012 within the Spoleto Prison, presents a new production dedicated to Samuel Beckett, conceived in dialogue with the theme of “Roots,” which runs throughout the entire programme.
The project interweaves some of the author’s most emblematic works – from Waiting for Godot to Endgame, from Krapp’s Last Tape to The Unnamable – into a choral, immersive structure performed by inmates, emerging from a theatrical workshop conducted within the prison.
The performance is deeply rooted in the history of prison theatre, whose founding figure can be identified in Rick Cluchey. While incarcerated at San Quentin, Cluchey was profoundly struck by Waiting for Godot, which he heard from his cell in 1957, recognizing in Beckett’s vision of waiting a reflection of the condition of imprisonment. From that experience arose the San Quentin Drama Workshop, the first prison theatre company in the world, and a path of personal transformation that led Cluchey to parole and to a direct collaboration with Beckett.
In Italy, the dialogue between theatre and prison found a pivotal moment in 1982, when the Festival dei Due Mondi hosted Sorveglianza speciale by Jean Genet, performed with the participation of inmates from Rebibbia prison. Since then, the Festival has continued to explore detention as a space for artistic inquiry and civic reflection. Since 2013, it has consistently hosted the work of #SIneNOmine, a company founded by the Associazione Teodelapio, distinguished by its radical and experimental approach grounded in collaborative writing with inmates.
Credits
Programma
with inmate actors, musicians, dancers, stage technicians, and technical staff of the #SIneNOmine Company directed by Giorgio Flamini
concept, text adaptation, direction Giorgio Flamini, Sara Ragni, Pina Segoni
dramaturgy based on texts by Samuel Beckett (Rockaby, Happy Days, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Waiting for Godot, Not I, Ohio Impromptu)
digital music creations Anna Flamini
choreography Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio, Serena Perna, Lorena Salis
with the dancers of Euno
scene and costumes by Maria Paola Buono, Giorgio Flamini
stage assembly and dismantling inmates and prison police officers
stage elements and props scenography workshop, second-level artistic course directed by teachers of IIS Sansi-Leonardi-Volta
digital music creations Anna Flamini
stage photography Vincenzo Porfilio
videomaker and audio recordings Giovanni Barchi
costumes and makeup #SIneNOmine
organizational secretary Gessica Vagnoli
production by Associazione Teodelapio and the Spoleto prison, with the support of Fondazione Francesca Valentina e Luigi Antonini and Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto
special thanks to Daniele Cipriani, Artistic Director of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; Bernardina Di Mario, Director of the Spoleto Prison; Pierpaolo Milanese, Commander of the Spoleto Prison; Nicola Borrelli, Deputy Commander; the Department of Penitentiary Administration (DAP); the Spoleto Prison; the Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi and its President Andrea Sisti, Mayor of the City of Spoleto; Debora Spinelli, Supervising Magistrate of Spoleto; Grazia Manganaro, former Supervising Magistrate of Spoleto; the Supervisory Office of Spoleto; the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation and Camillo Corsetti Antonini; Associazione Teodelapio; Associazione Atalante; Cinema Sala Pegasus; Pietro Carraresi, Head of the Educational Area and all educators and treatment staff; all personnel of the Spoleto Penitentiary Police; Inspector Sandro Scarponi; the officers and inspectors assigned to workshops, the MOF, schools, the Directorate and Command secretariat, and the registry office; the officers and inspectors of the prison sections; CESP – Network of Prison Schools and Anna Grazia Stammati; IIS Sansi-Leonardi-Volta and Mauro Pescetelli; IPSEOASC G. De Carolis and Roberta Galassi; Francesco Corrias, Lucia Napoli, and the singers of the Ad Cantus Choir; Aleandro Pennella, head craftsman of the prison carpentry workshop; the Festival press office, the editorial staff and Laura Scolari; the Festival stagecraft team and Ottorino Neri; Monica Trevisani; and the entire staff of the Spoleto Festival.
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