From 14 to 16 April 2023 meetings, debates, music and performance dedicated to the memory of Franca Rame, ten years after her death. Organised by Fondazione Dario Fo Franca Rame in collaboration with Fondazione Barba Varley at the Free University of Alcatraz. (Gubbio-Perugia)
PROGRAMME
Friday 14 April
– from 5pm, arrival and accommodation
– 8pm, dinner
– 9.30 pm, concert as a tribute to Franca with Selene Capitanucci and Simone ‘Poca’ Matteucci
Saturday 15 April
– from 8 to 10, breakfast
– 10.30, meeting with Jacopo Fo: The origins of Franca and the theatre legacy of the Rame family
– 11.30, meeting with Eugenio Barba: The involuntary injustice suffered by Franca in the evaluation of historians
– 1 pm, lunch
– 3.30 pm, work demonstration by Julia Varley
– 5.30 pm, roundtable: Analysis and hypothesis of action to give Franca back the role she deserves. Moderator: Anna Bandettini
Participants: Mattea Fo, Julia Varley, Gabriella Canova, Jacopo Fo, Eugenio Barba and Marco Marchetti.
– 8.30 pm, dinner
– 9.30 pm, video: “THE NAMELESS”, by Francesco Paolucci, Production by Claudio La Camera
Sunday 16th
– from 8 to 10, breakfast
– departure by 11.
Registration is compulsory and numbers are limited.
REGISTRATION and information:
info@alcatraz.it or call +39 0759004106 from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm
A DAY FOR FRANCA RAME
After almost three years of suspension of its face-to-face educational activities, the free University of Alcatraz, located between Gubbio and Perugia, reopens with a new formula focused on groups and events. As the first activity of this new season, it presents a two-day event entirely dedicated to the personality of Franca Rame, organised by Fondazione Fo Rame in collaboration with Fondazione Barba Varley.
The idea of the two Fondazioni confronting each other and joining forces is rooted in the direct relationship between the artists they represent. These artists had several occasions to cross paths in their activity, which made them protagonists of a revolutionary theatrical season of the twentieth century.
Fondazione Barba Varley – established to actively promote the commitment to the causes and values that motivated Julia Varley’s and Eugenio Barba’s life in Odin Teatret – and Fondazione Fo Rame – created to keep alive the memory of the initiatives and activities of Dario Fo and Franca Rame – clearly show affinities of purpose and common characteristics. The great sensitivity towards all types of marginalisation, the firm belief that theatre is a form of politics, the capacity to believe in the impossible and the will to pursue goals represented by social and cultural solidarity, are just some of the features that distinguish both Fondazioni. Hence the idea of collaborating arises almost naturally, with the aim of continuing to merge art and culture with a concrete political and social commitment, also considering the most peripheral realities.
You are all invited to participate in this first meeting dedicated to the personality of Franca Rame.
Registration is compulsory and numbers are limited.
ORGANISER: Fondazione Fo Rame in collaboration with Fondazione Barba Varley at the Free University of Alcatraz
