BARTLEBY
American Tales is a project that combines three “tales for sounds and images” inspired by three famous stories, all written by american authors and connected by the theme of conflict. Bartleby is the second chapter of the American Tales trilogy: a new tale for sound and images based on the notorious book by Herman Melville. After To Build a Fire by Jack London, where the conflict between man and nature was staged, we decided to deal with the issue of the confrontation between man and society. The tale is told in first person by an elder lawyer presenting the story of the strangest man he has ever met: Bartleby, a scrivener he hired in his office who slowly ends up by changing his world. At the beginning the scrivener produces a great amount of work: he relentlessly copies documents, without ever stopping, not even just to eat. But one day, when asked to carry out a particular task, Bartleby answers with what will soon become his answer to any kind of request: “I would prefer not to.” From that moment on Bartleby begins to accomplish fewer and fewer tasks, until eventually stopping completely and doing nothing aside from occupying his small little corner in the lawyer’s office. http://www.mutaimago.com/en/racconti-americani-bartleby/
FARA UN FUOCO
American Tales is a project that combines three “tales for sounds and images” inspired by three famous stories, all written by american authors and connected by the theme of conflict. It’s nine o’ clock in the morning. The place is one of the coldest on earth. A man alone, accompanied only by his dog, walks through a land completely covered in snow, following the traces of a frozen stream. He has to reach the base camp and his friends, before dark. The temperature is low, minus sixty Chelsius degrees. In these conditions, common sense and popular’s knowing would suggest to move only in a group or to stand still, waiting for the temperature to rise again. But the man has decided to go anyway: he brings with himself only a couple of biscuits covered in fat and wrapped in a handkerchief. He has to constantly move, in order not to freeze, but at the same time he has to be careful to any single step he takes: with such a low temperature he can’t commit any mistake. But suddenly, it happens: the man puts one foot in a lie, breaking the thin layer of ice where he was walking and gets his foot wet. Sixty degrees Chelsius below zero. In order to survive he has to build a fire, quickly. http://www.mutaimago.com/en/racconti-americani-fare-un-fuoco/
THE RIVER
AMERICAN TALES
direction Claudia Sorace
musical dramaturgy and voiceover Riccardo Fazi
original music composition V. L. Wildpanner
video Maria Elena Fusacchia
production Muta Imago 2015/2017
American Tales is a project that combines three “tales for sounds and images” inspired by three famous stories, all written by american authors and connected by the theme of conflict.
Each one of this tales is presented through a stage installation built for the specific tale, a voiceover, a video and a sound score.
The willness is to create immersive experiences that aim to create a full over-identification between the spectators and the main carachters of the stories in order to rediscover the beauty of an oral dimension, the strength of a simple story-telling.
The tales can be presented not just in theatre space, but also in alternative places, like rooms, tunnels, art galleries, cinemas, enormous or small places, indoor or outdoor. They might be presented individually or all together, on the same day, one after the other or in different days.
There’s no limit of public or specific modes of fruition: these tales could be heard and seen standing on the grass, on a chair, alone, or together with a thousand people.
This work is about translating into a sound, video and musical language the tensions that inhabits London’s tale, its rythmic development, its movement, in order to activate in the spectator the same sensations of the tale’s main carachter.
We don’t want just to tell a story.
We want to be there, flesh and blood.
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