Biography
Muta Imago is a theatre company and an artistic research project born in 2006.
It lives between Rome and Brussels.
The company is led by Claudia Sorace, director and Riccardo Fazi, dramaturg and sound designer. It is made by all the people that has been, are and will be involved in each and every project. It is constantly looking for shapes and stories that put in relationship the sphere of imagination with that of the present reality: human, social and political. It creates shows, performances, installations, where space is that of relationship and conflict between human being and its time.
In 2009 the company has won the Premio Speciale Ubu, the Premio della critica from the Associazione Nazionale dei Critici di Teatro and the Prize DE.MO./Movin’UP. In the same year Claudia Sorace has won the Premio Cavalierato Giovanile della Provincia di Roma and the International Prize Valeria Moriconi as “Future of the stage”.
In 2011 Claudia Sorace was awarded best director in Tehran’s XXIX Fadjr Festival.
From 2015 the company has been recognized and financed by the Ministero dei Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo as “Under 35” theatre production organization.
In 2016 Muta Imago realized the sound performance and radio piece Antologia di S. (production Santarcangelo Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza / Rai Radio Tre / Tre Soldi), the show Polices! by Sonia Chiambretto (production Festival Short Theatre – Rome / Fabula Mundi), the opera L’arte e la maniera di affrontare il proprio capo per chiedergli un aumento (Production REC Festival – Reggio Emilia), the show Barlteby (production Festival Notafee – Viljandi).
Muta Imago’s productions have been hosted by the most important national festivals like RomaEuropa Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Vie Scena Contemporanea Festival, Biennale Teatro of Venice, Santarcangelo International Festival of the Arts, Inteatro Festival, Bassano Opera Festival, Biennale dei Giovani Artisti d’Europa e del Mediterraneo; and in various international festivals like Premiéres Festival (Strasbourg), Festival International des Brigittines (Bruxelles), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival Cyl (Salamanca), Sirenos Festival (Vilnius), Mot Festival (Skopje), Fadjr Festival (Teheran), Bipod Festival (Beirut), Clipa Aduma Festival (Tel Aviv), Unidram Festival (Potsdam), Temps d’Images (Cluj-Napoca, Budapest), Teatro/Theater: Italienischer Theaterherbst (Berlin), Escrita Na Pasaigem (Evora), Na Strastnom (Moscow), Sirenos Festival (Vilnius), Mot Festival (Skopje), Festival Notafee (Viljandi).
