Ancient Curtains: from June 2 through October, ten appointments to discover and rediscover the Museum of Roman Ships in Nemi

Ancient Curtains: tales on the Stage of Time is a multidisciplinary project, conceived by the Museum of Roman Ships, directed by Daniela De Angelis, pertaining to the Regional Directorate National Museums Lazio, directed by Elisabetta Scungio, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Mobile Theater.

Headphone theater, traveling, site-specific with Mobile Theater for the enhancement of an emblematic place of our extraordinary cultural heritage: the Museum of Roman Ships, surrounded by the beautiful naturalistic setting of Lake Nemi.

The Museum represents a brilliant work of human ingenuity not only in its historical and archaeological content, but also in the building itself, an admirable work of design by Architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo. Conceived as a naval hangar fit to house the two ships of Emperor Caligula recovered in Lake Nemi in the 1930s, it offers the public an experience in evocative spaces, expanded by the natural area towards the lake.

In this context, "zero-impact" performances will be realized as the technical means employed are portable and self-powered instruments. In the time of individuality and solitude, in the desire-need for independent and exclusive listening paths, an experimental formula has been devised for the spectator-viewer through headphone listening and the use of digital technology for sound and dramaturgical paths.

They will be 10 events site-specific from 2 June at 27 October 2024: seven productions originals by Mobile Theater, commented on by walkabouts-conversations radionomadi by Urban Experience, a performance by Illoco Theater, e two events, a September and October, by Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix who will also curate a series of educational activities during the same period.

Free events with reservations required at: https://www.teatromobile.eu/antichi-sipari.html

Calendar of the first meetings

Sunday, June 2, 5:30 p.m.

first Sunday of the month - free admission

Aeneid - first study

adaptation and reading Paolo Musio | sings Evelina Meghnagi | sound environment with live music Felice Zaccheo | sound Paolo Franco | production Teatro Mobile

The project on the Aeneid by Paolo Musio, an actor with more than 30 years' experience who over the years has been directed by such directors as Luca Ronconi and Mario Martone, begins in Nemi on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the burning of the Roman ships in the Museum (May 31 and June 1, 1944). The anniversary will be recalled in Urban Experience's walkabout epilogue, by Museum Director Daniela De Angelis, emphasizing how the mysteries shrouding Nemi have not yet thinned out. Musio's reading is enhanced by the presence of Evelina Meghnaghi, a Sephardic singer and actress of Spanish origin but raised in Italy who has always focused her interest on the music of the Mediterranean.

Sunday, June 9, 5:30 p.m.

To attend the performance you need a museum admission ticket: full price 5 euros, reduced price 2 euros

Shadow Line - Heart of Darkness Conrad 100 years old

premiere

by Pina Catanzariti | directed by Marcello Cava | with Raffaele Gangale and Fabrizio Parenti | live music Felice Zaccheo | production Teatro Mobile

An existential journey of someone crossing the threshold into adulthood. "The Shadow Line: A Confession" is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written in 1915, on the heels of World War I. In this re-writing by Pina Catanzariti, the encounter between the young Conrad and the young Baudelaire takes place in an alternation of restless voices and converging thoughts, which are measured by the typical anxieties of youth confronting advancing life and the inexorable fear of death. It is a headphone-listening project where live and recorded words dovetail into the excited dialogue between the two sailors, the new captain and the old officer, in a stream of sound, which allows the viewer-listener, the "vision" of the impossible journey along the shadow line that will be, on this particular occasion, between the ancient hulls and up to the shore of Lake Nemi. Teatro Mobile's work on Conrad began precisely at the Museum of Roman Ships in Nemi in 2022 as part of "Ancient Memories": it is now being premiered, in diptych with the rewrite from "Shadow Line" and "Heart of Darkness," and with Urban Experience's walkabout intervention, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Joseph Conrad's death, and after its debut in the Museum it will be offered in other places in Rome and Italy.

Sunday, July 7, 5:30 p.m.

first Sunday of the month - free admission

Coriolanus - from Shakespeare

adaptation Roberto Andolfi and Dario Carbone | with Roberto Andolfi, Dario Carbone, Annarita Colucci, Bruno Ricci and Francesco Zaccaro | sound Paolo Franco | production Illoco Teatro

Adaptation part from work done by Bertolt Brecht on the play, which puts emphasis on the vicissitudes of ordinary men sent to their deaths by the choices of the powerful. The staging puts the audience at the center, using them as the Roman "people," a kind of needle of the scales capable of bringing the protagonist to triumph or fall. The performance will be realized on the move and the audience's enjoyment will be itinerant, combining headphone theater and the suggestion of the choral image realized live by a group of actors.

Later Appointments

Saturday, August 10, 7 p.m.

Ovid - Metamorphoses and the Art of Loving

by and with Pietro Faiella and Liliana Massari

Saturday, August 31, 7 p.m.

The madness of power: Caligula (on his birthday!) and Nero

by Pina Catanzariti | directed by Marcello Cava | with Raffaele Gangale and Fabrizio Parenti | live music Felice Zaccheo

Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15

Planning a wedding

of Legio XXX Vlpia Victrix

Saturday, September 21, 7 p.m.

Double Midsummer Dream

by Pina Catanzariti | directed by Marcello Cava

Sunday, October 6, 4 p.m.

Antigone possible

by Pina Catanzariti directed by Marcello Cava

Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20

Taberna Stories

of Legio XXX Vlpia Victrix

Sunday, October 27, 4 p.m.

The End

premiere

by Pina Catanzariti directed by Marcello Cava