Pippo Delbono

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Pippo Delbono (born 1 June 1959 in Varazze, Italy) is an Italian author, actor, and director.

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Biography

Pippo Delbono began training in traditional theatre in Denmark, [1] studying the principles of oriental theatre, through a rigorous work on body and voice. Later, in Germany, Delbono was invited by Pina Bausch [2] to follow her work. At the beginning of the 80's he founded the Compagnia Pippo Delbono, creating most of his works with them, from Il Tempo degli Assassini (1987) to La Gioia (2018). [3]

He does not stage plays [4] but, rather, total creations, devised with a stable group of actors whose number has grown through the years. The encounter with socially marginalized people determines a turning point in his poetical research: that's how Barboni (1997) was born. [5] Some of these actors – among them Bobò, [6] deaf-mute, who had been kept in an asylum in Aversa, near Naples, for forty-five years and recently died – have kept working with the company and are still a central part of this experience.

The works that followed — La rabbia dedicated to Pasolini, Guerra, Esodo, Gente di plastica, Racconti di giugno, Urlo, Il silenzio, Questo buio feroce, La menzogna, Dopo la battaglia, [7] Orchidee, [8] Vangelo, La gioia — like the ones before, have been performed worldwide in more than fifty countries, in theaters and festivals, including the Festival d'Avignon (where a lot of the company's creations were presented), [9] Barcelona's Grec, Theater Spektakel in Zurich, Festwochen in Wien, Festival TransAmeriques in Montreal, Venice Biennale, etc.

In 2009, he was awarded the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Wrocław. [10]

Several theatres, including the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, [11] Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Teatro Argentina in Rome, among others, present regularly his performances. Henry V — his only creation based on an existing play – is the only Italian production of Shakespeare that has ever been invited to perform at the Royal Shakespeare Company. [12] His production Vangelo (2016) has been realized at Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb [13] with actors of his company together with Croatian actors, dancers, musicians and chorus and with refugees of the PIAM refugee camp in Asti (Italy). The performance has two versions: Opera with chorus and orchestra, that premiered in Italy at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Drama version, that premiered at Thèatre Vidy – Lausanne. The music of the performance are by Enzo Avitabile who won the Ubu Prize [14] for them. His last theatre creation, La gioia, premiered in March 2018 and has been presented at Theatre Olympics in Delhi and Bhopal (India), at Hong Kong Arts Festival, in Shizuoka (Japan), in Tunisia, Spain, Portugal. [15] and it will be on tour in the theatrical season 2021/2022.

Europe Theatre Prize

In 2009, he was one of the recipients of the XI Europe Prize Theatrical Realities. The prize organization described Delbono as a "poet of social marginalisation and diversity" and stated that he "has always seen art as a fundamental experience for overcoming desperation". [16]

Theatre

Opera

Awards

Special Prize for Barboni

for Guerra

for Gente di Plastica

Best Documentary for Guerra

for Urlo

Grand Prix Compétition Internationale for Blue Sofa

Best Show for Dopo la Battaglia

for Amore e Carne [18]

for Sangue

for Sangue

Best Movie for Sangue

Best Actors Pippo Delbono and Bobò

for La Visite

Best Short Film for La Visite

Filmography

Director

Actor

YearTitleDirector
2010 I Am Love Luca Guadagnino
2010 Il sogno del maratoneta Leone Pompucci
2011 Cavalli Michele Rho
2012 Goltzius and the Pelican Company Peter Greenaway
2012Pulce non c'è Giuseppe Bonito
2012 Me and You (film) Bernardo Bertolucci
2013 Cha cha cha Marco Risi
2013 A Castle in Italy Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
2013Transeuropæ HotelLuigi Cinque
2013 Henri Yolande Moreau
2014 Darker Than Midnight Sebastiano Riso
2014 Rendez-vous à Atlit Shirel Amitay
2014 United Passions Frédéric Auburtin
2016 Worldly Girl Marco Danieli
2016Ombre della seraValentina Esposito
2016Il camionistaLucio Gaudino
2016FalchiToni D'Angelo
2017 A Family Sebastiano Riso
2017Gli asteroidiGermano Maccioni
2018A Tramway in Jerusalem Amos Gitai
2018Oltre la nebbia – Il mistero di Rainer MerzGiuseppe Varlotta
2019 Lucania (film) Gigi Roccati
2019La Freccia del TempoCarlo Sarti

Exhibits

Concerts

Bibliography

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  2. ↑ De Martino A., Puppa p., Toninato P., Differences on stage, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2013, p. 239
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  4. ↑ Canziani, Roberto (2019-12-16). "Italian Theatre Today: Not a System, and so Many Transformations". Critical Stages/Scènes critiques. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  5. ↑ "'I MIEI BARBONI SONO RANDAGI' – la Repubblica.it". Archivio – la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  6. ↑ "Ciao Bobò!".
  7. ↑ "Dopo la battaglia".
  8. ↑ "Orchidee".
  9. ↑ "Pippo Delbono". Festival d'Avignon.
  10. ↑ "Europe Theatre Prize - XIII Edition - XIII Edition Europe Theatre Prize". 2016-03-31. Archived from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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  12. ↑ "Annual report 2006-2007" (PDF). cdn2.rsc.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  13. ↑ "Vangelo".
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