MARX IS BACK

(a play on history)

“Why have I returned? to clear my name!”

Saturday 12th December 2015

AstaroTheatro presents a monologue by Howard Zinn adapted and performed by Roberto Bacchilega

Karl Marx has had enough of seeing his revolution taken over by opportunists organizing each time a new priesthood and a new hierarchy, with excommunications and indexes, with inquisitions and firing squads. He is disgusted by media declaring him dead again and again. Karl Marx is back to remind us that his ideas are more alive than ever. He revisits memories of his courageous life and revolutionary theories. We learn about his family, his struggles and the boils on his arse.

Apocalyptic Alphabet

Friday 4th December 2015

OpenPodium at AstaroTheatro

Special Edition with performance from AstaroTheatro Collective Workshop
Open podium with different artists from different backgrounds
Crazy acts > Sense, non-sense and sensation

Music, lounge, eat&drink. Bar is open, small buffet as well

SheOwl

Saturday 28th November 2015

Fiercely independent, She Owl’s music is nowadays part of the endangered species: delicate as the wind in the trees, unfamiliar as an ancient fairytale, liberating like drums around the fire and frightening as a bird of prey.

Fiore di Luna

Saturday 21st November 2015

(AstaroTheatro in Italian)

Monologue and Storytelling
Performed and directed by Silvia Terribili

Fiore di Luna is the story of an ex-soldier who is going home after one more useless war
Fiore di Luna is a story of sea
The misterious Fiore di Luna comes suddenly to help the soldier to cross the sea.

AstaroTheatro goes Doc

Friday 13th November 2015
Saturday 14th November 2015

Documentaries at AstaroTheatro.
Awareness through documentary films

Manifesto

Saturday 7th November 2015

OpenPodium at AstaroTheatro
Open podium with different artists from different backgrounds
Crazy acts > Sense, non-sense and sensation
Music, lounge, eat&drink. Bar is open, small buffet as well

With special guests:
Professor Russolo
A pseudo-religious music-theatre ode to the thoughts, ideas and 1913

Manifesto

Performance-artist and devotee Prof. Russolo will follow in the footsteps of his famous historical predecessor and executes a 15 minute performance ritual with bass guitar, voice, live electronics (technician Roderik Maes), toaster, vacuum cleaner, blender and other inspiring instruments.

Juan Carlos Tajes
presents

Helenikon / Juan C. Tajes 1980

A poetical theatrical declamation

Time plunges its hands into the memory, days passed, adventure, misadventure, love, miss-love. A discovering of classical Greece in the experience of Ephebic love. Love and desire, searching for a glimpse of dark eyes and the salty taste of the tight skin of male youth.

AstaroTheatro Collective
Friday 6th November 2015

presents

I’ll weep for happiness
Ezio Tangini

Symptom
dance performance
dance Ezio Tangini
music Salvatore Insana
The performance is about the pain of the human soul.
The eradication of the body. the desire to erase the self.

Somewhere Nowhere
butoh performance
dance Ezio Tangini
fluid matter, shapeless, magmatic, in flux, terra incognita
extended time, fluctuating, time lapse in between

Ezio Tangini
Born in Urbania (Pesaro), Italy. Lives in Rome. Educated in Foreign Literatures at the University La Sapienza of Rome.

Studies and practice of contemporary dance. 1998-2004 contemporary dance laboratory of Alessandra Sini. 1998 discovers Butoh with the teacher Masaki Iwana. 1998-2003 Masaki Iwana’s workshops in Normandy, Rome, Polverigi. Several workshops with other Butoh dancers like Silvia Rampelli, Ko Murobushi, Akira Kasai, Mika Takeuchi, Yumiko Yoshioka. Since 2003 dancer and co-founder of the butoh dance company “In Between”.

AstaroTheatro Collective @Free Fringe Festival 2015
AstaroTheatro outside AstaroTheatro:

MARX IS BACK (a play on history)

A monologue by Howard Zinn
Adapted and performed by Roberto Bacchilega

‘Why have I returned? To clear my name’

Wednesday 9th September 2015, 20:30 h
4bid GALLERY @ OT301 (ground floor) Overtoom 301 Amsterdam
Sunday 13th September 2015, 16:30 h
DE VONDELBUNKER. VondelPark Amsterdam

HUMANIMAL

by AstaroTheatro Collective

Stories of the human condition; vanity, greed, freedom, power and empathy as found in Aesop’s animal fables. With a twist!
Cast: Gabriella Sacco, Silvia Terribili, Roberto Bacchilega
Lighting & Sound: Massimiliano Pipolo

Friday 4th September 2015, 20:30 h
(Double Bill with Words Words Words)
DE VONDELBUNKER. VondelPark Amsterdam

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

by David Ives

The “infinite monkey theorem” hypothesizes that if a monkey is left to tap at a keyboard at random it will eventually produce a great literary work. Roberto Bacchilega, Silvia Terribili & Grainne Delaney bring to life this piece of monkey business by American playwright David Ives: a dry satirical look at the meaning of human evolution, from the perspective of a chimp.
Lighting & Sound: Massimiliano Pipolo

Pictures: Tatjana Todorovic

Friday 4th September 2015, 20:30 h
Saturday 12th September 2015, 14:00 h
DE VONDELBUNKER. VondelPark Amsterdam

Free Fringe Festival 2015 @AstaroTheatro Collective

Thurday 3rd September 2015
EXHIBITION OPENING 19:00 hrs.

‘Albert Oink’

paintings by Zbigniew Maciak

Albert Oink is the pseudonym of Zbigniew Maciak, a Polish artist with a theatre background living in Amsterdam. His career started with drawing cartoons for a Polish theatrical weekly. He gradually switched from paper and ink to canvas and oil paint. For several years he portrayed mostly pigs and occasionally other animals. The hybrid forms presented in this exhibition mark a new stage in the development of his style which a Polish art critic described as “fallen aesthetics”

BOUFFON DOUBLE BILL from 20:00 hrs.

Feic

by Ciara O’Sullivan

This piece involves a type of clowning called Bouffon. Bouffon is a way of attacking a social issue by being a clown and making fun of it. Feic is an Irish verb to see. We all see things, objects, people differently. The piece involves a box , a doll and a Bouffon who combines a mock Irish nun with an image of me. There will be audience interaction and strong language. Be prepared to look at things differently!

The Dictation of Life

by Rhys McLellan

I have a problem with life at the minute. It’s a problem that seems to be worldwide, The Dictation of Life by the technology with which we surround ourselves. Be it a console, even something as simple as a car or these so called ‘android’ phones, they have an unshakable hold on us. They allow us to become more internally connected with each other but at the same time we are distancing ourselves, not just from each other but the world.

Monday 7th September 2015

THE LAND BETWEEN

Documentary Film – 20:00 hrs.

THE LAND BETWEEN offers an insight into the hidden and desperate lives of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in the mountains of northern Morocco. For most, their dream is to enter Europe by jumping a highly-militarised barrier into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the African continent. With unique and unprecedented access, this film intimately documents the everyday life of these migrants trapped in limbo, as well as the extreme violence and constant mistreatment they face from both the Moroccan and Spanish authorities. It also explores many universal questions; including how and why people are prepared to risk everything, including their life, to leave their country, their family and friends, in search of a new and better life

Friday 11th September 2015

ORANGES & OLIVE PITS

20:00 hrs.

A storytelling of the Spanish Revolution with Dolan Jones and Sam Morris

As Spain erupts in civil war and revolution, two brothers tell each other stories to help explain the changing world around them. Their mythologies swiftly unravel, and when the civil war within the anti-fascist resistance tears them apart, they risk facing each other across the barricades

THE JOURNAL – BetweenTwoHands

22.00 hrs.

The Journal is a miniature object theatre performance with a tiny stage of 40 centimeters wide by 30 centimeters deep. Appropriately, this performance will take place at AstaroTheatro, Amsterdam’s Smallest Theatre! Tjin A Ton and Gosia Kazcmarek carefully manipulate dolls, odds and ends, music, torches and shadows to present the reflections of a lonesome man living in a world where objects are taking over

Saturday 12th September 2015

ASTAROTHEATRO DOUBLE BILL from 20:30 hrs.

Mudadus Novus

Songs and poems from the sea, from the earth and from the heart composed by Tora Mudadu and Fabio Marziali. The result is a delightful combination of original mediterranean folk music, jazz and spoken word performed in Italian, Sardinian and English

Humanimal

by AstaroTheatro Collective