Program Fira B! 2025
Köszeg
Opera Retablo / Teatro Sociale Bellinzona
An Act of Civil Disobedience
Loosely inspired by The Notebook by Ágota Kristóf, Köszeg is a dark tale where everything is rendered raw and essential through a clear and direct narrative. At once moving and unsettling, Köszeg bears witness to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.
Through a sequence of vivid images, always teetering between childhood and adulthood, the performance offers a profound reflection on identity and belonging, on war and the yearning for peace and love.
A powerful piece that takes the audience deep into the heart of wounded humanity.
Credits:
- Directed by Ledwina Costantini
- By and with Ledwina Costantini and Daniele Bernardi
- Costumes: Caterina Foletti
- Set design: Michele Tognetti and Ennio FerrariSA
- Soundscape: Opera Retablo under the supervision of Olivier Gabus
- Produced by Opera Retablo, 2015
- Co-produced by Teatro Sociale Bellinzona and Alto Fest Napoli
- In collaboration with Teatro Foce Lugano
- Website: www.operaretablo.ch
- Winner of the 2019 call “Della morte e del morire” – Associazione Dello Scompiglio, Lucca
- Semi-finalist at the Swiss Theatre Encounter 2016 – Geneva
- With the support of: Republic and Canton of Ticino – DECS, SWISSLOS Fund, Pro Helvetia
- With contributions from: Tognetti/auto, CarthesioSA
Opera Retablo / Teatro Sociale Bellinzona
Founded on March 8, 2008 in Sessa, it is a space that hosts and promotes artistic and cultural contaminations, born from the need to equip the creations of Ledwina Costantini, an actress-creator from Ticino, with a network of collaborations and an organizational and logistical structure.
The association moves, develops and draws inspiration from the belief that the encounter and collaboration between individuals should be the basis of all work.
Opera 3etablo offers creations poised between the innovative and the archaic; works that give substance to a modern and destabilizing catharsis. It addresses that future-oriented humanity that questions all kinds of classifications and prejudices by transcending aesthetic, sexual and intellectual genders.
The association’s activities take place nationally and internationally.
Goals
In an age where cultural and artistic contaminations are no longer just a novelty but rather a common need, we find ourselves increasingly and almost naturally meeting with artists from various disciplines. From these growing encounters we want to draw other impulses, other forms and languages to create complete works that can stand up to a public that is increasingly accustomed to the varied, the possible, the unpredictable. We want to propose a living, interesting and sometimes uncomfortable art, in which the actor, the performer, the painter, and the musician are on stage and where the confrontation with the audience is real. We want to entertain, yes, but also and above all, communicate, share and create discussion.
