Santa Giovanna dei Macelli

ErosAntEros continues its research on an engaged theater that does not forget the aesthetic power of the form, with a new project starting from a great theatrical classic of the twentieth century, Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht, creating the opportunity to confront on stage with the Slovenian cult band LAIBACH.

Economy, capital, financial speculation, exploitation of workers, these are the major themes at the heart of the play, written following the great collapse of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929, which led, first the United States and then Europe, to ten years of economic crisis, industrial failures, land abandonment, unemployment, poverty, until the Second World War. Today we are in the permacrisis, the centers of production have shifted, the great working masses no longer live in the privileged West and the owners are more difficult to identify, but the exploitation of living beings and resources has not stopped, indeed, it has generated other changes, such as global warming, wars, pandemic, energetic crisis, consequences of the same diseased economic system. All of this continues to make Saint Joan of the Stockyards a contemporary text that addresses issues not far from us, offering an opportunity to connect them in a dialectical relation to our present through the use of videos of reality. And if the billionaires reread Marx to save capitalism from itself, we reread Saint Joan of the Stockyards to free ourselves from it, bringing it to the scene with a staging in which Brecht’s words are entrusted to actors of different languages, precisely because in the age of globalization only by joining forces we can achieve the revolution that can grant future generations to continue living on this planet.

So never say that nobody can change things. That injustice is ours from birth.

Bertolt Brecht

performance in Italian, Slovenian, German, English with surtitles

Extracts from press review

SIPARIO.IT – Dolores Pesce – 21/04/2024
The intelligent staging of the company from Ravenna knows how to grasp in the complex and even sudden changes of this “System”. (…) A complex show, very layered and with many suggestions and with a lot of implications that the two ErosAntEros manage ‘bravely’, scenically, musically and through acting of great quality.

UBU SCÈNES D’EUROPE – Chantal Boiron – 2/09/2024
Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič, who joined forces to direct the production and create its scenic design, have turned it into a modern fable, almost futuristic, which they have chosen to situate in an indefinite time and space. 

THE BLACK COFFEE – Laura Sestini – 29/04/2024
The text of ErosAntEros is multilingual, in Italian, Slovenian, German and English – because in the globalized world you have to be together to save yourself from oppression and violence. The live music of Laibach will support all the highlights of the theatrical performance, always impacting (…).

GAZZETTA DI MODENA- Andrea Marcheselli – 25/04/2024
The most significant result, however, is the overall quality of a production that literally enraptures for two hours in which the polyglot acting of a close-knit group of actors enters into perfect symbiosis with the harsh and deep sounds of Laibach.

All the Press Extracts

Santa Giovanna dei Macelli – trailer from Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione on Vimeo.