La valle dell'Eden
About this event
La valle dell’Eden (East of Heaven) (1952), a masterpiece written by Steinbeck in his mature age, is like a “world opera”: a modern revisiting of the Book of Genesi, with the shape of a monumental family saga of “a fall”, this hypnotic picture of conflicts between relatives and generations, that goes through
American History from the middle of 19th century to the first world war, is an extraordinary dissertation about modernity’s twilight, able to camouflage the dark and incommunicable background of individual and collective experiences.
Antonio Latella, after the great success of Santa Estasi and his peculiar
excursus of Pinocchio by Collodi, has taken the challenge to confront with the
multifaceted and slippery substance of Steinbeck’s romance in order to explore its universal themes, discovering a tight and problematic relationship with the time present, thanks to a cast of actors composed by emerging interpreters as well as established artists.
Tour
Artistic Data
set design Giuseppe Stellato
costume design Simona D’Amico
light design Simone De Angelis
original music and sound Franco Visioli
assistant at the artistic project Brunella Giolivo
trainee assistant director Paolo Costantini
technical manager Robert John Resteghini
stage director and chef machinist Lorenzo Martinelli
machinist Riccardo Benecchi
head electrician Lorenzo Maugeri
sound technician Chiara Losi
stage sound technician Hania Radecka
costume realization Cinzia Virguti
wardrobe Simona Paganelli
props Alessandra Biondi
set realized in the workshop of Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
head carpenter Gioacchino Gramolini
iron constructions Marco Fieni, Riccardo Betti
carpenters Sergio Puzzo, Gianluca Bolla
set decorators Ludovica Sitti (head), Lucia Bramati, Sarah Menichini, Benedetta Monetti, Rebecca Zavattoni
graphic design Marco Smacchia
video documentation Lucio Fiorentino
photo Brunella Giolivo
produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Fondazione Teatro Metastasio- Prato, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
EAST OF EDEN Copyright © 1952 by John Steinbeck
Copyright © renewed 1980 by Elaine Steinbeck, Thom Steinbeck, and John Steinbeck IV