Bidibibodibiboo

Italy

Directing & Text

Francesco Alberici

A play about two brothers, the horrors of the modern working world and the theatre: full of tenderness, wit and a sense for contradiction.

Language

Italian with german and english surtitles

Duration

110 min

Tickets

Location

transit

Kleines Haus

Kleines Haus Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Glacisstr. 28
01099 Dresden

KH 1

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Dates

Short introduction

more about the artist

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Content

Dani writes plays. He wants to write a play about his brother Pietro. Pietro works in a big company. He has big problems from the stress in his job.

Dani describes how his brother is doing. He shows how tough the modern working world is. The story is told with humour and seriousness. It shows that people are only valued because of their achievements. It’s about fear, loneliness and the false security of a steady job.

Francesco Alberici (*1988) wrote the play. He directed it and also plays the main role himself. BIDIBIBODIBIBOO is his fourth play as a director. It won the Italian theatre prize Ubu in 2024.

In the middle of the Corona pandemic, Dani, a playwright, proposes to his brother Pietro, who works for a “big company”, to write a play about him and his soul-destroying experience with the modern working world. Pietro agrees and Dani, who wasn’t making any money with theatre at the time, starts a play about the lives, thinking and suffering of the middle class. Enthusiastically and mercilessly, Dani probes the disaster of a bourgeois life, describing the attempts to escape, the contradictions, the false securities and the loneliness in the hell of modern competition and optimisation battles: in short, everything the two brothers never believed in, but still had drummed into their heads. But then out of the blue Pietro changes his mind…

Director, writer and actor Francesco Alberici, *1988, paints an accurate and precise picture of the Western world. With light-heartedness – because you have to laugh at what makes you suffer, with a sense of contradiction, ambition and brotherly affection, Alberici describes a system that has made it standard to measure the value of people on all levels by their “performance”. BIDIBIBODIBIBOO was awarded the Italian theatre prize, Ubu, for best new play in 2024. Alberici works with various Italian theatres and groups as an actor and writer, including Deflorian / Tagliarini and Babilonia Teatri. In 2021 he won the Ubu award for best actor / performer under 35. He has founded his own production label for theatre, Frigoproduzioni. BIDIBIBODIBIBOO is his fourth piece as a director.

With Francesco Alberici, Salvatore Aronica, Monica Demuru, Andrea Narsi, Daniele Turconi

Text & Directing Francesco Alberici

Assistant Director Ermelinda Nasuto Scenography Alessandro Ratti Lighting Design Daniele Passeri Light & Sound Technician Fabio Clemente, Eva Bruno Production SCARTI Centro di Produzione Teatrale d’Innovazione, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Ente Autonomo Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa Photos Francesco Capitani, Daniele Casalboni, Lorenzo Marocco (Portrait Francesco Alberici) With the support from La Corte Ospitale Thanks to Alessandra Ventrella, Davide Sinigaglia e Ileana Frontini

The play was created during the Ecole des Maîtres 2020 / 21 directed by Davide Carnevali and was a finalist at the 56th edition of Premio Riccione per il Teatro. BIDIBIBODIBIBOO has won the Italian theatre award Ubu 2024 for the best new Italian play.

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