What Time is it?
Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo Quarterlymay / july 2020
Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari, It is time for actions to follow the words
Carlotta Garlanda, Towards a cooperation in the performing arts
Mario Martone, Looking beyond the wall
Omar Rajeh, An experience of togetherness, a cluster of equality
Chiara Bersani and Marta Montanini, When we feel afraid, we defend ourselves
Ilenia Caleo, NOW is a tangle of
Franco Lorenzoni, The chair vessel in the rough sea of household objects
Choral prologue
Valentina Valentini
TBQvoices is a means of reflecting on and discussing issues that “strike” us at the present moment, a present moment that also meets and detects the distance of the past. Examining “the right now” to be able to think of “what has always been”; and vice versa taking a...
Hamletic exercise
Roberto Latini
it may be a whim, it may be a vice,it may be a “Hamletic” exercise to define oneself, to non-define oneself, weighing up the negation, but the first thought in reply to the solicitation about WHAT TIME IT IS makes me try to write about THE TIME THAT IS NOT.WHAT TIME...
Night
Ermanna Montanari
What comes after Will there be an after? In the past it would always have been taken for granted there would be an after. Or is it the After with a capital A which I should write about? The After that establishes a connection with our destiny, with death, “with the...
Every individual has the right to freely participate in the cultural activites of his own community, to enjoy art and benefit from the progress of science
Interview to Luca Bergamo by Valentina Valentini
Valentina Valentini: The relationship between the city centre and the outskirts was of great political and cultural importance during the seventies, the years of my political and cultural education…today it appears that this dichotomy has been forgotten, as though it...
Movement of its inhabitants, citizens; buildings and environment
Paolo Emilio Cenciarelli
Seriously, Accattò…You know I am someone who has studied, you can trust me... tell me your last wishes, what sort of funeral procession? Friends follow the hearse, first one to weep buys the drinks! What inscription on the tombstone? “Try it and see!” Pier Paolo...
It is time for actions to follow the words
Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
It is time for actions to follow the words, the declarations and the manifestos. However, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last week, last month and in previous years also then it was necessary for actions to follow words. So, what has changed? It is only another...
Towards a cooperation in the performing arts
Carlotta Garlanda
If we try asking ourselves “what time is today?” for the performing arts, it is difficult not to take into account the health emergency that has forced a whole country to a long compulsory stop, with the suspension of all activities and the severe consequences for the...
Looking beyond the wall
Mario Martone
To take action in the degraded city areas seems to me of crucial importance. I can remember perfectly well how, in the eighties, I was amazed when I went to New York (with Falso Movimento we toured several years in a row). I noticed there were neighbourhoods that...
An experience of togetherness, a cluster of equality
Omar Rajeh
We are fragile, weak, and exhausted, but still we bear the courage to fiercely fight for life. We reclaim the significant and the essential. The nurses and doctors, these brilliant heroes, show us without doubt the true meaning of their profession. Actions of...
When we feel afraid, we defend ourselves
Chiara Bersani and Marta Montanini
We were born 11 months apart, since then there are two of us. We have built all our views overlapping our thoughts, it’s the only way we know to make sense of the world. The time for synthesis and order will arrive, but it will take a while. For now, this is all we...
NOW is a tangle of
Ilenia Caleo
{tangle n.0 (prototype) – legislative decree 25 March 2020 n.19}They appear like they do in your hair, or in the drainpipes, maybe NOW is like this, the tangles are unfinished - uncertain- unsteady thoughts. Thoughts that understand very little. {tangle n. 2...
The chair vessel in the rough sea of household objects
Franco Lorenzoni
Boys and girls have a lot to teach us in this period of lockdown because they can “go crazy” over objects and spaces much more so than us grown-ups.Theatre – perhaps the most ancient game - is said to be the child of ancient rites. In our time, I believe it comes...
We’d like to thank all the authors who have contributed with their texts to make this zero edition possible. We also thank the English translator and who reviewed the articles; Lorenzo Giansante for designing the website; Andrea Vendetti for creating the front page graphics; the photographer Carlo Galeazzi for having provided us with the historical photo from the Spring of 1974 showing the indoor market which previously occupied the space where the theatre and library of Quarticciolo now stand; the photographer Paolo Emilio Cenciarelli for providing the photos shot during the lockdown due to the pandemic of Covid19 and all the editorial staff.