THE HANGING TOWN
VOLTERRA ● POMARANCE ● CASTELNUOVO V.C. ● MONTECATINI V.C.
Artistic journeys into places close to the infinite

THE FORTEZZA MEDICEA AS AN HANGING PLACE

Compagnia della Fortezza
SHAKESPEARE. KNOW WELL |site specific fot VT | nazional premiére
drama and direction Armando Punzo
From July 20th to 25th, 3 pm
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIULIANO!
VolterraTeatro commemorates the 80s of a great master of Nineteenth-century theatre
Symposium with
COMMEDIA DI MATTI ASSASSINI (Comedy of crazy murders)
dialog with Massimo Marino
July 20th, 5.30 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

GENERAZIONE SCENARIO (Scenario award’s winners)|  regional premiére
Volterrateatro guests the eighth edition of Generazione scenario, the winners of Scenario award
July 21st, 5 p.m. / WAY A
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Mariangela Gualtieri/Teatro Valdoca
FRATERNITÀSOLARE (sunny brotherhood)
sound cerimony for La Fortezza of Volterra
by and with Mariangela Gualtieri
July 21st, 5 p.m./ WAY B
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Fanny & Alexander
GIALLO (yellow)
live radio play
July 22nd, 4.30 p.m. / WAY B
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Aniello Arena/Compagnia della Fortezza
A-SOLO
pilot study of audience’s absence | created for VT | national premiére
written and directed by Armando Punzo
July 21st, 9.15 p.m.
Teatro de Larderel – Pomarance
July 22nd, 4.30 p.m. / WAY A
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Chiara Guidi/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
NUVOLE. CASA (clouds. home) |regional premiére
July 22nd, 4.30 p.m./ WAY C
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Mario Perrotta
MILITE IGNOTO-QUINDICIDICIOTTO (unknown soldier – 15/18)
of Mario Perrotta
July 25th, 4.30 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Jacopo Quadri
SUMMER SCHOOL. LUCA RONCONI AT SANTACRISTINA / Movie
The director will introduce the show of the documentary movie about “Centro Teatrale Santacristina” the theatre summer school created twelve years ago in Umbria by Luca Ronconi,  the popular theatral master recently dead.
July 25th,  6 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

THE PRISON, FROM PENAL INSTITUTE TO CULTURAL PLACE
Final international meeting of PICP, the european project

during the meeting

Alberto Magnaghi
UN’IDEA DI LIBERTÀ (an idea of freedom)
July 20th luglio, 4.30 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

THE ARCHIVE OF COMPAGNIA DELLA FORTEZZA
Historical Archive of Compagnia della Fortezza dedicated to Augusto Bianchi Rizzi
July 21st, 4.30 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

“THE HANGING TOWN”, RO.RO.RO, SPECIAL EDITION VOLTERRATEATRO 2015 
Launch of the publishing plan Ro.Ro.Ro. Special edition VolterraTeatro 2015
24th July 4.30 p.m.
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

CLOSE TO INFINITE: OTHER HANGING PLACES AND TIMES

with the occasion of 40° death day of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Archivio Zeta
PILADE/PASOLINI
theatral trail site specific for VolterraTeatro

PILADE/CAMPOSANTO | al tramonto, vicino all’infinito (cemetery – at the sunset, close to infinite) | preview
Special project Archivio Zeta 1st leg
July 20th, 7.30 p.m.
Camposanto vecchio (old cemetery) – Montecatini Val di Cecina

PILADE/NASCITA DI ATENA | al tramonto, vicino all’infinito (Athena’s birth – at the sunset, close to infinite) | site specific for VT | national premiére
Special project Archivio Zeta 2nd leg
July 22nd, 7.30 p.m.
Fumarole of Sasso Pisano – Castelnuovo Val di Cecina

PILADE/CAMPO DEI RIVOLUZIONARI (revolutionaries’ camp) | site specific for VT | national premiére
Special project Archivio Zeta 3rd leg
July 25th, 9 p.m.
Salina – Saline di Volterra

PILADE/MONTAGNE | al tramonto, vicino all’infinito (Pilade/mountains – at the sunset, close to infinite)| regional premiére
Special project Archivio Zeta 4th leg
July 26th, 7 p.m.
Rocca Sillana – Pomarance

Orchestra of Via Palazzuolo
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA | al tramonto, vicino all’infinito ( at the sunset, close to infinite)
One-act play by a novel of Giovanni Verga
July 23rd , 7 p.m.
Badia Camaldolese – Volterra
(in case of rain the Opera will take place in Teatro Persio Flacco of Volterra)

Ginevra Di Marco/Francesco Magnelli/Andrea Salvadori/Marzio Del Testa – feat. Peppe Servillo, Cisco, Sergio Staino, Armando Punzo, Giacomo Trinci
LA FABBRICA SOSPESA  (the hanging factory)
July 24th, 9 p.m.
G.I.A.S.C. Area of Cavo di Saline – Saline di Volterra
(in case of rain the concert will take place in the Cavo’s tensile structure)

CHILD CREATIVITY

Chiara Guidi/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
LA TERRA DEI LOMBRICHI. UNA TRAGEDIA PER BAMBINI
(The earthworms’ land. A tragedy for children)
July 23rd, 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.
July 24th, 4.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
July 25th, 4.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
Basement Pinacoteca Civica – Volterra

Emanuela Dall’Aglio/Teatro delle Briciole
I’MNATURA | regional premiére
paths to peek at unusual creatures
July 23rd, 9.30 p.m.
Parco Fiumi – Volterra

THE HANGING TOWN: A WORKROOM TOWN

Aniello Arena/Compagnia della Fortezza
A-SOLO
pilot study of audience’s absence | created for VT | national premiére
21 luglio 2015, ore 21.15
July 21st, 9.15 p.m.
Teatro de Larderel – Pomarance
July 22nd, 4.30 p.m. / WAY A
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Officine Papage / CittadiniInScena
CONIUGAZIONI (Conjugations)
The grammar of being
July 21st, 7 p.m.
Teatro dei Coraggiosi – Pomarance

EXHIBITIONS

Mario Francesconi
CATARIFRANGENTI (Cat’s eyes)
The hanging town
from July 20th to 25th
Fortezza Medicea – Volterra

Clara Vannucci
PERSONAGGI SOSPESI (hanging characters)
from July 20th to 26th
10.30 a.m. – 7.30 pm
Logge of Palazzo Pretorio – Volterra

Stefano Vaja
SANTISSIMO GENET (holy Genet)
From July 20th to 26th
10.30 a.m. – 7.30 p.m.
Space of Via Turazza – Volterra

Stefano Tonelli
LA PIETÀ RIMOSSA (the removed pity)
From July 20th al 26th
10.30 a.m.– 7.30 p.m.
Saletta del Giudice Conciliatore (ground zero of municipality) – Volterra

Giuseppangela Campus
DANZA (Dance)
From July 20th to 26th
City Center – Volterra

PUBLISHING

“THE HANGING TOWN”, RO.RO.RO, SPECIAL EDITION VOLTERRATEATRO 2015 
in collaboration with Clichy, publisher in Florence

CREATIVE PROJECTS

VT BANNER BAGS
culturalrecycling

MEETING PLACES

AWAY FROM THE CRAZY CROWD
From July 20th to 26th
L’araldo Bookshop – via Ricciarelli, Volterra