The play is special in the sense that it was created as one of the first European projects to unite five European minority theatres, i.e. it focuses on diversity which is why it is included in the Kitchen flagship of Rijeka 2020 \u2013 ECOC, which deals with diversity (national minorities in this case) and marginalised and excluded members of society.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Italian Drama of the Croatian National Theatre Ivna pl. Zajc, the play was coproduced by the German Theatre of Timisoara (Romania), Slovensko stalno gledali\u0161\u0107e di Trieste (Italy), National Institution Albanian Theatre, Skopje (Macedonia), and Kazali\u0161te Kosztol\u00e1nyi Dezs\u0151 (in Hungarian), Subotica (Serbia).<\/p>\n
The (Re)Discovering Europe project includes a series of other activities \u2013 lecture, Performative cooking by national minority actors participating in the show accompanied by conversations with actors, and the so-called Theatre Knowledge Market.<\/p>\n
The first education will be held on 20 February at 6 PM at Delta 5 for future actors and students of other departments at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. Paolo Magelli, director of \u201cThe Mountain Giants\u201d, will hold the workshop \u201cActor in theatre dell\u2019Arte\u201d in which he tackles various aspects of Luigi Pirandello\u2019s artistic and social engagement. The aim of the workshop is to describe the historical and philosophical context in which \u201cThe Mountain Giants\u201d were created and to explore its possible contemporary interpretations. One of the workshops will thus be open for students from Rijeka, but also from other participating cities \u2013 Subotica, Skopje, Trieste and Timisoara.<\/p>\n
The new session of the Theatre Parliament will be held on Saturday, 3 March at 5 PM in the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc, just before \u201cThe Mountain Giants\u201d. The session will be presided over by Lade \u010cale Feldman, associate of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research and full professor at the Chair for Theatre and Film Studies at the Department for Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The topic of the session is \u201cWho was the first Countess Ilse or Pirandello and the actress\u201d so the session will tackle the period of Pirandello\u2019s work when the actress Marta Abba, the first to play Countess Ilse, entered his life.<\/p>\n
The following day, on 4 March, Zajc is cooking for their audience. From 10 AM to 1 PM the space in front of the restaurant ,Fiume on the Rijeka Marketplace will be reserved for the Performative Kitchen. Under the guidance of masterchef Sr\u0111ana Jevti\u0107, national specialties of the guest actors\u2019 cultures will be cooked, and it will also be an opportunity for audiences to talk to the actors.<\/p>\n
The language of theatre is as universal as the diversity of cuisine \u2013 they bypass all language barriers and achieve communication. This is the basis for the project Performative Kitchen: Cooking Diversity which combines performing arts (theatre) and cooking. It\u2019s a project in which actors of the different ensembles performing The Mountain Giants in different cities (Rijeka, Timisoara, Trieste, Skopje and Subotica) cook for the local community and present their culture in that manner. The cooking is performed live in different public spaces, and the audience is actively engaged in the process so the entire project has an educational dimension in the sense of meeting different cultures and learning how to prepare national dishes. The culinary session ends with the actors and audience sharing a meal.<\/p>\n
The Theatre Market is an informal education in which interested audience members will be able to book half an hour with a member of the production team (actors, directors, stage managers, producers, scenographers, costume designers and others) and ask them anything they want to know. It will be held on 6 March at 9:30 PM in the foyer of the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc.<\/p>\n
This is a type of non-hierarchical transfer of knowledge inspired by Ranciere\u2019s The Ignorant Schoolmaster. There is no predefined format, the participants themselves decide what they want to learn.<\/p>\n
The conversation between the interested audience members and the members of The Mountain Giants team will be held in a relaxed atmosphere, one on one over a glass of wine.<\/p>\n
Additionally, on 7 March, a lecture will be held as part of the \u201cTheatre and new media \/ how to watch\u201d cycle. It will be held by Morana \u010cale, professor of Italian literature at the Department of Italian of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She will discuss the political aspects of The Mountain Giants and their position in Pirandello\u2019s opus. The lecture begins at 12 PM in the foyer of Ivan pl. Zajc, it is free, and it is held in Italian in cooperation with the Department of Italian of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As part of the Kitchen flagship of the Rijeka 2020 \u2013 ECOC project and the (Re)Discovering Europe project, Luigi Pirandello\u2019s \u201cThe Mountain Giants\u201d, directed by Paolo Magelli, will premiere on 2 March 2018 in the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":10868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2959,2731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kitchen-of-diversity","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n