Date: 23 April 2026 (Thu)
Venue: Green Room, SOHO House, 33 Des Voeux Rd W, Sheung Wan
Time: 7:00pm
Language: Italian
Registration required. Click here to register.
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The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to host Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella, Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Theatre Biennale, for the presentation of their book Clamori al Vento (Clamour in the wind). The event will offer the public the opportunity to connect with two of the most radical and creative voices in contemporary avant-garde theatre, and to get closer to their artistic imagination, between word, vision, and experimentation.
Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza have shared their artistic journey since 1987. Using diverse art forms, they have made performing a totemic poetics. Like a disease they burst into the lives of their audience. They have an ambition that is not an ambition since they satisfy it: the loss of residual meaning and word to the styles of the carnage. They are continually generating new facts, short circuits, obscurity from excess and defect. Their language of contamination is expressed through the image, the body, the word and the substance. They destroy and distort classic dramaturgy. They erode the mundane beneath layers of desperate comical screams. They do not manipulate the brains of those who see; they manipulate the bodies of those who watch.
The evening will be accompanied by a convivial moment, an opportunity to continue the meeting informally and share a dialogue with the artists in an informal atmosphere.