Cinderella

Directing: Luana Gramegna

Dramaturgy: Gianluca Gabriele, Amalia Ruocco, Enrica Zampetti

Actors: Gianluca Gabriele, Amalia Ruocco, Enrica Zampetti

Other credits: HYSTRIO 2023 National Prize (Italy)
to ZACHES TEATRO
for experimentation and contamination of artistic languages

Best scenic design, Best costume design,
Best puppets, Best concept design
Int. 3° In-Put Theatre Festival 2024
Karlovac (Croatia)

Best Actors
Int. Puppet Theatre Festival
“Golden Sparkle” Kragujevac 2024 (Serbia)

Best Show by Children’s Jury
Best Lighting Design by Professional Jury
56th PIF - Int. Puppet Theatre Festival 2023
Zagreb (Croatia)

Best National Newer
EOLO AWARDS 2022 (Italy)

Best Actors
35th Int. Theatre Festival
VALISE 2022 - Lomza (Poland)

Grand Prix for Best Show
Best Direction
Best Actors
29th Int. Children's Theatre Festival 2022
Subotica (Serbia)
direction, dramaturgy, choreography Luana Gramegna
sets, lights, costumes, and puppets Francesco Givone
original music and soundscape Stefano Ciardi
dramaturgical collaboration Daria Menchetti
collaboration for sets, costumes, and puppets Alessia Castellano
costume realization Rachele Ceccotti
project manager Enrica Zampetti

Winning project of Bando Toscana Terra Accogliente 2020
edited by RAT (Residenze Artistiche Toscana)
in collaboration with Teatro Metastasio of Prato, Toscana Spettacolo Onlus Fondation,
Dance Production Center by Virgilio Sieni
creative residences (RAT) at
Officina della Cultura, Kanterstrasse, Murmuris, Kinkaleri and LST Teatro

Key words: Cenerentola, fiaba, teatro di figura, danza, ribellione

Production: Produzione Zaches Teatro con il sostegno di MiC e Regione Toscana con il contributo di Teatro Fonderia Leopolda di Fol

Year of production: 2021

Theatrical genre: Children's theatre (5-99) Dance theatre Figure

From the ashes to the court, Cinderella is a heroine with a thousand faces, creator of her destiny.

There are more than three hundred variants of this fairy tale and it is one of the most ancient in the world.

In our research we have decided to focus on the older oral versions and on two written versions: that of the Brothers Grimm and that of La Gatta Basile's Cinderella.

But more than a research story of prince charming, Cinderella by Zaches Teatro is a fairy tale initiatory in which the problematic road to maturity passes through the detachment from the past.

Using Object theatre, dance, expressive movement, original music compositions, and puppetry, the bodies of the performers give life to characters from history in a whirlwind show full of inventions, animated by strange presences between the funny and the grotesque, with a strong visual impact. The manipulation becomes dance, furthermore, the dance evokes the ancient presence, the mysterious ritual under the ashes of the fairy tale.