Cinderella

Direction: 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.