ExclusiveWilliam Davu warns of the interference of the United States government in the arts.
He expresses his surprise at President Trump, who “for someone who wants to limit the government, the government suddenly became very invading,” in culture.
The star of the cinema and theatrical actor insists that Trump should “let people do their art and allow modern art.” “We can develop our feeling of sympathy and responsibility socially, and leave it to people,” he added.
Davu spoke to me during the launch of the 53rd International Theater Festival of Venice, which has a two -year date as a technical manager.
I ask him about the dangers of Trump's seizure of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where he installed himself as a technical director of the legendary cultural establishment.
“Well, there is a lot,” contemplates. “It is not only a bad theater. I can't imagine Donald Trump's programming to program a good series of shows at the Kennedy Center. I don't want to go to a rabbit hole here.”
I do not want to make you upset, tell him. This dies away. “I do not mind the troubles,” he replied.
Theater is Davu's first love, and for him, everything in the world is a stage.
The last time we met, we were both in saliva on the lemon pizza that is presented at the Vanity Fair, and now we are running out of his festival's program.
The Oscar -nomadic star sees “a great opportunity to program some of the really interesting things and express some of the very inspiring people and try to make a change, to give a platform for something in a focused area, important things for me. So, it is a real gift.”
He tells me the theater, “I completely identify me, not only at work daily on making pieces, but also my approaches in performance.”
Devo's choice of performance by the Woster Group, and the 69 -year -old experimental group has been associated with it since he walked for the first time through the doors of its headquarters in Soho, New York, when he was in his early twenties.
Elizabeth Likombetti
He will honor his friend and partner for once, Elizabeth Likombetti, who co -founded Wooster Group with Spalding Gray (swimming to Cambodia), the pioneer in New York, Richard Foreman, who died in January.
It will create Le Comple Symphony of mice, Which, as it happens, is characterized by a distorted president.
“It is an old piece, but it has a special resonance,” says Davu with a smile. Symphony Its first European show will be at the festival on May 31.
The next night, June 1, LECOCTE will receive the Golden Lion Festival for Life.
Actors perform a scene from “Symphony for Rats”. Compliment: The Woster Group
Davu, who had a long relationship with Foreman and his physiological theater, will also take to the stage with what describes a “performance experience”, called No address, A piece written by Foreman last year.
Foreman communicated with Davu when he was not fine, he was on a wheelchair. “But he wanted to register for some of his writing. The thing that was interesting in Richard was sometimes, he simply wrote the phrases that he was interested in, which was his echo or his curiosity to take all these phrases and that he had cut it and paste it without any feeling of the personality or Mise en sceneDavu explains:
The piece is basically a text without a specific direction or without a specific letter. Then he will get the actors … He used to say, “Welm, I read these three lines, Kate, you read these two, Bob, I read this line. “It was a very strange way at work, but it was very beautiful because you see from the random, the stories will be made, and new contacts were not typical links to happen.”
Phrases such as “Tomorrow do not come” or “flat floozie” will be written on index cards and Foreman will mix them like paper. “We divided them and then goes back and forth with phrases, sometimes they do not communicate and sometimes they do not communicate. It is interesting to see how this happens. It is a live experience. Then, you modify the cards and do it again, and everything has a new meaning.”
Davu tells me that it and the Italian actress Simonita Solder (Nice defect, repeat the wedding of love), It will lead No address. “It is an interesting exercise in language, conversation and psychology … it's very rich, it is very simple. There is nothing but this game,” he says.
The piece will include excerpts from the registration that he and Foreman shot last year, then he will perform the running on the air, often in English, “then we will play a small role with the Italian cards.”
Theater is vital to Davu, and the path of life for society. “I think it is important as a place to meet together and know where we are and what can happen. Because somewhere between the epidemic and progress in technology, everyone lives in their small bubbles.”
“So the speech sometimes comes a little, and this has a negative effect at times because others can take care of business when everyone is busy in their small world. So the theater represents a place, in a very vital way, they meet and think about our place and think about a different reality from the reality that is actually given to us.”
“Therefore, it is a very concrete meeting for people somewhere, finds their common denominators, finding their differences, and discovering a better way to live,” it continues.“
DAFOE will look back over the past fifty years that have formed the theater in the Biennial.
Those who participated in the Tension Biennial in 1975, directed by the late Luka Ronconi, the famous Italian actor, and the director of theater, opera and opera on a large scale as “the cornerstone of the new theater experiences”
The festival will recognize the work of some of the artists who participated.
It includes Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley from Odin Teatret, a theatrical laboratory created in Olso, Norway in 1964, although he moved to Denmark two years later. They will be in Venice with their latest work, Le Nuvole Di Amleto.
Thomas Richards, who was the “primary collaborator” for 13 years with influential experimental theater artist Jerry Grootovsky, who died in 1999, will also be there. Richards will make the European first show Anna Through his new company theater, no theater.
Romeo Castilluchi, Director of the Italian Theater, Artist of theatrical Writer, the designer who previously collaborated with Dafoe, will work to show the first world to create the site, I am Mangiatori di Patatefor On the island of Lazzzaretto vecchio, the LERER colony is once a few meters from the western end of the Lido Venice.
In fact, Davu was overwhelmed by the possibility of using many different types of spaces, such as some large palace, as well as “the beautiful buildings that were once used for heavy charging and passengers, and such things. They are beautiful spaces, and now they were converted into beautiful places for people for gathering and performance.”
More contemporary theatrical artists, such as Thomas Ostermeier, Schaubühne director in Berlin, will present the Italian show for changes made by Maja Zade. The play, which faces a couple of societal pressures at home and at work, arose in Chopon last November. Between them, its members play in 23 letters.
Thomas Ostremere. Kent University
Ostermeier production from Chekhov Seag Currently works in Barbican, London, starring Kate Blanchett and Tom Burke, which can also be seen in Steven Soderbergh's Spy. Black bag. Seag Also stars Emma Corrin, Kodi Simet-Mabili, and Paul Bazley. Only to clarify: it will not be in the gun.
Milo Rao, coach of the Vienna Festival, will be in Venice with his new work VisionStarring Swiss actress Ursina Lardi, the winner of the Michael Hanik Festival, the winner White strip. Lardi plays a war photographer who travels to conflict areas all over the world looking for awe. Its views change when it is exposed to violence by itself.
Rao is based on his play on the stories of life for the mystical and Iraqi citizens, and includes the story of a teacher, Hassan Azad, who, while working in Mussol, cut his hand as punishment during the occupation of the Islamic State.
Rao asks: “What remains when he destroys war and terrorism world as we know,” and wondering whether “art can calm the suffering?”
Lardi will receive the Silver Lion Cup at a festival party on June 14.
Ursina Lardi. Compliment of Venice Pinal
Davide iODICE, from Primavera DIE Teatri in Casrovillary, will be provided by its doll PinocioWhich is the sub -title “What is the person”, which is performed by “different” youths who are affected by Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Williams syndrome, or Asperger syndrome, who bring many possible Pinocchios. a personality PinocioAl -Yadis notes, “Is it different, it is all the people who disagree, with their chaotic and sabotage taxes.”
Davo told me that he saw the show in Naples, “I moved and was involved from the moment I started.”
There are many other theater people participating in performances, lectures, workshops, exhibitions and video installations. There are no British in your list, I say. Shakespeare's birthplace and everything, what is happening?
“Well, I asked a couple, but they were very busy, I think.”
When he sees the outlook on my face, he smiles. “My dear”, he told me, “I asked, perhaps, perhaps next year. Well?”
During his opening period, he says he does not want to travel around “shopping” all over the world for projects, but rather wanted to program the artists he knew or who liked his work.
In 2026, he says: “I was already traveling to the theater places that I do not necessarily know, but the word” “” The “Tanna at this stage, I am still formed in my idea about theaters that really serve a society.”
He plans to assign new works to be implemented.
Outside the theater, Davu is preparing for the star with Tom Heidston in TeenzingThe story of Sherba Tenzeng Norway and the top of the historic mountain of Everest in 1953 alongside Edmund Hillary, which is depicted by Heidston.
Davo will play the role of Colonel John Hunt, the head of the campaign. “We will train and boil some mountains. So I am excited. It will be an adventure,” he says.
The film was directed by Jennifer Bedoum, which directed the wonderful documentary, TankWhich crossed the comment. Davo says that the film contains “Jameel” text written Lion.
