concept: Luigi de Angelis, Chiara Lagani
direction, lighting design and sound devices: Luigi de Angelis
dramaturgy and costumes: Chiara Lagani
set: Luigi de Angelis, Antonio Rinaldi
video images: Zapruder Filmmakersgroup
music: Morton Feldman and various artists
piano: Matteo Ramon Arevalos
with: Luigi de Angelis, Marco Cavalcoli, Chiara Lagani and with Sara Masotti
scene movements: Antonio Rinaldi
scenery and technical realization: Giovanni Cavalcoli with Marco Cavalcoli, Lucia Maestri, Marco Molduzzi, Antonio Rinaldi
synaesthesias: Maria Sebregondi
tailoring: Laura Graziani Alta Moda
catering: Marco Molduzzi with Anna Maria Bollettieri, Maria Antonietta d'Errico, Loretta Masotti
promotion: Sergio Carioli, Marco Molduzzi
press office: Marco Molduzzi
logistics: Sergio Carioli
administration: Antonietta Sciancalepore, Marco Cavalcoli
production: Fanny & Alexander and Ravenna Festival, with the cooperation of Festival delle Colline Torinesi, with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna
With thanks to: Gastone Bardetta, Stefano Bartezzaghi, Augusta Biaggi, Erik Borgman, Margherita Crepax, Compagnia Donati-Olesen, Andrea Catalano, Electa-Antichità di Maria Carla Costa, Enrico Fedrigoli, Monica Francia, Marina Grishakova, Gerardo Lamattina, Franco Masotti, Venerina and Adelmo Masotti, Paula Noah de Angelis, P-Bart, Daniele Perini, Elisabetta Rivalta, Symrise GmbH & Co. KG, Teatrino Clandestino

The excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov’s works, translated in Italian by Margherita Crepax, are used in accordance with The Vladimir Nabokov Estate

WHY IS IT SO HARD - HARD IN SUCH A DEGRADING WAY - TO BRING THE NOTION OF TIME INTO MENTAL FOCUS?

IS THERE ANY MENTAL URANIUM WHOSE DREAM-DELTA DECAY CAN BE USED TO MEASURE THE AGE OF A MEMORY?

WHAT WAS IT THAT GRABBED MY ARM AND COMFORTED ME WHEN I LOST A THOUGHT, A SHORT WHILE AGO?

MAY THE DEVASTATION AND OUTRAGE OF AGE REPROVED BY POETS TELL ANYTHING ABOUT THE REAL ESSENCE OF TIME?

HOW CAN I EXTRACT IT FROM ITS SOFT NICHE?

VAN I ADA:
(Van and Ada)

Here are two rocky ruin-crowned hills. We have kept them in mind for three years with decalcomaniac, romantic lividness. We have invested a fortune in them, in terms of cash and emotions. Ardis I, Ardis II, Villa Venus, Aqua Marina, Lucinda's Museum, oh, Speak, Memory, Speak!!! Memory will surely appreciate our own personal contributions. But now it's time to celebrate the long awaited nuptials: do you Ada Veen take as your lawfully wedded husband Van Veen, and do you Van take Ada, till death do you part?

VAN I ADA!

What now? Whatever can our lovers see now? Nothing. A field of untidy ruins to which they will make their own special contribution. Yes, we are in the middle of Eocene and the actors are fossils. They live in the desert. Their heart beats to the rhythm of the craziest natural catastrophe, a technological and political-criminal one. They stand in the middle of a colossal relict: their work, so distant, has already acquired the symbolical status of ruin. Their future can produce no more ruins. It doesn't have time.

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