Old Age Cycle
La Burla
Circus comedy
La Burla
50 min. | indoor theatre spaces | +5 years | creation 2023
Inside a toy store, three old owners are dealing with declining sales, low attendance, and changes that are too fast for their tired legs. La Burla is not just a business that gives way to multinationals; it is the dream of three friends, their world, their life in contrast with the strong wind of innovation trying to slam their doors shut. A simple, poetic and entertaining story told through the magic of circus, which finds its natural habitat in the fragility of life..
Recommended for theatre festivals for the younger generations, Sunday shows and evening festival for adults.
The team
Credits
by and with Andrea Brunetto, Max Pederzoli and Alessio Pollutri
directed by Andrea Fidelio
outside eye Mario Gumina
costumes and set design Elettra Del Mistro
magical effects Luca Mercatelli / Creativity LAB
Madame Rebiné production
with the support of Ministry of Culture, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, City of San Quirino, Tuscany Residency Center (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt), IntercettAzioni Residency Center/Circuito CLAPS, We Art 3/Artists in Residence Vicenza – Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, Flic circus school (Turin), Cirko Vertigo Foundation.
other artistic residencies
Manicomics Teatro (Piacenza), Festival Brocante (Frisanco), MaMiMò (Reggio Emilia), Teatro Dario Fo (Camponogara).
Thematic focus
Old Age Cycle
Since 2011, Madame Rebiné has been exploring the figure of the elderly as a poetic and comic icon, a natural clown filled with human contrasts: gentleness and harshness, altruism and selfishness, suffering and euphoria, fear and recklessness. This gives rise to performances and projects that give voice, space and dignity to the elderly.