Frankenstein (History of Hate) – Studio

Motus

THEATRE, OPEN STUDIOS, RESIDENCIES

05.09

ISTITUTO DON BOSCO
6:00PM
DURATION 30′

ITA

RESIDENCY PROJECT FROM 14.7 TO 24.7 2025

With this final movement of the Frankenstein project, we extend the “mapping of horror” conceived by the monstrous mind of a very young Mary Shelley, shifting the focus to the moment when the creature begins to perceive itself as irrevocably excluded from the apparent bliss of humankind, who reject it solely for its non-conforming appearance.

This final act revolves around that terrible click that turns love into hatred, benevolence into violence. Among the flames of the Promethean fire that runs through this second act, the creature’s voice is overlaid by other voices / testimonies / “confessions” of young people encountered in different contexts.

Credits

Idea and direction by Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande

With: Tomiwa Samson Segun Aina, Yuan Hu, Enrico Casagrande
On video: Silvia Calderoni and Alexia Sarantopoulou
Dramaturgy: Daniela Nicolò
Research and dramaturgical collaboration: Ilenia Caleo
Video shooting and editing: for the stage Vladimir Bertozzi
Music: Demetrio Cecchitelli
Assistant directors: Astrid Risberg, Juliann Louise Larsen, Eduard Popescu
Video assistant: Isabella Marino
Music: Demetrio Cecchitelli
Set and costumes: Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande
Lighting and video design: Simona Gallo and Theo Longuemare
Soundscapes: Enrico Casagrande
Sound: Martina Ciavatta

Production: Francesca Raimondi
Organization and logistics: Shaila Chenet and Alessandro Patrini
Promotion: Ilaria Depari and Beatrice Ottaviani
International distribution: Lisa Gilardino
Communications: Dea Vodopi
Press: UC studio

A production by Motus in collaboration with Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / National Theatre, Teatro Nazionale di Genova, Snaporazverein (CH), and Romaeuropa Festival

Artistic residencies hosted by AMAT & Comune di Fabriano, Sardegna Teatro, and IRA Institute

Bio

Motus was founded in 1991 in Rimini by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò and has since produced works that confront the harshest contradictions of our present.

The ensemble’s work – spanning theater, performances, installations, seminars e workshops – has been presented across Europe and worldwide.

The company’s directors served as artistic directors for the pandemic-edition 50th anniversary of Santarcangelo Festival, and currently curate Supernova, a contemporary performance art festival in Rimini.