MERCOLEDÌ DELLE CENERI
The monsters you wore on Tuesday, you take off on Wednesday, but they are always there, they live there, inside you.
On Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, a provincial town celebrates Carnival with parades of allegorical floats, dances, and festive rituals. Amidst the general merriment, the grotesque parade of amateur effigies and puppets set on fire reveals a fierce "masked" community and the misdeed that had stained the town some time ago, amidst the habits of familial and social violence, abuses, and false repentance that cyclically repeat like the festival.
with: Alessandro Bernardini, Fabio Camassa, Luca Carrieri, Matteo Cateni, Chiara Cavalieri, Viola Centi, Massimiliano De Rossi, Roberto Fiorentino, Marcello Fonte, Sofia Iacuitto, Gabriella Indolfi, Giulio Maroncelli, Claudia Marsicano, Giancarlo Porcacchia, Cristina Vagnoli, Camila Urbano
assistant director Bruno Mello Castanho
costumes Mari Caselli
assistant to costumes Costanza Solaro Del Borgo
effigies Mari Caselli e Costanza Solaro Del Borgo
dressmaker Iris Ros
latex heads Gemelli Magrì
scenographic design Valentina Esposito
pupazza Edoardo Timmi
make up Mari Caselli
music Luca Novelli
light Alessio Pascale
sound designer Simone Colaiacomo
photo Ilaria Giorgi
press office Carla Fabi e Roberta Savona
A production by Fort Apache Cinema Teatro.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture, Otto per Mille Funds of the Waldensian Church,
Sapienza University of Rome - Third Mission Project 2023-2024. In collaboration with the Guarantor for persons subject to restrictive measures of personal freedom of Lazio, Artisti 7607, Città dell'Altra Economia - CAE.
Director's Notes:
Ash Wednesday is a story of popular violence. One of those stories that can be told everywhere and to everyone, one of those stories that even children understand, so well-known, so familiar, but that everyone needs to hear again because every time, as if by miracle, they forget it… every time they listen to it, recognize it, and then forget it, as if they had never heard it, as if they had never known it. Even though they are everyday stories, which repeat every day, along the streets, inside houses, within families. And one must always start from the beginning.
