The theatrical event “La notte” by Elie Wisiel in Trieste.

The theatrical event “La notte” by Elie Wisiel in Trieste.

Trieste, Tuesday September 19 and, in second reply, Wednesday 20 September 2023 at 21 pm in the internal courtyard of National Monument of the San Sabba Rice Mill the theatrical event will be held La Notte, Manufactured by Zeta Archive and based on the autobiographical novel La Nuit by Elie Wiesel, survived the Shoah e Nobel Peace Prize 1986.

The special initiative is part of cultural program 1943-2023. Intertwined threads of memory, promoted by City of Trieste – Department of Cultural Policies and Tourism on the occasion of the eightieth anniversaries which occur this year, fromArmistice of 8 September at the departure of the first convoy of racial deportees from Trieste on 7 December. The events are organized by the San Sabba Rice Mill Museum – National Monument with the contribution of Ministry of Culture.

THE NOTTE

La Nuit by Elie Wiesel (Éditions de Minuit), translation of Daniel Vogelmann (Editrice La Giuntina), dramaturgy and direction by Gianluca Guidotti and Enrica Sangiovanni with Diana Dardi, Pouria Jashn Tirgan, Giuseppe Losacco, Andrea Maffetti, Enrica Sangiovanni, Giacomo Tamburini with the participation in the video by Elie Wiesel, filming by Gianluca Guidotti, Francesco Lagi , Stefano Tognarelli, video editing and editing by Federica Toci, Andrea Sangiovanni, an Archivio Zeta production.

Multimedia theater project created by Zeta Archive, The Night is based on the autobiographical novel by Elie Wiesel, deported with his family to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister died, and then to Buchenwald together with his father, who died here shortly before the camp was liberated. Translated into over thirty languages, La Nuit is among the most important testimonies on the Shoah and, at the same time, a profound reflection on the existence of God. Elie Wiesel, founder of United States Holocaust Memorial Council e Nobel Peace Prize 1986, authorized the theatrical adaptation of his novel for the first time and collaborated on the Archivio Zeta project by reading some of the most shocking parts in the video insert of the show.

La Notte, after numerous successes in Italy, arrives for the first time in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

Free admission. Limited seats.

Reservation is recommended at risierasansabba@comune.trieste.it.

In case of bad weather the show will be held in the Hall of Commemorations.

Information: 

www.risierasansabba.it www.archiviozeta.eu risierasansabba@comune.trieste.it

The night – Director's notes

«So let's try to take a little silence, a few words and let's talk». This is the incipit, on video, of the Archivio Zeta theater show. Not really a show, perhaps a hypothesis, to tell the unspeakable subject of The Night. The actors give voice to Words of Silence by Elie Wiesel. Like an orchestra, they rehearse, hold the scores in their hands, pursue a monodic canon. Six actors acting in the white tragic space, like shadows recalled by memory, like sparks that illuminate the words. Six actors plus one witness testify in this trial of history, of the black hole of the twentieth century. Space is the manuscript sheet in Yiddish of the first page of And the world was silent, the first draft of The Night, cut by the editors, which Wiesel himself rewrote for the Zeta Archive: «In the beginning there was faith, childish; and trust, vain; and the illusion, dangerous. We believed in God, we had faith in man, and we lived in the illusion that, within each of us, a sacred spark of the flame of shekhinah was deposited, that each of us carried in our eyes and soul a reflection of the image of God. This was the source if not the cause of all our misfortunes.". Elie Wiesel is the seventh arm of the Menorah, the candelabra, symbol of the Jewish religion, is the central focus of the performance. The actors are the arms of this imaginary candelabrum and apply, together with Wiesel, solfeggio: the silence, the words, the emptiness, the gesture.

Elie Wiesel:

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now the area of ​​Romania on the border with Ukraine). He was fifteen years old when, with his family, he was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister die, the two older sisters are saved. Elie and her father are later brought to Buchenwald, where the father dies shortly before the camp is liberated in April of 1945. After the war studies in Paris and becomes a journalist. An interview with Francois Mauriac persuades him to write about his experiences in the extermination camps. The result is The night, appreciated throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. In the 1978 the American President Jimmy Carter appoints him responsible for Holocaust Commission and in 1980 Wiesel establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the founder ofUniversal Academy of Cultures Paris. He defends many causes with great tenacity: Russian Jews, Miskito Indians from Nicaragua, Argentine desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, Kurds, victims of hunger in Africa and apartheid in South Africa, victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Since 1976 he has been a professor of human sciences both at BostonUniversity. Author of more than forty books, he has received numerous awards for his literary activity and in favor of human rights, including in 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. A few months later, together with his wife Marion, he founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He dies at New York in 2016.

Zeta Archive:

Zeta Archive it is an association Founded in 1999 da Gianluca Guidotti ed Enrica Sangiovanni, independent authors and producers of cultural work. In 2003 they created the Gothic Line Project staging tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Karl Kraus, Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Germanic Military Cemetery of Futa, the largest German shrine in Italy, on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. Among the works staged we highlight: The Persians by Aeschylus, Antigone by Sophocles, Oresteia by Aeschylus (2010-2013): Agamemnon, Coefore, Eumenides. This project received theHigh patronage of the President of the Republic and it was also taken to other places of Memory: Montesole/Marzabotto, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Asiago. Archivio Zeta also produced the Project on the Shoah The Night by Elie Wiesel (2002), consisting of a theater show and the film Viaggio nella Notte in which he collaborated Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel reading some passages of his testimony. He conceived and produced La Zona Grigia by Primo Levi with the Monte Sole Peace School. For the Centenary of the First World War it debuted in 2014 The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus. From 2014 to 2016 you had an intense collaboration with the Volterra Theater Festival carrying out theater projects and workshops with citizens. In 2014 he won the Critics Network Award. Since 2014 the organizational headquarters has moved to Bologna where it collaborates with the Municipality of Bologna on the programming of summer shows and festivals within Bologna Estate and the calendar of cultural activities and with ERT Emilia Romagna Theater Foundation carrying out residential production projects and educational work with schools. In 2019 you created and directed the Nidi di ragno project for the Emilia Romagna Region/Memory of the 900th century. From 2019 to 2021 he debuted at Teatro delle Moline in Bologna and subsequently to Futa Pass Military Cemetery the three-year Dostoevskji Topography project. The first part of the three-year project dedicated to The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and in 2023, as part of an artistic residency aimed at the regeneration of Villa Aldini in Bologna, he debuts Bacchae by Euripides.