5th Episode of 8 ½ Theater Clips on COVID-19 Screened at Italian Embassy
IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK
TEHRAN – Embassy of Italy on Wednesday screened the 5th episode of “8 ½ Theater Clips. How COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Our Lives Video Series” with Italian Ambassador H.E. Giuseppe Perrone in attendance.
Addressing the guests in the screening of the video clip, Italian Ambassador H.E. Perrone explained the goals behind producing such video clips in the time of pandemic.
He then said “Alone” was the title of the fifth episode of the series “8 1/2 Theatre Clips. How Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Our Lives” which was , a virtual production by the Italian Embassy in Tehran in cooperation with the Italian theatre company ‘Instabili Vaganti’ and the Iranian company “Don Quixote”.
The episode, directed by Anna Dorno in collaboration with Ali Shams and performed by Nicola Pianzola and Danial Kheirikhah on the musical notes by Riccardo Nanni, describes the absence of social interaction during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The narrating voices in Farsi by Danial Kheirikhah and in Italian by Nicola Pianzola describe a “new normal” made of closed theatres and lonely performers. The powerful images of Kheirikhah looking for lost handshakes and hugs and of a confused Pianzola while standing on an empty stage without spectators in a Northern Italian small town theater, deliver a feeling of loneliness, emptiness and distance.
The theatre series is based on an original idea by the Italian Embassy in Tehran and “Instabili Vaganti”.
The ambassador expressed hope that producing such video clips would boost cultural cooperation between both countries and also help the society come out of the isolation caused by the pandemic.
Meanwhile First Secretary of Italian Embassy Ms. Yaroslava Romanova briefed the guests in the screening of the episode, saying that three more episode are in the pipeline and the sixth episode will come late November.
She also noted that those who are interested to watch the other screened episodes can watch them on the social media addresses of the embassy. “Alone”, as well as the previous episodes “Don’t Call Me a Hero”, “Notes of Absence”, “The Night Shift” and “Beyond the Mirror”, can be watched on YouTube, Twitter and Instagram channels of the Italian Embassy in Tehran, she added.
At the end of the screening of the episode, the participants exchanged views on the screened work as well as the current pandemic condition.
Meanwhile Iranian director of the episode Mr. Shakri briefed the participants of the goals behind making such videos.
