PROJECT
Recipients: people of the 8th municipality of Naples (Piscinola, Marianella, Chiaiano, Scampia)

“We both grew up in the streets of the two biggest cities of early post-soviet Lithuania when life was at times pretty wild – say Rimantas Ribaciauskas and Mantas Jančiauskas –. Maybe this is the reason why we are often attracted to hard social topics, stories from the margins and areas with problems. It fascinates us how Scampia is portrayed in the media and international news, but we feel, even though we never visited Naples before, that the image of the area is quite one-sided. So we are coming to Scampia and to the buildings of Le Vele to connect with locals and locate stories that would tell more than the media. If our research is successful, we hope that something interesting can grow out of it”.

TEATRI ASSOCIATI NAPOLI OPEN REHEARSAL: 1 DECEMBER H 8.00 PM
TAN – TEATRO AREA NORD
DIRECTION RIMANTAS RIBACIAUSKAS, MANTAS JANČIAUSKAS AND LELLO SERAO
IN COLLABORATION WITH LITHUANIAN CULTURE INSTITUTE, ROME

RIMANTAS RIBACIAUSKAS AND MANTAS JANČIAUSKAS
Lithuania
Rimantas is a writer and producer for theatre and digital media.
He holds a MA in Audio-visual Art from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and MSc in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin. For several years Ribačiauskas worked in Lithuanian National Drama Theatre where he produced and wrote or co-wrote several documentary performances. Mantas graduated with a degree in directing studies from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In the Young Directors Program of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, he presented the play In the Republic of Happiness by British playwright Martin Crimp, also staging the documentary performances Dreamland and Marius Repšys on Stage in the same theater.

LELLO SERAO
Naples
He began his professional experience by founding the Teatro dei Mutamenti in Naples. He started the associations Eutopia and Teatro dei Sassi. He is the artistic director of Libera Scena Ensemble, and currently the co-artistic director of the Teatro Area Nord and of Teatri Associati di Napoli. In 1987 he resumed his collaboration with Renato Carpentieri, a partnership that lasted until 2012, whenever MUSEUM closed. He participates as actor in more than 30 movies and television productions. As a theatre director, he distinguishes himself for his capacity to range between innovation and tradition. He joined several training projects as pedagogue.

THE CONTEXT
Teatri Associati Di Napoli
The desire to shorten the gap between the center and the peripheries, through a cultural proposal capable of attracting different audiences, marked in 2014 the foundation of Teatri Associati di Napoli. The first step started by the creation of a new entity that gathered by then the experience and professionalism of Libera Scena Ensemble and Interno5. Today Teatri Associati di Napoli is a well-established reality and a focal point for residency activities, which has been found in the organizational management and artistic offer provided by the Teatro Area Nord its core business, realized through bonds to city, national and international partners.