PROJECT
Recipients: young people from the eastern area of Naples

With the young theatre company of Nest, Jana hold an extreme listening workshop. It is a method that leads artists to autonomous creation based on the principle of mutual respect. The actors themselves on stage control the lights and sound and decide when to speak. The text was created in the form of interviews with the director and it will be performed in the Neapolitan language.
“Together, we created a production that is a colorful probe into the fates of nine young people from Naples – says Svododová. I am proud to be able to stage Why not me? not only at the Quartieri di vita festival in Naples, but also at our hometown Prague, in Archa Theatre within the Akcent Festival 2022”.

NEST PERFORMANCE: 25 NOVEMBER H 21.00
NEST NAPOLI EST TEATRO
DIRECTOR JANA SVOBODOVÁ
DRAMATURG ANDREA VELLOTTI
COPRODUCED BY ARCHA THEATRE, NEST NAPOLI EST TEATRO, FONDAZIONE CAMPANIA DEI FESTIVAL – QUARTIERI DI VITA. LIFE INFECTED WITH SOCIAL THEATRE!, WITH THE SUPPORT OF ITALIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ITALIAN EMBASSY IN PRAGUE, ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN PRAGUE, AND CZECH CENTRE IN ROME

JANA SVOBODOVÁ
Czech Republic
Graduating from the Prague Theater Academy she has directed projects with South Africans, asylum seekers, hip hop communities, and graffiti artists, but also with Chinese immigrants, Roma communities, and new and old generations of emigrants in the USA and of Russians who moved to the Czech Republic. She is the artistic director and teacher of Archa.Lab, a center for theatrical research, and since 2010 she has directed AKCENT – International Festival of the Documentary Theater. She is co-founder and teacher of the International Summer School of Theater in Social Context. She currently works at Those Who…, a project based on the testimonies of 13 women from different social backgrounds.

ANDREA VELLOTTI
Naples
He is a Neapolitan actor and director; born in 1982, and in 2008 he graduated as actor from the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico, where he studied with Lindsay Kemp, Emma Dante, Valerio Binasco, Peter Clough, Luca Ronconi, Anna Marchesini, Lorenzo Salveti, Charlotte Munkso, Danio Manfredini, and Roberto Romei.
He was assistant director of the play Gomorra by Roberto Saviano and Mario Gelardi; he is one of the founders of the Nest Theatre in San Giovanni a Teduccio.

THE CONTEXT
NEST – Napoli Est Teatro
The NEST Napoli Est Teatro was born from the artistic and professional encounter between the actors Francesco Di Leva, Adriano Pantaleo, Giuseppe Gaudino, and Andrea Vellotti, the director and author Giuseppe Miale di Mauro and the set designer Carmine Guarino. The staging of Gomorra show, in 2007, produced by the Teatro Stabile di Napoli, pushed them to join artistic forces and civil conscience for a thick theatre that brings commitment, communication, and cultural
growth. Since then, continuing to share and engage in artistic activism, the group became larger, adding other professionals in the field of theatre management and networking with numerous national and local theatre companies.