GIORNATE D’AUTORE

FOCUS ALEXANDER ZELDIN

Conversation between the author and Florian Borchmeyer

Reading from The other place
directed by Nicoletta Robello
with Luchino Giordana, Stefano Guerrieri, Irene Paloma Jona, Laura Mazzi, Elisabetta Mirra, Salvo Pappalardo, Francesca Tripaldi
translated by Monica Capuani

TEATRO DUE – Shakespeare 1

1st NOVEMBER, 11 am

Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demand justice for the pain she carries.

Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family’s competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?

Using Sophocles’ Antigone as his jumping off point, and preserving the classical unities, with The other place writer and director Alexander Zeldin confronts the madness of grief within a dysfunctional modern family.

Alexander Zeldin is a writer and director for theater and film whose work has been performed in 16 countries and presented by the leading international arts festivals. In 2024, he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. His work in theater as writer and director includes Prendre Soin, a Compagnie A Zeldin production on international tour; The Other Place, at the National Theatre in association with A Zeldin Company; The Confessions, an A Zeldin Company/Compagnie A Zeldin Production, at the National Theatre and on international tour; Faith, Hope and Charity and LOVE at the National Theatre and on international tours; Beyond Caring at Hackney Yard, National Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Chicago, and currently in repertory at the Schaubühne, Berlin; and Une mort dans la famille at Odéon Théâtre de L’Europe and on international tour. Film includes LOVE. Awards and nominations include Quercus Trust Award, Arts Foundation Fellowship, and seven Drama Desk Awards nominations. Zeldin was selected by the Schaubühne as the Artist-in-Focus for their 2024 Festival of International New Drama (FIND). In 2019, he established his own theater company, A Zeldin Company, to produce his work and tour it internationally, and in 2022, he founded Compagnie A Zeldin in France.