Ecosystems of

Theatre and Performance

 

Publishing of the outcomes

Partnership with the Institute of the Arts Barcelona within the

Culture Moves Europe Programme (28 October - 1 December 2024)

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Mise en Abyme is delighted to have partnered with the IAB - Institute of the Arts Barcelona in the Culture Moves Europe programme, funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut, for the period 28 October to 1 December as part of IAB residency initiative, Ecosystem of Theatre and Performance. Through consultancy and mentorship, Mise en Abyme supported the resident artists Avra Sidiropoulou, Claudio Boschi, Marta Keller, João Pecegueiro, and Livia Massarelli.

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We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of two experimental scripts by two of the resident artists: Claudio Boschi and João Pecegueiro.

 

This publication, set for release in January 2025, is one of the key outcomes of Boschi and Pecegueiro's activities during the residency, developed in collaboration with experts, consultants, and peer artists such as Oscar Valsecchi, Martin Lewton, and Lea Marks.

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The artists/authors

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​​​Claudio Boschi

Director, Actor, Voice Artist, Playwright

Artist in Residence at the IAB

Culture Moves Europe

28th October – 1st December 2024

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Claudio Boschi is an Italian director, actor, voice artist and playwright based in Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples “Federico II”, then obtained a diploma in dubbing, and underwent training with artists such as Orlando Cinque, Argentinian director Agostina Luz Lopez – in the international programme of Betsud Beyond The South –, and others. After various television experiences, including “La squadra”, “Il Commissario Rex”, and recently “Mina Settembre”, as well as cinematic (“Martin Eden” by Pietro Marcello) and radio work as a voice actor, he has almost entirely dedicated himself to theater and live performance, an artistic dimension in which he is most involved.

Over the years, he has worked on many shows, exploring different paths that have led him to tackle both the repertoire of classical theater and contemporary Italian and foreign dramaturgy, with particular attention to popular theater. Always very attentive to the formative phase of the actor, he has perfected his skills in various master classes focused on acting work, voice use, text reading and interpretation, thus demonstrating a keen interest in study and research.

Active as a director as well as an actor, in 2018 he signed his first foreign direction with “Children are Children”, an international project on “Filumena Marturano” based on the English translations by Eric Bentley and Carlo Ardito. The project was sponsored by the International Network of Italian Theatres. Among his credits, he has been featured several times at prestigious festivals such as the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, with shows including “Stasera c’è spettacolo? To play” and as the protagonist of “Celeste” by Fabio Pisano, presented at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2018 and in various venues including the Teatro Bellini in Naples. In 2021, he starred in the award-winning short film “Amarena”. He collaborates regularly with the award-winning playwright Fabio Pisano, winner of the Hystrio Award and finalist for the Riccione Prize. He published the play “Scacco” and he is working at the moment on a authored monologue play dedicated to Ernest Hemingway.

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João Pecegueiro

Actor, Playwright, Lighting/Video Designer

Artist in Residence at the IAB

Culture Moves Europe

28th October – 1st December 2024

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João Pecegueiro holds a Master of Arts with distinction from Liverpool John Moores University (2022; Academic Award). Professional Theater School of Cascais (2017). Post-Graduate Degree in Media, Technology & Performance at the School of Higher Education in Theater and Cinema, Lisbon (2023; Next Level Higher Education for All Merit Scholarship). He is light and video designer at A BARACCA Theatre in Lisbon. He develops work in the performing arts, in both creative and technical fields. As an artist, he has combined original texts with new technologies, utilizing design and real-time manipulation tools, as well as interactive systems, complementing traditional spaces and conventions, in pursuit of a symbiosis between these aspects in the shows and performances he creates. He has signed the creations, text, and design of “Basic Notions of Theatre Very Well Explained #1: Character,” “The Hospital Receptionist and his Wife,” “Freya’s Story to an Unborn Baby and an Audience,” and “Why Doesn’t the Madman Dance?”, premiered in Barcelona, and “Hay Copistas en el Prado” and “AUDIÇÕES um manual de sobrevivência – considerando A Arte de Resolver Homicídios Depois de os Planear,” premiered in Lisbon. He has collaborated with companies such as the Experimental Theatre of Cascais, Comuna – Theater of Research, La Tristura, La Petite Mort, Marionet Teatro, Foco Lunar, A Barraca; and with directors such as Carlos Avilez, João Mota, Beatriz Batarda, Rodrigo Aleixo, Lucas França, Drew Mulligan, Violeta Gil, Celso Giménez, Sara Mérida, Oscar Valsecchi, Diogo Bento, Inês Vaz, Martin Lewton, Vasco Letria, and Maria do Céu Guerra. He was an assistant director for the shows “Penetrador” (Rodrigo Aleixo, 2018), and “Hipotenusa” (João Henriques, 2018). He received additional training with Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), Molly Taylor-Taylor, Pep Garcia-Pascual, Jorge Silva Melo, Mario Biagini, Hajo Schüler, José Manuel Castanheira, Ayse Tashkiran, Cathleen McCarron, Pascal Rambert, Diogo Bento, Cláudia Jardim, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Miguel Loureiro, André de Campos, and Nuno Cardoso, among others. He is currently preparing to participate as actor in the rehearsal of the 24-hour durational performance “The Second Woman” (created by Nat Randall & Anna Breckon), premiering in July at the Grec Festival in Barcelona.