The Prose Season of the Donizetti Theater Foundation opens to contemporary dramaturgy with Building 3. Story of an Absurd Intent , a play written and directed by the Argentine Claudio Tolcachir, on stage in the main city theater from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, April 13. On stage: Rosario Lisma, Valentina Picello, Giorgia Senesi, Stella Piccioni, Luca Tanganelli. Translation by Rosaria Ruffini. Lighting by Claudio De Pace. Costumes by Giada Masi. Produced by Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Carnezzeria srls, Timbre4, in collaboration with Aldo Miguel Grompone. Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission. Show times: evening 8:30 PM; Sunday April 6 and 13 at 3:30 PM; Monday April 7 no performance.
Building 3. Story of an Absurd Intent is a comedy that tells the story of five characters who share the confined space of an office: their personal stories intertwine, with moments of emotion, grotesque effects, and comedy. There’s Sandra, a single woman who does everything to get pregnant (Giorgia Senesi); Ettore (Rosario Lisma), a fifty-year-old mama’s boy, who only after his mother’s death ventures into his first clumsy romantic experiences; there’s the confused, intrusive, affectionate Monica (Valentina Picello), who, not knowing how to live her own life, inserts herself into others’; there’s the conflicted love between Manuel, a fragile and violent boy (Luca Tanganelli) and the more balanced Sofia (Stella Piccioni).
Betrayals, misunderstandings, uncontrollable desires, dreams, and regrets: all of life unfolds before the eyes of the spectators, who recognize themselves in these stories, because Claudio Tolcachir knows how to put us in front of the mirror of our feelings. Written with great truth, the comedy is very funny, and portrays moving and comical characters. We are all the five inhabitants of Building 3. It’s us who regret our first love, who fight loneliness every day, who discover ourselves in mourning, who are betrayed by those we least expect, who can’t find the words, who lie to hide, whose pain makes us ridiculous, us, naive at fifty, disillusioned at twenty.
Well-known to Italian audiences as well, Claudio Tolcachir is a playwright, director, actor, and founder of Teatro Timbre 4 in Buenos Aires. In 2021, he founded Timbre 4 Madrid in the Spanish capital with Lautaro Perotti and Santi Marin. An undisputed protagonist of the new Argentine scene, acclaimed also in Spain, he achieved his first international success in 2005 with the multi-award-winning La Omisión de la Familia Coleman, presented in the most important capitals of the world, including Milan, Madrid, Paris, Lisbon, Dublin, New York, and still on tour. In 1998 he founded the TIMBRE4 company, since 2001 a multi-theater venue and acting school, a fundamental cultural reference point in Buenos Aires, with which he stages texts written and directed by him, such as: La omisión de la familia Coleman, Tercer cuerpo, El viento en un violín (which together form the “Living Room Trilogy”, collected in a volume and published in Italy by Editoria & Spettacolo, 2012), Emilia; then Dínamo and Próximo. He has been awarded numerous prizes: ACE, Clarín, María Guerrero, Teatro del Mundo y Teatro XXI, and was nominated for the Konex Prize as one of the best contemporary directors. In Italy in 2017 he won the UBU Award for Emilia, Best Foreign Text and Dramatic Writing. His works are performed in over 20 countries and have been translated and published in six languages. As a director, he has established himself in Argentina and South America and abroad both in the independent and official circuits, as well as in musical theater. In Spain he has directed: Todos eran mis hijos, Emilia, La verdad; Tierra del Fuego, Copenhague, La maquina de Turing. He has also directed the Catalan version of his most successful play, La omisión de la familia Coleman, for the Teatro Romea in Barcelona. In Italy, he directed Giulia Lazzarini in his text Emilia (2017). With Carnezzeria and Piccolo Teatro di Milano, he staged the Italian version of his play Tercer cuerpo ( Building 3. Story of an Absurd Intent ), rehearsing in Milan during the red zone in November 2020. The show premiered in October 2021 at the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato. As an instructor, Claudio Tolcachir directs acting and directing workshops and courses for students and professionals. He has also conducted workshops in New York, Venice, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Strasbourg, Lisbon, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo in Brazil, Montevideo in Uruguay, and beyond. Claudio Tolcachir was the Master of the École des Maîtres 2022.
