About Us
Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano are authors, directors and actors of the Italian contemporary scene who have shared a common artistic path since 2008. In the numerous works produced in recent years, Frosini / Timpano bring their bodies on the stage that defuse, deconstruct and embody the narratives of History, analyzing the anthropological drifts of society starting from a vast material of various references (from academic to popular) which constitute the contemporary imagination and consciousness. Their texts bring to the scene a complex theatrical device in which the actors-authors are always in dialogue with the public and in the balance between the incarnation of characters, contemporary and cultural mythologies, topoi of history, and the simple being on the scene and putting his perturbing relationship with History and culture on the field, in a game of unsettling slips that desecrate all rhetoric without making discounts, not even to themselves. "Our dialogue with the public is based on co-existence with the spectators, on what we share with you, here, today: the same hypocrisy, the same clichés, the same fears, the same neuroses, the same fate."
Their works have been represented in the most important theaters, festivals, and performative contexts in Italy and abroad.
Among the shows before their collaboration we mention: Dux in scatola (2006) finalist at the Scenario and Vertigine Awards, published by Coniglio in 2006 and by Hystrio in 2008, and Ecce robot! (2007) by Daniele Timpano, Reperto # 01 (2006) finalist at the VDA Prize in 2006, and Buffet (2007) by Elvira Frosini.
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From 2008 they began their artistic union giving life to important projects: the first work signed together is Sì l'ammore no (2009) finalist at the Dante Cappelletti / Tuttoteatro.com Prize in 2009, followed by Risorgimento pop (written with Marco Andreoli, from 2009 ), Ciao bella (2010), Digerseltz (2012), Aldo morto - tragedy (2012), shows represented in many Italian festivals. Dux in box, Risorgimento Pop and Aldo morto were translated and presented in Paris as part of the "Face à Face" project at the Theatre de la Ville (2011) and at the Theatre de la Colline (2015). Dux in scatola, Risorgimento Pop and Aldo morto compose a trilogy published by Titivillus in 2012 with the title Storia cadaverica d'Italia . The show Aldo morto was nominated for the Ubu Prize in 2012 as the best dramaturgical novelty and won the 2012 Critical Network Award. In 2013 they carried out the Aldo morto 54 project with the Teatro dell'Orologio in Rome and Fondazione Romaeuropa (54 days of repeats of the show Aldo dead and 54 days of self-reclusion by Daniele Timpano streaming in a cell specially rebuilt in the theater). Aldo morto 54 won the 2013 Nico Garrone Award.
In the autumn of 2012 they were invited by the Teatro di Roma to participate in the Perdutamente project during which they started working on the new Zombitudine project, a show on contemporary social and cultural collapse. The work debuted in 2013 at the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa and was then presented at the Romaeuropa Festival in 2014 and on a long tour throughout Italy. In 2014 and 2015 they participated as authors and interpreters in the project Portrait of a capital by Antonio Calbi and Fabrizio Arcuri, created by the Teatro di Roma at the Teatro Argentina, with their work Alla città morta. First epistle to the Romans. In 2016 they created Carne , based on a text commissioned to Fabio Massimo Franceschelli, the first work of a special project that involves the creation of works on texts commissioned to contemporary Italian or foreign authors. From 2015 they started to work on the new show Acqua di colonia on the removal of Italian colonialism and the Italian and western imagination about Africa. The show debuted in November 2016 at the Romaeuropa Festival, has continued its long tour throughout Italy for four years, and was nominated in 2017 for the UBU Award for "Best Italian dramaturgical novelty", and was selected by Eurodram 2018.
In 2018 they create a new show on the dramaturgy of another French contemporary author, David Lescot: the show Gli Sposi. romanian tragedy , created with the co-production of the Fabulamundi project. Playwriting Europe debuted in the season of the Teatro di Roma in November 2018. Gli Sposi was nominated for the Ubu Awards 2019.
Their Playwright Ottantanove (Eighty nine) won the Riccione Prize "Franco Quadri" 2019, and has been presented in Spanish for Nueva Escena Italiana at the Italian Istitute of Culture of Madrid in May 2021 and was the winner of two PREMI UBU 2022 as best italian Play and as best actor to Marco Cavalcoli.
They worked for RadioTre Rai in the broadcast "Rombi tuoni scoppi scrosci thuds boom", made for the centenary of Italian Futurism, in "Diari di guerra", series of readings made for the centenary of the Great War, and "Io vado via" by Diaries from the archives of Pieve Santo Stefano and DIMMI, Multimedia Migranti diaries. In 2014 Rai5 made a documentary about them in the cycle "Rome: the new dramaturgy".
They created and produced the Generatore X Project (2004-2007), Uovo - performative space (2004-2007), the independent Roman review Ubu Settete (2003-2007), the Novo Critico project - meetings between critics and the new contemporary scene (2008 -2010), and since 2010 they have created Ecce Performer - training and creation project for the contemporary scene.
They are constantly active in teaching and training in Rome and in Italy.
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Prizes and Awards
Premio UBU2022"Best Italian Play" Ottantanove
Premio UBU 2022"Best Actor" a Marco Cavalcoli Ottantanove
Premio UBU 2021to the Project INDIFFERITA
Premio Rete Critica 2020to the Project INDIFFERITA
Premio UBU 2019 Nomination as "Best Foreign Play" Gli Sposi
Premio Riccione "Franco Quadri" 2019to Ottantanove
Eurodram 2018 to Acqua di colonia
Premio UBU 2017 Nomination "Best Italian Play"con Acqua di colonia
Face à face -paroles d'Italie pour les scènes de France 2015 to Aldo morto
Premio Nico Garrone 2013 to Aldo morto 54
Premio UBU 2012 Nomination as "Best Italian Play" to Aldo morto
Premio Rete Critica 2012 Best Italian Play con Aldo morto
Face à face -paroles d'Italie pour les scènes de France 2011 to Dux in scatola
Premio Vertigine 2010 Nomination Best Italian Play Dux in scatola
Premio Tuttoteatro Dante Cappelletti 2008 Nomination to Sì l'ammore no
Premio VDA 2006 Nomination Best Play Reperto#01
Premio VDA 2005Best Play Caccia 'l dragoPremio Scenario 2005 Nomination Dux in scatola
