ECCE ROBOT!

dramaturgy, direction, interpretation / Daniele Timpano

freely inspired by the work of Go Nagai

original music / Michela Gentili and Natale Romolo

light design and narrative voice / Marco Fumarola
audio editing / Lorenzo Letizia

editing and mixing / Marzio Venuti Mazzi
assistant director / Valentina Cannizzaro and Marco Fumarola
production / Amnesia Vivace

in collaboration with / Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi, Consorzio Ubusettete

 

I was a child, between the 70s and 80s, when the first Japanese cartoons arrived in Italy. It was the Italy of the massacres, of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, of the Red Brigades and of the rise of Silvio Berlusconi and his televisions, but this I didn't know yet. Unaware that I was in the middle of the lead years, I lived my childhood among steel robots. Inspired freely by the work of Go Nagai (Jeeg Robot, Goldrake, Mazinger) the show is the amused and self-critical story of a generation raised in front of the TV. An actor reconstructs the plot of an old Japanese cartoon. Inspired freely by the work of Go Nagai (among others, Goldrake, Jeeg Robot, Space Robot, Jet Robot, The Great Mazinger, Mazinger Z) the show traces the heroic imagery of a generation grown up in front of the TV in Italy in fragments of the massacres, the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, the Red Brigades, the rise of Silvio Berlusconi and his televisions. Between an account of the storylines of the individual episodes of Japanese cartoons (with particular attention to the screenplay by Mazinger Z) and the historical reconstruction of an invasion (that of the Japanese serials in public and private programming, but also that of television inside our heads), the show is amused and self-critical account of a generation who, unaware of living in the years of lead, grew among steel robot.