Pippo Delbono

Pippo Delbono (June 1st, 1959 in Varazze, Italy) is an Italian author, actor, and director.

Biography

Pippo Delbono began training in traditional theatre in Denmark,[1] studying the principles of oriental theatre, through a rigorous work on body and voice. Later, in Germany, Delbono was invited by Pina Bausch[2] to follow her work. At the beginning of the 80's he founded the Compagnia Pippo Delbono, creating most of his works with them, from Il Tempo degli Assassini (1987) to La Gioia (2018).[3]

He does not stage plays[4] but, rather, total creations, devised with a stable group of actors whose number has grown through the years. The encounter with socially marginalized people determines a turning point in his poetical research: that's how Barboni (1997) was born.[5] Some of these actors – among them Bobò,[6] deaf-mute, who had been kept in an asylum in Aversa, near Naples, for forty-five years and recently passed away – have kept working with the company and are still a central part of this experience.

The works that followed — La rabbia dedicated to Pasolini, Guerra, Esodo, Gente di plastica, Racconti di giugno, Urlo, Il silenzio, Questo buio feroce, La menzogna, Dopo la battaglia,[7] Orchidee,[8] Vangelo, La gioia — like the ones before, have been performed worldwide in more than fifty countries, in theaters and festivals, including the Festival d'Avignon (where a lot of the company's creations were presented),[9] Barcelona's Grec, Theater Spektakel in Zurich, Festwochen in Wien, Festival TransAmeriques in Montreal, Venice Biennale, etc.

Several theatres, including the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris,[10] Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Teatro Argentina in Rome, among others, present regularly his performances. Henry V — his only creation based on an existing play – is the only Italian production of Shakespeare that has ever been invited to perform at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[11] His production Vangelo (2016) has been realized at Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb[12] with actors of his company together with Croatian actors, dancers, musicians and chorus and with refugees of the PIAM refugee camp in Asti (Italy). The performance has two versions: Opera with chorus and orchestra, that premiered in Italy at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Drama version, that premiered at Thèatre Vidy - Lausanne. The music of the performance are by Enzo Avitabile who won the Ubu Prize[13] for them. His last theatre creation, La gioia, premiered in March 2018 and has been presented at Theatre Olympics in Delhi and Bhopal (India), at Hong Kong Arts Festival, in Shizuoka (Japan), in Tunisia, Spain, Portugal.[14] and it will be on tour in the theatrical season 2021/2022.

Theatre
  • Il tempo degli assassini (1987)
  • Morire di musica (1989)
  • Il Muro (1990)
  • Henry V, inspired by the text of William Shakespeare (1992)
  • La rabbia (1995)
  • Barboni (1997)
  • Itaca (1998)
  • Guerra (1998)
  • Her bijit (1999)
  • Esodo (1999)
  • Il silenzio (2000)
  • Gente di plastica (2002)
  • Urlo (2004)
  • Racconti di Giugno (2005)
  • Questo Buio Feroce (2006)
  • La Menzogna (2008)
  • Amore e carne (2011)
  • Rosso Bordeaux (2011)
  • Dopo la battaglia (2011)
  • Erpressung / Il ricatto (2012)
  • Orchidee (2013)
  • Vangelo (2016)
  • La gioia (2018)

Opera

Awards
  • 1997 - Premio Ubu

Special Prize for Barboni

  • 1998 - Italian Critic's Award

for Guerra

for Gente di Plastica

Best Documentary for Guerra

for Urlo

  • 2010 - Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand

Grand Prix Compétition Internationale for Blue Sofa

  • 2011 - Premio Ubu

Best Show for Dopo la Battaglia

  • 2012 - Premio Abbiati
  • 2012 - Prix spécial du Jury SSR – Festival Vision du réél Nyon

for Amore e Carne[16]

for Sangue

for Sangue

  • 2014 - San Giò Video Festival

Best Movie for Sangue

  • 2016 - Festival del Cinema del Reale Award

Best Actors Pippo Delbono and Bobò

  • 2016 - Grand Prix du Festival Doc en courts de Lyon

for La Visite

Best Short Film for La Visite

Filmography

Director
  • Guerra (2003)
  • Grido (2006)
  • Blue Sofa (2009) short film
  • La paura (2009)
  • Amore carne (2011)
  • Sangue (2013)
  • La Visite (2015)
  • Vangelo (2016)

Actor
YearTitleDirector
2010I Am LoveLuca Guadagnino
2010Il sogno del maratonetaLeone Pompucci
2011CavalliMichele Rho
2012Goltzius and the Pelican CompanyPeter Greenaway
2012Pulce non c'èGiuseppe Bonito
2012Me and You (film)Bernardo Bertolucci
2013Cha cha chaMarco Risi
2013A Castle in ItalyValeria Bruni Tedeschi
2013Transeuropæ HotelLuigi Cinque
2013HenriYolande Moreau
2014Darker Than MidnightSebastiano Riso
2014Rendez-vous à AtlitShirel Amitay
2014 United Passions Frédéric Auburtin
2016Worldly GirlMarco Danieli
2016Ombre della seraValentina Esposito
2016Il camionistaLucio Gaudino
2016FalchiToni D'Angelo
2017A FamilySebastiano Riso
2017Gli asteroidiGermano Maccioni
2018A Tramway in JerusalemAmos Gitai
2018Oltre la nebbia - Il mistero di Rainer MerzGiuseppe Varlotta
2019Lucania (film)Gigi Roccati
2019La Freccia del TempoCarlo Sarti

Exhibits

Concerts

Bibliography
  • Ghiglione A., Barboni. Il teatro di Pippo Delbono, Ubulibri, Milan, Italy 1999
  • Delbono P., Pippo Delbono, mon théâtre, Actes Sud, Arles, France 2004
  • Delbono P., Pons H., Le Corps de l'acteur, six entretiens romains avec Hervé Pons, Éditions Les Solitaires Intempestifs, Besançon, France, 2004
  • Delbono P., El Teatro de la rabia, Punto a parte, Murcia, Spain, 2005
  • Delbono P., Racconti di giugno, Garzanti, Milan, Italy, 2008
  • Bentivoglio L., Pippo Delbono.Corpi senza menzogna, Barbés, 2009
  • Delbono P., Regards, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2010
  • Bionda N., Gualdoni C., Visioni incrociate. Pippo Delbono tra cinema e teatro Titivillus, Corazzano, Italy, 2011
  • Delbono P., Dopo la battaglia. Scritti poetico-politici, Ed. Barbés, 2011
  • De Martino A., Puppa p., Toninato P., Differences on stage, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2013
  • Pizzinant B., Pippo Delbono, le théâtre au temps des assassins, Editions de l'Amandier, Paris, France, 2014
  • Delbono P., Pier Paolo Pasolini. Urlare la verità, Clichy, Florence, Italy, 2014
  • Delbono P., Senzani G., Sangue. Dialogo tra un artista buddista e un ex terrorista tornato in libertà, Clichy, Florence, Italy, 2014
  • Delbono P., David Bowie. L'uomo che cadde sulla terra, Clichy, Florence, Italy, 2016
  • Manzella G., La possibilità della gioia, Clichy, Florence, Italy, 2017
  • Delbono P., Le don de soi, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2018

References
  1. "Pippo Delbono". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  2. De Martino A., Puppa p., Toninato P., Differences on stage, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2013, p. 239
  3. "Compagnia Pippo Delbono - Biografia Pippo Delbono". www.pippodelbono.it.
  4. Canziani, Roberto (2019-12-16). "Italian Theatre Today: Not a System, and so Many Transformations". Critical Stages/Scènes critiques. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  5. "'I MIEI BARBONI SONO RANDAGI' - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  6. "Ciao Bobò!".
  7. "Dopo la battaglia".
  8. "Orchidee".
  9. "Pippo Delbono". Festival d'Avignon.
  10. "Théâtre : l'hymne à la joie de Pippo Delbono". October 4, 2019 – via Le Monde.
  11. "Annual report 2006-2007" (PDF). cdn2.rsc.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  12. "Vangelo".
  13. "I vincitori". www.ubuperfq.it. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  14. "La Gioia".
  15. "Europe Theatre Prize - XIII Edition". www.premio-europa.org.
  16. "Amore carne". February 17, 2018.
  17. "La Mente che mente (L'esprit qui ment) | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr.
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