We are in the private festival opening party where only participants are invited. The old guy in the middle is famous Italian movie and theatre director Ugo Gregoretti. He was the one choosing who can participate in the festival. There were 2 Itaian theatres and 3 foreign theatres - from Bulgaria, Belarus and us. He later thanked us for our performance that he loved. On the left side you can see Italian theatre from Ferrara city with their Greek director. We established close friendship with them.
Belarus theatre we knew from few times being in Minsk. So we already had connection. All very great ppl. Bulgarian theatre was weird, almost like sectarians. Their play also was weird. They had choreography together with text. Their choreography was really, really great but their drama was rubish. Besides they stopped the play several times to tell technicians to fix the light or cause they didn't like applause in the middle of the play. Also their director has very big ego. When there were one director presenting his movie about the project where he was working with inmates, Bulgarian director got in front of audience and started to talk about his experience and what he thought of the movie. What normal person is interrupting the presentation to talk about himself
When in the next morning after our performance we had some kind of conference where we had to tell history of our theatre ans something about our play, our theatre took maybe 20 mins. The after us came Bulgaria and their director started to talk about his own history, where did he study, what year etc... We all were so annoyed. It took 1 hour for them to tell their history and about their performance. We know that Belarus and Italian theatre was very annoyed by them. We almost didn't talk with them at all.
We're at the private opening.
Each theatre had to go in front and present their theare with some small presentational performance.
In the middle doing our performance which contained Latvian folksong and improvisational folkdance.
Then we had a small concert where students of music academy were playing 3 Brazilian songs and 1 self composed song.
When we arrived at the 4 star hotel called Hotel President we had a surprise on our pillows
I don't remember me staying in such elegant hotel before. We lived two in one room.
Then we had to go to official opening of the festival. This is one the way to theatre building.
The centre, main street of Benevento. You also can see theatre building in the right.
Theatre building
The church that is included in UNESCO
Theatre building and festival advert.
We were very surprised cause the theatre building was full with all kind of writings. It never happens in Latvia. Btw, Rita is my mom's name lol
The main street
4 balconies schocked us and we got scared if we will be able to fulfill all the room with the emotions from our play but it wasn't that hard. Italian audience took us very well
Organizers sad it's typical Italian theatre building.
I loved the ceiling of the theatre.
Opening.
The guy with the micraphone is Michelangelo. Isn't it beautiful name in nowdays?
The girl on the right is translator. The best translator I have seen in festivals
Gregoretti is speaking in the opening. We were almost like in the middle of attention in the festival. Starting from the opening cause Gregoretti said something like "I am welcoming all foreign theatres in Benevento festival and especially Latvian theatre cause I had myself some history related with Latvia". The guides called us the best theatre cause we were attending all events of the frstival and they were many - plays, conferences, meetings, concerts etc. We just missed one concert cause we wanted to visit old Pompeii city which was 1-1.30 hours away from Benevento.
Day 3 will come as soon as I will go through those pics.
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I hope to get pics and videos next week.
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