Teatro delle Albe

In 1983, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina and Marcella Nonni founded Teatro delle Albe. The company developed its own path by combining the search for the “new” with the lessons of theatrical tradition: playwright and director Martinelli wrote texts inspired by the ancients and the present day, conceiving stories for the actors, who thus became true co-authors of the shows. In 1988, the company acquired some Senegalese griots: Mandiaye N'Diaye (since then the African “pillar” of the company), Mor Awa Niang and El Hadji Niang. The group became Afro-Romagnolan, practising an original theatrical fusion that combines drama and dance, music and dialects, invention and roots. The shows, from Ruh. Romagna piu’africa uguale (1988) to All’inferno! (1996), from I Polacchi (1998) to Sogno di una notte di mezza estate (2002), from Salmagundi (2004) to La mano (2005), earned Albe national and international awards and recognition, highlighting a rigorous, refined and exciting poetics.