The Italian contemporary performance collective, Societas Raffaello Sanzio is one of the most recognized and sought after Italian companies of the past decade. Founding leaders of the company include Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi. For the first 20 years the works were directed and designed by Romeo Castellucci, the company creates works in the genre of the “Theater of Images” incorporating elaborate spectacles of theater machines, dense sound scapes, and narrative fragmentations. The performers onstage are a mix of the Casellucci family, Italian actors, real performers of extreme age, size, or physical conditions, and animals. In the past 5 years the company as fragmented to present separate works directed by Rome Castellucci, Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi.
- Santa Sofia.Teatro Khmer (1985)
- Kaputt Necropolis (1984)
- Les Miserables (1986)
- The beauty of ancient (1987)
- The Descent of Inanna (1989)
- Gilgamesh (1990)
- Hamlet. The vehement externality of the death of a mollusc (1992)
- Aesop’s Fables (1992)
- Masoch. The triumphs of the theater as a passive power, guilt and defeat (1993)
- Lucifer. The more a word is all the more old sinks (1993)
- Oresteia (organic A comedy?) (1995)
- Buchettino (1995)
- Julius Caesar (1997)
- Genesis. From the Museum of Sleep (1999)
- Tragedy Endogonidia , divided into:
- C. # 01 Cesena. The Tragedy of Endogonidia Episode (2002)
- A. # 02 Avignon. Episode II Endogonidia of Tragedy (2002)
- B. # 03 BERLIN. Episode III Endogonidia of Tragedy (2003)
- BR. BR # 04. # 04 BRUSSELS / BRUSSELS. Episode IV Endogonidia of Tragedy (2003)
- NL. BERGEN # 05. Episode V Endogonidia of Tragedy (2003)
- P # 06 PARIS. Episode VI Endogonidia of Tragedy (2003)
- R. # 07 ROME. Episode VII Endogonidia of Tragedy (2003)
- S. # 08 STRASBOURG. Episode VIII Endogonidia of Tragedy (2004)
- L. # 09 LONDON. Episode IX Endogonidia of Tragedy (2004)
- MARSEILLE M. # 10. Episode X Endogonidia of Tragedy (2004)
- C. # 11 Cesena. Episode XI Endogonidia of Tragedy (2004)
- The Cryonic Chants (2005) [dir. Claudia Castellucci]
- Hey Girl! (2006)
- Prudent vexilla Regis Hells (2007)
- Just narrabile Madrigal (2007) [dir. Chiara Guidi]
- Inferno (2008)
- Purgatory (2008)
- Paradise (2008)
- On the Concept of Face in the Son of God (2010)
- Parsifal (2011)
- The Minester’s Black Veil (2011)
- Buchettino I Catalugna (2012) [dir. Chiara Guidi]
- La Seconda Neanderthal (2012) [dir. Claudia Castellucci]
- Buchettino I Japan (2012) [dir. Chiara Guidi]
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Caden Manson is Editor In Chief and Curator of Contemporary Performance Network and co-founder and artistic director of Big Art Group, a New York City performance company founded in 1999.
