SALAMANDER – THEATRE COMPANY
“Salamander” theatre company was founded in 2005 by the director and playwright Marco Ghelardi together with Simona Schito.
Salamander is an acting company whose aim is the artistic research and the development of contemporary theatrical forms in order to effectively narrate engaging stories.
Our activity consists of three different stages:
• Theatre seasons and festivals.Here the festival “Shakespeare in Town!” stands out. It was founded in 2005 and it is dedicated to the divulgation of the Shakespearean classic as a metaphor of the theatre in general. Each festival overwhelms with joy the city of Savona through events and surprises, ending with a performance of the play that year’s gathering is dedicated to. Salamander’s history includes the foundation and the organization of other theatre schedules like the international theatre festival “Frontiera” of Borgio Berezzi, the festival “TeatRanzi”, the theatre’s season “Vociteatromusica” of the Teatro di Valleggia and other initiatives.
• Performance of texts: either classical or contemporary texts, some of them written by Marco Ghelardi, some others by different authors. What they all have in common is the will to focus on the story and the immediacy of the engagement. In this field, Salamander presented the national premiere of “Dealer’s choice” by Patrick Marber in cooperation with the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, “Turno di notte” (Night Shift) by Marco Ghelardi presented at the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa and “La scelta” (The choice”), work commissioned by UWIN UniCredit Group which has been performed several times in the most prestigious theatres of Italy such as Teatro Piccolo in Milan, Teatro Politeama in Palermo and Teatro D’Annunzio in Pescara.
• Education: Salamander works in the field of education both for adults and teens in collaboration with educational institutes. The aim is to be present also outside the stage for the diffusion of esthetic values and the creation of a particular audience. For years Salamander has realized projects that use the Shakespearean texts to spread a different perception of the art of theatre.
MARCO GHELARDI
Marco Ghelardi (Savona, 1975) is a director and playwright.
He graduated in Theatre in England and specialized in theatrical directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Theatre of London.
He worked as a staff director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 2002 to 2008. In 2003 he was the first non-Briton to win the competition for the annual Shakespearean production at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. In 2008 he received the Regional Prize for Theatre from the region of Liguria.He wrote several plays for the theatre, among which are “Parti oscure – in margine ai Promessi Sposi” and “Turno di notte” (“Dark Parts – in the margins of The Betrothed”, and “Night Shift”). For contemporary drama, he translated and directed, among others, “Dealer’s Choice” by Patrick Marber, which premiered in Italy at the Teatro Stabile in Genoa in 2008.
From 2005 he is the Director of the Festival Shakespeare in Town! in Savona for which every year he translates and directs a different Shakespearean play. From 2014 he works as associate director at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival.
SHAKESPEARE IN TOWN
SALAMANDER – THEATRE COMPANY
“Salamander” theatre company was founded in 2005 by the director and playwright Marco Ghelardi together with Simona Schito.
Salamander is an acting company whose aim is the artistic research and the development of contemporary theatrical forms in order to effectively narrate engaging stories.
Our activity consists of three different stages:
• Theatre seasons and festivals.Here the festival “Shakespeare in Town!” stands out. It was founded in 2005 and it is dedicated to the divulgation of the Shakespearean classic as a metaphor of the theatre in general. Each festival overwhelms with joy the city of Savona through events and surprises, ending with a performance of the play that year’s gathering is dedicated to. Salamander’s history includes the foundation and the organization of other theatre schedules like the international theatre festival “Frontiera” of Borgio Berezzi, the festival “TeatRanzi”, the theatre’s season “Vociteatromusica” of the Teatro di Valleggia and other initiatives.
• Performance of texts: either classical or contemporary texts, some of them written by Marco Ghelardi, some others by different authors. What they all have in common is the will to focus on the story and the immediacy of the engagement. In this field, Salamander presented the national premiere of “Dealer’s choice” by Patrick Marber in cooperation with the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, “Turno di notte” (Night Shift) by Marco Ghelardi presented at the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa and “La scelta” (The choice”), work commissioned by UWIN UniCredit Group which has been performed several times in the most prestigious theatres of Italy such as Teatro Piccolo in Milan, Teatro Politeama in Palermo and Teatro D’Annunzio in Pescara.
• Education: Salamander works in the field of education both for adults and teens in collaboration with educational institutes. The aim is to be present also outside the stage for the diffusion of esthetic values and the creation of a particular audience. For years Salamander has realized projects that use the Shakespearean texts to spread a different perception of the art of theatre.
MARCO GHELARDI
Marco Ghelardi (Savona, 1975) is a director and playwright.
He graduated in Theatre in England and specialized in theatrical directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Theatre of London.
He worked as a staff director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 2002 to 2008. In 2003 he was the first non-Briton to win the competition for the annual Shakespearean production at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. In 2008 he received the Regional Prize for Theatre from the region of Liguria.He wrote several plays for the theatre, among which are “Parti oscure – in margine ai Promessi Sposi” and “Turno di notte” (“Dark Parts – in the margins of The Betrothed”, and “Night Shift”). For contemporary drama, he translated and directed, among others, “Dealer’s Choice” by Patrick Marber, which premiered in Italy at the Teatro Stabile in Genoa in 2008.
From 2005 he is the Director of the Festival Shakespeare in Town! in Savona for which every year he translates and directs a different Shakespearean play. From 2014 he works as associate director at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival.
