The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art and the TDO Theatre Company present

SHOOT!

(from every mephitic place of mediocrity)

By Corrado Veneziano with the collaboration of Francesca Barbi Marinetti

On Thursday, Feb. 20 at 5 p.m., to celebrate the anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism in Le Figaro in 1909, actor Marco Prosperini plays the brilliant inventor of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

This is an “impossible” interview conducted by Marinetti’s own granddaughter: curator and art critic Francesca Barbi Marinetti.

Corrado Veneziano, with the collaboration of Barbi Marinetti, writes a text in which intimate and human, intellectual and artistic, public and institutional elements recount a particularly complex and multifaceted historical period. Marinetti’s childhood years are traced, then the move to Paris, where ties with French and European culture are grafted, then the arrival in Italy and the consolidation of Futurism as a cultural avant-garde. Not overlooked are the complex relationships with politics, which lasted until Marinetti’s death.

Between biographical, artistic and historical pages, the interview touches multiple psychological chords of Marinetti, through even insidious and provocative questions.

Corrado Veneziano’s direction plays with phonic orchestration, enriching the acting with overlapping voices, verbal and intonational games, and music curated by Oscar Bonelli.

Directed by Corrado Veneziano

With Marco Prosperini and Francesca Barbi Marinetti

Music composed and performed by Oscar Bonelli

Costumes by Annalisa Di Piero

Thanks to Annamode Costumes

Veranda Parolibera

Thursday, Feb. 2025, 5 p.m.

The performance is included in the admission ticket, subject to availability of seats in the auditorium.