Romeo Castellucci
Romeo Castellucci has been at the helm of Societas Raffaello Sanzio for twenty years and is an acclaimed director, with a dedicated following in Europe, particularly in France. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique-Paris for the staging of Genesi From the Museum of Sleep, which was first produced in 1999.
“All art is disturbing,” Castellucci has said. “Genesi scares me more than the Apocalypse, the terror of sheer possibility, the open sea of every possibility.”
Romeo Castellucci, established the theatre company, Societas Raffaello Sanzio in 1981 with the idea of encompassing all art forms thus creating works completely open to all senses of perception, like in a system of forces.
In twenty years of unceasing iconographical construction, Societas Raffaello Sanzio has given shape to a new expressiveness by creating anew theatrical language and practices deriving from an archetypal universe of discourse (oratory and rhetoric), from the visual arts, science and technology, the world of sound, and science fiction. All this is always combined with a personal approach to religion.
