Via Giuseppe Candido 23
Lecce
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Astràgali teatro was founded in1981 in Lecce in order to promote theatre, train actors, give life to a place for exchange of practices. It operates in the field of theatrical production and training, audiovisual production.
Astràgali is a place of theatrical research, of meeting of thoughts with the never tired challenge of life in theatre, that lead to visit theatrically as pioneers, some fascinating or forgotten architectonic and natural places and to open to syncretism practice of cultural exchanges and crossings, above all with Mediterranean countries, bringing to the creation of a cultural network and of " Multimedia Archive of Mediterranean countries".
Among the performances realized by Astràgali’s company, under the direction of Fabio Tolledi, we can remember: "Ali- questo corpo, questo fuoco", "La Betissa" (from the text of Antonio Verri), "Mistero Buffo (Schizzo Majakowskij)”, "Nos - l'architettura degli amanti", "Q - il cantico dei cantici per lingua madre", "Le Vie dei Canti", "Porca Miseria - le comiche storie del tragico sud".Among the several events we remember the four editions of "The Poets’ Night", "Scene del desiderio”, "Tamburi e coltelli", "Le Terre di Mezzo", the two editions of the festival “Dyonisos’traces”, the two pilot projects on behalf of the Ministry of Welfare and the Ministry of Public Education: " I giardini delle meraviglie" and "Progetto in viaggio"
In 1999 it is partner of D.E.P.A.Z. in the project “Popular Theatre in Renaissance” in Zakynthos(Greece) within the EU programme INTERREG III Italy-Greece.