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L'Armata a cavallo - Rassegna stampa La rivoluzione russa con tocco yiddish (The Russian revolution with a Yiddish touch) by G.Man. Il Manifesto - 30 november 2003 Red flags with stars and the hammer and sickle. Raised fists and the singing of the Internationale. Wherever can we be with this repertoire of outdated items?...
La rivoluzione secondo Ovadia - (The revolution according to Ovadia) by Enrico Fiore Il Mattino - 3 november 2003 A long awaited and courageous show, against all "instrumental revisionisms"... I cosacchi di Ovadia - (Ovadia's Cossacks) by Luciana Cavina Il Resto del Carlino - 16 October, 2003 (Bologna) The indispensable text for anyone wanting to understand the human being in extreme conditions such as war...
L'Armata di Ovadia - (Ovadia's Army) by Bunella Torresini La Repubblica - 16 October, 2003 Moni Ovadia and his international orchestra of Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Rumanian and Polish actors will be back at the Arena del Sole from Thursday the 23rd of October, in a new show which promises to be magnificent...
In "Konarmija" le domande spiazzanti di Moni Ovadia - ("Konarmiya" and Ovadia's disorienting questions) by Gian Maria Tosatti Il Tempo - 19 March, 2005 "Konarmiya" by Isaak Babel is one of the texts which most dramatically expresses the tensions and disappointments of the Jews at the beginning of the 20th century...
La rivoluzione russa rivive nell'Armata di Ovadia all'Arena del Sole (The Russian Revolution returns in Ovadia's Army at Arena del Sole)
La storia siamo noi. Ovadia centra il bersaglio. (History is us. Ovadia does it again.Bologna, this fascinating show about the Red Cossack division in the Russian Revolution makes us reflect about war and the ideals for a better world) by Maria Grazia Gregori L'Unità - 27 October, 2003 Tightened fists, red banners in the wind, red stars on their hats, here come the Cossacks of the famous Cavalry Army, built by Trotsky practically from nothing, who fought on the Russian-Polish front. Here are the proud, ferocious soldiers, who with their trusted horses, fight the whites, the counter-revolutionaries, the Poles, and advance like a war machine similar to a barbaric horde in their chalky uniforms invented by Elisa Savi, pregnant with memory and the past...
L'Armata a cavallo di Moni Ovadia Jean-Marie Wynants, special correspondent in Bologna Le Soir - 25 november 2003
Regarding the theatre, Europalia Italia will most certainly not be playing the card of discovery. With the exception of Pippo Delbono, we will not see any of this young and not so young Italian theatrical scene, which the Kunsten Festival des Arts and Lièges Festival, just to mention these two, have allowed us to discover for the past few years. So, in Belgium, we will have to resort to one of these events in order to discover Moni Ovadia's "L'Armata a cavallo, which has just been presented at the Arena del Sole in Bologna, one of Italy's most active theatres...
La vita è la madre di tutti i massacri (Life is the mother of all massacres) by Bernd Sucher Süddeutsche Zeitung - 5 November, 2003 Moni Ovadia stages and acts in "Konarmiya" by Isaak Babel, an international premiere in Bologna Isaak Babel, 30 stories under the title "Red Cavalry", which were masterfully translated to German by Peter Urban in 1994, make up a brutal and spectacular theatre production. The narrator, a Jewish intellectual who serves alongside the Cossacks and in 1920, is with the Red Army's military campaign against Poland, tells of murders, of senseless massacres, insists on describing a world beyond salvation, but at the same time, celebrates life, which, in the midst of all the terror, he realizes to be the greatest of gifts. "Konarmiya"'s film adaptation was very successful in Germany, however the stories had never been adapted for the theatre...
(Ovadia bewitches Moscow with Babel. Huge success for "Konarmiya", produced by Arena del Sole and inspired by "Red Cavalry", the Russian author's masterpiece) by Chiara Affronte L'Unità - 10 June, 2005 (Bologna) «The completing of a dream». This is how Moni Ovadia defines the Moscow premiere of «Konarmiya - L'armata a cavallo», the «courageous» show which tells of the «sweet utopia» of the revolution, inspired by Isaak Babel's masterpiece, «Red Cavalry»... |
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