Piccolo Teatro, ''The Tempest''

Milan

The original scenographical installation conceived by Luciano Damiani, with the ample proscenium in front on the stage and the big shutters opened on it.

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The sketches by Damiani illustrate the use of a big backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk with flat making to stylize the waves of the sea.Damiani used the lightness of the silk ...

... to create a fluctuating very shaken surface that simulated the stormy sea.

He got it placing under the backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk several mimes shooking upward their arms ...

... and it was a brilliant scenographical invention that characterized the show and that was an epoch-making event.

The staging of the famous effect conceived by Damiani.The background lighting is obtained with a Rear-illuminated cyclorama made of the film RTE - Temporale.

Luciano Damiani used the HSE - Tempesta silk, one of his preferred scenographical materials, also to make a big semitransparent sail ...

... that was shaked by the wind of the storm.

An installation that belongs to the history of modern scenography.
Luciano Damiani experimented in a revolutionary and definitive way the use of the silk for scenography, that since then on, in Italy - and in many other countries - it was called HSE - Tempesta silk.
It is memorable the stylization of the waves of the sea, created by the movement of the arms and heads of actors that stood in front of the stage below a big backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk, precisely.

The Tempest

Tragedy in five acts

Text

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

First night

London, Whitehall Palace, 1611

Scenography,
costume design

Luciano Damiani

Construction responsible

Aurelio Caracci

Music

Fiorenzo Carpi