The Accademia Perduta/Romagna Teatri, today  Teatro Stabile d’Arte Contemporanea (Repertory Theater of Contemporary Art) and directed by Ruggero Sintoni and Claudio Casadio, is recognized as one of most successful theater projects in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Portugal. The Teatro Stabile was established by a group of young actors in 1982 as the Children’s Theater Company. From its founding to the present, the Accademia Perduta has been engaged in the intensive and fruitful production of theatrical programming for children.

 

The theater’s productions, written, directed, and often performed by Claudio Casadio, are distinguished by the precise and original style that has, over time, become their signature.

 

The children’s theater produced by the Accademia Perduta Children’s Theatre transcends the “category” in order to become a true art form based in such fundamental considerations as attention to fantasy, dreamlike and evocative imagery, and the importance of involving spectators emotionally. The Accademia Perduta Children’s Theatre makes children dream, but it also knows how to take adults back to the dreams of their childhood.

 

The Ballad of a Leaf
based upon Mario Lodi’s short story, “Bandiera”

 

Dramaturgy and Direction Claudio Casadio

With
Mariolina Coppola
Maurizio Casali

Set Design Marcello Chiarenza

 

Bandiera is a tender musical fable about the changing of the seasons. It describes the life of a cherry-tree leaf named Bandiera who, undaunted and oblivious to the coming of Winter, remains attached to her branch. Her uneven contest with nature lasts until the birth of the new leaf buds at the beginning of Spring.
Bandiera’s main theme is the poetry to be found in life and in life’s joy and melancholy. It marks a sweet and delicate acceptance of nature’s cycles.
An evocative interplay of objects sets the stage and a tree is transformed, before the audience’s eyes, into a representation of the changing of the seasons.
This charming story is enhanced by music and songs, performed live.