Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea by Emanuele Aldrovandi translated by Marco Young (paperback)
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Emanuele Aldrovandi’s darkly absurdist comedy offers a refracted story of European migration – asking how well we would fare if we were forced to make a perilous journey across the sea, and what lengths we would go to in order to survive. Translated by Marco Young.
Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea
by
Emanuele Aldrovandi
It’s the near future and Europe has failed. A domino effect of nationalist, isolationist policies has left the continent’s economies on the brink of collapse, and citizens of the countries who closed their borders to immigrants are forced to flee across the seas.
In a claustrophobic shipping container, three unnamed travellers place their lives at the mercy of a mysterious people-smuggler. Forced to exist on the brink between civility and chaos, they pray that they will reach their destination. And yet there are natural – and human – forces at work which are far beyond their control.
This darkly comic, absurdist, and political piece offers us a refracted story of European migration – asking us how well we would fare if we were forced to make a perilous journey across the sea, and what lengths we would go to in order to survive.
Playwright Emanuele Aldrovandi is one of Italy’s foremost theatre-makers. His work has been performed across Europe and the United States.
★★★★ ‘Ambitious, darkly funny and absurd… an extremely memorable night’ Everything Theatre
‘Emanuele Aldrovandi is on the rise, with a unique talent for off-kilter stories, situations and characters’ La Repubblica
Casting: 4 actors (1 female / 3 male)
Duration: 75 minutes
| Dimensions | 198 × 129 cm |
|---|---|
| Format | paperback |
| Extent | 76 |
| ISBN | 9781914228964 |
| Publication date | 13th September 2023 |
Emanuele Aldrovandi (Reggio Emilia, 1985) is an italian playwright, screenwriter, translator, director and playwriting teacher. He is the artistic director of "Associazione Teatrale Autori Vivi".
After a bachelor degree in Philosophy and a master degree in Literature, from 2009 to 2012 he studied playwriting at the Paolo Grassi Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan, Italy.
In 2013, with Homicide House, he won the most important Italian playwriting award, the Riccione/Tondelli, and his plays started to be staged in many theatres all over the country and abroad. In Italy he also won the Pirandello National Award with Felicità/Happiness, the Fersen Award with Il Generale/The General, the Hystrio Award and the Mario Fratti Award with Farfalle/Butterflies.
He has written original plays and adaptations for some of the most important Italian theatres, like ERT Emilia Romagna National Theater, Elfo Puccini Theater and Teatro Stabile di Torino National Theater, he has collaborated with young established Italian theater companies, like MaMiMò and ATIR, he has translated in Italian plays like Trainspotting, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Laramie Project, he was been invited to many international festivals, he has worked with Beijing National Opera on a project about Shakespeare’s Othello, he has wrote short plays for EXPO 2015 and he has created and developed site-specific theatre projects and multimedia museum exhibitions.
He was one of the European playwrights selected by Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe, the main exchange playwriting program in Europe, and his plays have been translated, performed and published in English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Catalan and Arabic.
In 2018 he started to work also as a screenwriter and movie director. He wrote and directed three short movies that have been staged in many international festivals. In 2021 his short movie Bataclan won the Nastro d'Argento for best Italian short movie.
He’s a playwriting teacher in one the most important Italian theatre school, the Paolo Grassi Academy of Dramatic Arts, and he’s leading many writing workshops in Italy and abroad.
