To have one's head in the clouds is an expression that both suspends and defines an emotional state. Often, in order to clarify a feeling, language becomes entangled in evanescent metaphors — cloud-like images that grasp inner movements. August Strindberg was fascinated by the clouds over the sky of Stockholm; for many years he observed them, recorded them, and translated them into his chamber theatre. An intimate form of theatre, designed for small spaces that could contain an atmosphere.

By transforming the inner landscape into an outer one, Filippo Andreatta explores clouds as a device for a chamber theatre in which miniature cloud scenographies restore theatre to its own ephemerality. The architecture of an Italian-style theatre — the Valli Theatre in Reggio Emilia — is reduced to scale and becomes a maquette, an intimate space where representational distance dissolves into delicate scenic and celestial artifices.
The soundtrack for this miniature theatre is Melodie by the composer Louis Andriessen, a work in which piano and recorder seek a perfect unison, constantly challenged by timbral fluctuations and subtle rhythmic micro-variations. In this futile attempt, near-success is the highest achievement possible: an approximation, an approach toward something that ultimately remains elusive.

nuvolario #Teatro_da_Camera is part of nuvolario, an ongoing investigation that looks upward to explore the elusive vertigo of celestial landscapes and their sedimentation in our present.

FILIPPO ANDREATTA
Filippo Andreatta is an artist and curator of performing arts. He founded Office for a Human Theatre, through which he creates performances, installations, and site-specific works in both urban and remote contexts. He reached the 79th parallel north in the Svalbard archipelago to read Frankenstein around a fire; created Little Fun Palace, a parasitic caravan that has travelled throughout Europe and North America; curated the Feminist Futures programme for Centrale Fies; and founded the Nomadic School, which moves through the Alps, fostering encounters between art and the natural and social sciences.

nuvolario #Teatro_da_Camera
by Filippo Andreatta
Music Melodie by Louis Andriessen
Direction, set design, and text Filippo Andreatta
Piano Bruna Di Virgilio
Recorder Verena Barié
Model and miniatures Nadezhda Simeonova
Technical direction Cosimo Ferrigolo
Model-making collaboration Luca Molinari
Dramaturgical research Veronica Franchi
Creative producer Kseniia Prokofeva
Administration Lucrezia Stenico
Photography Giacomo Bianco
Guide animal yún (云)
Production Office for a Human Theatre
Co-production Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia; La Contrada Teatro Stabile di Trieste
Residencies Saari Residence / Kone Foundation (FI); Villa Manin / La Contrada Trieste; Socìetas / Teatro Comandini, Cesena; Scuola Piccola Zattere, Venice; Teatro alla Cartiera, Rovereto
With the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC), Fondazione Caritro, the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Municipality of Rovereto, and Socìetas within the framework of the MIC/RE-R project "Residenze per Artisti nei Territori 2025–27".