Antimo plays the piano in the Helsinki bar at the centre of a giant cruise ship, the Costa Concordia.
His stage is a prime location, a private stall for watching the human comedy. He watches, listens and plays. 
A microcosm suspended on the water that floats with a carefree lightness from the bright light of Marseilles to the enchanted Sicilian capital, between on-board parties and galas, illuminating the night with its marvellous cargo until the sudden and unexpected appearance of Isola del Giglio on the night of January thirteenth and the sinister sound of seven short blasts and one long, which drastically interrupt the fairy tale on the sea, bringing it to a dramatic end.

Sette squilli brevi e uno lungo is a perfomance for piano, voice and body created by and performed by Antimo Magnotta and Alexander Ananasso at The Cambria, in Camberwell, London. You will be transported to the halls of the infamous Costa Concordia cruiseship and back to that intense and incredible journey.

This site-specific, immersive performance is based on the book Sette squilli brevi e uno lungo (Seven short blasts) by Antimo Magnotta, pianist and survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise shipwreck, occurred in Italy on Friday 13th January 2012.
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Alexander Ananasso, the Artistic Director of the show, is an Italian-British actor previously seen in The Man from UNCLE (Guy Ritchie), Il ballo delle meduse (Aurelio Laino) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Matthew Vaughn).
Special thanks for their huge help through the devising process to Alessandro Marchese (narrative coaching) and Benedetta Castello (movement coaching).

WATCH THE TRAILER

This is a special preview in ITALIAN LANGUAGE.
more info here

At the Cambria. A Lo-Fi improvised emotional field recording. 

On Friday the 18th of May 2018 my friend Johan Petti, a very skilled photographer, and I met at the Cambria, an old pub in south London. There’s a piano in the room upstairs. While he was taking pictures of me I started improvising at the piano and recorded everything around us, using just my Zoom H4n recorder: his camera shutter clicks, my music, his steps, the white noise of a fridge, the hypnotizing buzz of an old vent. 

Also the spirit of mysterious albatross on the piano…. 
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