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Praxis Makes Perfect

NATIONAL THEATRE & National Theatre Wales & Neon Neon

Conceived and performed by and Loosely based on the book Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli

B #ntwneonneon Neon Neon Bryan Hollon ‘Boom Bip’ Gruff Rhys

In 2007, Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip launched Bryan is originally from Cincinnati, Gruff Rhys is a Welsh musician, performing Cerddor Cymreig yw Gruff Rhys, sy’n perfformio the electro-pop collaboration Neon Neon. and is currently based in Los Angeles. After solo and with several bands. He was born ar ei ben ei hun a gyda sawl band. Cafodd Their first , , was released starting his career as a DJ – presenting on in , and grew ei eni yn Hwlffordd, Sir Benfro ac fe’i magwyd in 2008 and is a concept album based on the the radio and hosting club nights – he met up in Bethesda, in . Gruff ym Methesda, Gwynedd yng ngogledd Cymru. life of John DeLorean, founder of the DeLorean and collaborated with other producers and first found his voice as the front man of the Daeth Gruff i’r amlwg fel prif ganwr Ffa Coffi Motor Company. The album included high-profile artists including rapper . Boom Bip band Ffa Coffi Pawb (Everyone’s Coffee ), Pawb (Everyone’s Coffee Beans), oedd wedi’u guest appearances from the likes of ’ and Doseone’s collaborative album Circle who were signed to and became one cofrestru ag Ankstmusik a ddaethant yn un Fab Moretti, , was noted by in the UK, and the of the leading bands on the o brif fandiau’r byd cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru. and . Stainless Style was two became known in the British underground music scene. Pan chwalodd Ffa Coffi Pawb, nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. hip hop and electronic scene. When Ffa Coffi Pawb disbanded, ffurfiodd Gruff y band This attention led to Boom Bip being Gruff formed the band Super Furry Animals gyda’r drymiwr Dafydd Ieuan. Ymunodd tri Neon Neon returned to the studio in 2012 invited to complete his first solo album, Seed to with drummer Dafydd Ieuan. They were joined aelod arall â hwy – , to record their second album, Praxis Makes Sun, for in 2002. This was followed by three additional members – Cian Ciaran, a Guto Pryce – ac mae’r aelodaeth wedi Perfect, which was released on 29th April by Corymb, a remix compendium released in Huw Bunford and Guto Pryce – and the lineup parhau’n gyson dros y blynyddoedd. Ym 2013 via Lex Records. Like Stainless Style, 2004. Boom Bip then relocated to Los Angeles has remained consistent over the years. In 1995 ymunon nhw â a the album features guest appearances, this and released his second solo album, Blue Eyes 1995 they were signed to Creation Records and rhyddhawyd eu halbwm cyntaf, Fuzzy Logic. time from Sabrina Salerno, Cate Le Bon, Josh in the Red Room, in 2005. This album features released their first album Fuzzy Logic. This was Dilynwyd hyn gan yr albymau Radiator, Klinghoffer and Italian superstar Asia Argento. Gruff Rhys on vocals. Boom Bip’s third solo followed by the Radiator, Guerrilla and Guerrilla a , ac yna ymunon nhw â album, Zig Zaj, was released on Lex Records Mwng, after which they were signed to Sony Sony a rhyddhawyd tri albwm yn gynnar yn You can buy the album now at lexrecords.com in 2011 and also features collaborations with and released three albums in the early 2000’s – y 2000au. Maent gyda Rough Trade ar hyn o well-known artists including , Hey Venus! and Dark Days/Light Years followed bryd a rhyddhawyd dau albwm – Hey Venus! Alex Kapranos and Cate Le Bon. most recently on the Rough Trade label. a Dark Days/Light Years – ar y label. Yn 2007, lansiodd Gruff Rhys a Boom Bip Boom Bip often tours with a full Gruff also performs as a solo artist Mae Gruff yn perfformio hefyd fel y band electro-pop Neon Neon. Rhyddhawyd four-piece live band which includes traditional and has released three solo albums: Yr Atal artist unigol ac mae wedi rhyddhau tri albwm eu halbwm cyntaf, Stainless Style, yn 2008 instruments as well as synths, gadgets and Genhedlaeth, and most recently Hotel unigol: Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, Candylion ac yn ac mae’n albwm cysyniadol a seiliwyd ar machines. He has played festivals including Shampoo, for which he won the 2011 Welsh fwyaf diweddar , yr enillodd fywyd John DeLorean, sylfaenydd y DeLorean Glastonbury, Coachella Valley Music and Music Prize. Gruff has performed all over the Wobr Cerddoriaeth Cymru ar ei gyfer yn 2011. Motor Company. Roedd yr albwm yn cynnwys Pukkelpop, toured with Super Furry Animals world and collaborated with bands and artists Mae Gruff wedi perfformio ar draws y byd ac perfformiadau gan westeion proffil uchel fel and Interpol and shared the stage with Sonic including , , Goldie Lookin’ wedi cydweithio â bandiau ac artistiaid yn The Strokes’ Fab Moretti, Har Mar Superstar, Youth, The Cure and Mogwai, amongst others. Chain, , and Tony da Gatorra. cynnwys Mogwai, Danger Mouse, Goldie Lookin’ Cate Le Bon a The Magic Numbers. Enwebwyd He has also appeared live with Manic Street Chain, De La Soul, Gorillaz a Tony da Gatorra. Stainless Style am y Mercury Music Prize. Preachers and Paul McCartney. Mae hefyd wedi perfformio’n fyw gyda Manic Daw Bryan yn wreiddiol o Cincinnati, Ohio, Alongside performing, Gruff Rhys Street Preachers a Paul McCartney. ac mae’n byw ar hyn o bryd yn Los Angeles. was the subject of a film called Separado! Ochr yn ochr â’i berfformio, Gruff Rhys Dychwelodd Neon Neon i’r stiwdio yn 2012 i Ar ôl dechrau ei yrfa fel DJ – yn cyflwyno in 2010, which documented his trip to oedd testun ffilm o’r enw Separado! yn 2010, recordio eu hail albwm, Praxis Makes Perfect, ar y radio ac yn cynnal nosweithiau clwb – Patagonia to meet members of his family a gofnododd ei daith i Batagonia i gwrdd ag a ryddhawyd ar 29 Ebrill 2013 trwy Lex cyfarfu â chynhyrchwyr ac artistiaid eraill whose ancestors had emigrated in Victorian aelodau’i deulu yr oedd eu cyndeidiau wedi Records. Yn yr un modd â Stainless Style, yn cynnwys rapiwr Doseone, a chydweithio times. He also provided the music for the mudo yno yn ystod oes Fictoria. Ef ddarparodd mae’r albwm yn cynnwys perfformiadau â hwy. Cafodd albwm ar y cyd Boom Bip a successful iOS game Whale Trail in 2011, y gerddoriaeth hefyd ar gyfer y gêm iOS gan westeion megis Sabrina Salerno, Cate Doseone, sef Circle sylw gan John Peel yn and in the same year wrote and performed lwyddiannus Whale Trail yn 2011. Le Bon, Josh Klinghoffer a’r seren Eidalaidd y DU, a daeth y ddau yn enwog ym myd hip music in artist Phil Collins’ experimental Asia Argento. hop ac electronig tanddaear Prydain. shopping channel event This Unfortunate Arweiniodd y sylw hwn at wahoddiad Thing Between Us at the Hau Theatre, Berlin. Gallwch brynu’r albwm nawr yn lexrecords.com i Boom Bip gwblhau ei albwm unigol cyntaf, Seed to Sun, i Lex Records yn 2002. Dilynwyd hwn gan Corymb, casgliad wedi’i ailgymysgu a ryddhawyd yn 2004. Yna symudodd Boom Bip i Los Angeles a rhyddhau ei ail albwm unigol, Blue Eyes in the Red Room, yn 2005. Mae’r albwm hwn yn cynnwys Gruff Rhys yn canu. Rhyddhawyd trydydd albwm unigol Boom Bip, Zig Zaj, ar Lex Records yn 2011 ac mae hefyd yn cynnwys cydweithio ag artistiaid enwog yn cynnwys Josh Klinghoffer, Alex Kapranos a Cate Le Bon. Mae Boom Bip yn teithio’n aml gyda band byw pedair rhan sy’n cynnwys offerynnau traddodiadol yn ogystal â syntheseiddwyr, teclynnau a pheiriannau. Mae wedi chwarae mewn gwyliau yn cynnwys Glastonbury, Coachella Valley Music a Pukkelpop, wedi teithio gyda Super Furry Animals ac Interpol a rhannu’r llwyfan gyda Sonic Youth, The Cure a Mogwai, ymhlith eraill. Boom Bip, Gruff Rhys

1 Image / Llun: Mark James 2 ‘Do you know how the shower works?’ said Gruff Rhys, in his pants, at the foot of my bed. There are very few moments where you allow yourself to think ‘I’ve made it’ but this was definitely one. Finally, after 20 years of a largely one-way relationship, Gruff and I were in our unmentionables in a European hotel, in need of a wash. Research Praxis Makes Perfect is about the remarkable life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and I was in Rome with Gruff, Boom Bip, in our documentary maker Ryan, and Dr Kiko our tour manager (who deserves a play in his own right) for research. We were there to meet Carlo Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo’s son, who has written a fantastic book called Senior Service telling the life-story of his father. Carlo’s day-job is running Italy’s biggest publishing house Feltrinelli Editore. The equivalent in the UK would be the old-style Virgin store, combined with Waterstones and HMV. There are 5 Feltrinelli stores in Milan. It is the mark of Carlo’s generosity The final night we were in of spirit, that a band and a playwright can Rome was the night of the turn up at his office and say ‘we want to make a synth album and live show with annual Communist Party dramatic interventions based on your of Italy Rally. […] So I went father’s life in a factory in Wales,’ and to the Italian Communist he said ‘fantastic’ and bought us lunch. The next day we went to the Party Rally in Rome, with Feltrinelli Foundation, set up by Giangiacomo, Neon Neon. Standard. where Carlo showed us handwritten letters between Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, a first edition of the Communist Manifesto, a first edition of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft, and the original manuscript for Dr Zhivago by . From there Dr Kiko drove us overnight to Rome where we met Italian screen siren Asia Argento and recorded her reading parts of Carlo’s book, while her tortoise urinated everywhere. The final night we were in Rome was the night of the annual Communist Party of Italy Rally. The Communist cause being central to Giangiacomo’s life story, we were compelled to go along. So I went to the Rally in Rome, with Neon Neon. Standard. For the record, Gruff and Boom Bip don’t snore, Ryan the cameraman does, Gruff drinks a lot of coffee. Boom Bip can’t get email on his phone in Europe and driving around Italy in a blacked out splitter van, getting per diems off a tour manager, is the coolest thing I’ve ever done. And I’ve worked with Matthew Aubrey.

Tim Price, Writer

Photographs by Ryan Owen Eddleston, 3 Tim Price and Gruff Rhys. 4 a fascinating individual, as we could never truthfully walk in his shoes, or imagine the reality, complexity and gravity of the times he lived through within pop structures alone. Having fully accepted the sense of responsibility and risk that comes with the release of a Communist Euro pop concept album, we are hugely grateful to National Theatre Wales and the incredible creative and technical team they have enlisted (see the following pages), for helping us bring this album to life for you as a live performance. The result is a concert under the direction of Wils Wilson that goes far beyond anything we have attempted before, and one that has been a real joy to be part of. We hope you have a memorable experience in the company of the outstanding cast members Alex Beckett, Lisa Jên Brown, Matthew Bulgo, Dyfan Dwyfor, Daniel Hawksford, Bettrys Jones, Naomi Waring and in turn be inspired by Tim Price’s script, Scott Graham’s choreography, Chloe Lamford’s costumes and set design, Natasha Chivers’ lights, The video design of Tim Bird, Lucy Ockenden and their team, Kevin Smith’s surround sound, The hugely patient technical staff that makes this performance possible, any other names I’ve omitted (please read all the names in this booklet!) and last but not least, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli’s literary legacy. Reading is Resisting!

Here’s a random rundown of some of his various literary hits as a publisher:

The Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller

The Little Red Book — Chairman Mao

A Hundred Years Of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Around ten years ago, the legendary Italian “And I admit: that the publisher society. It would enrich society as a whole and The Habit of Loving — tour manager Dr Kiko prescribed me a copy is nothing, a mere meeting place, collectively empower the masses. That he lived Doris Lessing of Senior Service, the biography of Giangiacomo through such a violent, turbulent time in Italian Feltrinelli by his son Carlo. I was gripped where messages are received, history is our loss. On The Road — by this tale of conviction and contradiction. rerouted and transmitted... Today, in Praxis Makes Perfect we Jack Kerouac I bought many copies and distributed them Yet: the right messages must have re-rendered the Feltrinelli story, rather to friends including Boom Bip. than make a rhetorical, earnest record that The Bolivian Diaries — Five years ago, Boom Bip and I, as be received and rerouted, and social realism so often demands, we have Why Neon Neon, released an album called Stainless writing that rises to the level removed it to a Mediterranean island, possibly Style; a biography of John DeLorean which of reality must be received a liberated of Feltrinelli’s design, in an — we took as an exercise in exorcising some of approximate 1980’s. A middle of the road hotel Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa FELTRINELLI? our more demonic 1980s influences. The lyrics and transmitted. And so: the band are politically reawakened after seeing parodied the excesses of the big business publisher must throw himself a TV documentary on Feltrinelli, they book into — CEO, fast cars, chin implants and drug busts. headlong into reality, even at a recording studio inspired by the stars of the Boris Pasternak But otherwise it was a rags to riches to rags video jukebox that plays at the bar. Zucchero, again American dream turned Nightmare story. the risk of drowning.” Hall & Oates, Sabrina Salerno, Gloria Estefan Out Of Africa — It became apparent to us some and Martin Rev all inhabit their melodramatic Karen Blixen by Gruff Rhys time after the banking crash of 2008 that socialist daydreams as they hit the newly we should now focus on creating an album opened 24–track studio in the island’s capital. The Aleph — Giangiacomo Feltrinelli about Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. A very different In all seriousness, it seemed that only Jorge Luis Borges character, Feltrinelli during his dramatic life through creating such a contradictory musical demanded that both radical and beautiful accompaniment to the Feltrinelli story as this, texts should be available to everyone in could we maintain a distance worthy of such

5 6 “Can a publisher change the world? Only with difficulty: a publisher cannot even change his publisher. Can he change the world of books? He can publish certain books that come to be a part of the world of books and change it with their presence. This statement may seem formal and does not fully correspond with my thinking: my mirage, the thing that I hold to be the major factor behind that ‘Fortune’ I mentioned earlier, is the book that lays hold of you, that book that throws things out of kilter, the book that ‘does’ something to the people who read it, the book that is a ‘good listener’ and picks up and transmits messages that may well be mysterious but are sacrosanct, the book that amid the hotchpotch of everyday history listens to the final note, the one that will still ring out when the non-essential sounds have died away...”

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

“A publisher lives under bombardment, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Bolivia. Feltrinelli was also responsible for Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was an Italian publishing and disseminating ’s namely the bombardment of printed publisher and political activist. He was born iconic photograph of Che Guevara in the late in 1926 into one of Italy’s wealthiest families 1960s, after using it as the cover image of paper in a world that has become but, during his youth, took a keen interest in Guevara’s Bolivian Diary. the lives of workers and the poor. He joined His later years were spent as part smaller and devoid of frontiers, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during of the Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (GAP) and a publisher is glad of that World War II in order to fight the invading which he formed in 1970. He grew increasingly German army and Mussolini’s regime. militant in his activism and eventually died bombardment: from the bombs that In 1954, Feltrinelli established a in suspicious circumstances. He was found publishing company, Feltrinelli Editore. It was at the foot of a high-voltage power line fall on his desk he must choose the through this company that Feltrinelli published pylon near Milan in 1972, apparently killed several iconic texts including Doctor Zhivago by his own explosives. It is believed that the ones to throw back so that they may by Boris Pasternak and Giuseppe Tomasi Italian secret services had a part in his death explode in the minds of readers.” di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard. The PCI but no conclusive evidence was ever found. were reluctant to attack the , Around 8,000 people attended his funeral. and Feltrinelli was criticised for the publication of Doctor Zhivago. This led to his decision not Giangiacomo Feltrinelli to renew his membership of the party in 1957. As an activist, Feltrinelli travelled the world, making links with radical leaders and guerrilla movements, meeting people such as Cuban leader and Régis Debray

Images reproduced by kind permission of 7 the Feltrinelli Foundation. 8 9 10 Buy the album at lexrecords.com

Lyrics

Hoops with Fidel

Hoops with Fidel we keep bouncing ideas, Dr Zhivago And holding back tears of joy! Endless long dinners and glimmers of genius and endless dictation to tape! When I was young I didn’t know my left from right, on a beach, My parents kept me prisoner from love, It’s so peachy, And I grew up I noticed how some lives I could take it home, are born, And serve it up for my sweet, Into suffering and tragedy, With cream.

Fighting for my country against Communism on a beach, and cruelty, If we could just bottle it, Then I saw the workers plight, And send it round the world, Came to me in pieces building up a thesis, And everyone could revolutionise in, Rome wasn’t built overnight. Peace by Piece.

Dr Zhivago, I’m just waiting Congo and Bolivia, Hammer and Sickle for my cold embargo, Vietnam, Angola, Ciao Feltrinelli to be lifted and I’ll publish Let’s all drink from the same bottle, all your manuscripts tonight, Of rum and smoke. I don’t care about kingdoms and castles, Let’s bounce that beach ball round the place, I don’t care about pieces of gold, Death, Cold war dictator, once I believed let’s bounce up a better human race, All I know is that I’m in the middle, The Jaguar but now I can’t accept you, Now the whole world is a great big bouncing Mid Century Modern Nightmare The Leopard Is a junction, How you treated Pasternak and ball of opportunity. There’s a reader, Hungary – you upset me. A writer and a middle man, In the road. Look to the sky, Hoops with Fidel they get faster and A winner, a loser and a middle man, From my panoramic window, Things have to change just to stay the same, This violence of landscape, Dr Zhivago I’m just waiting faster and spell out disaster for me. A hammer, a sickle and a sick old man. I look down at the bourgeoisie, The leopard changed its spots again and again, Listen to the Rainbow That leads nowhere, They always said, for my cold embargo Hoops with Ernesto, They’re eating up your future whilst Too late to save the , You had a feeling for the earth, to be lifted and I’ll bathe in He runs hoops around me, Got the deal and the deeds to the city, sipping cups of tea, Umberto 2 said the last goodbye, To nothing, Stood in the shade of fascist architecture, your success and golden light. And drags me to fund his demise. Got the movie rights for your life, I spill some hot espresso on Listen to the rainbow, We still believe that one day justice will All I know is that I’m still in trouble, your shagpile carpet floor, In ‘48 it was time for a change, It’s talking to us, Forever, prevail. 1956 turned to 57 Communism on the beach, The referendum marked the end of an age, Listen to the rainbow, I was still a [communist] party animal, You can just feel the heat, There’s a reader, Shopping (I Like To) It’s talking with a minimum of fuss, It’s over, And I will always remember you smiling, But not for long, That’s coming down on me, A writer and a middle man, Well it’s a; One house and one millennium, It says: Running away from the rising, There had to be a better way to get our From every side and point of A winner, a loser and a middle man, Mid century modern nightmare, Umberto one to Umberto two again, Your body, Tide of emotion against you, point across so Justice could prevail today. view right now, A hammer, a sickle and a sick old man. Retail is in the detail. Mid century modern nightmare, It’s complicated when you’re so short of time, I’m chasing a jaguar’s tail. The detail is in the Mid century modern nightmare, The Leopard, to shepherd the Leopard. Give up your problems if you feel so inclined, In the ground, Dr Zhivago, I’m just waiting Communism on the beach, Once in a blue moon the poison comes retail. Sucking at you and me, Just re-align yourself to forces alive. Talk of the town, for my cold embargo, If we could just bottle it, in a potion, In every room of the house in Sicily, But ideas, And of the Polytechnic, to be lifted and I’ll publish And send it round the world, Shopping (I like to) You took the raw resources They had a leopard on every piece of livery, Listen to the rainbow, Talk of the smog, all your manuscripts tonight, And everyone could revolutionise in, Once in a lifetime the traps get stuck In your eyes, and sold them on as bribes, On all the flags that took delivery, It’s talking to us, Need no vessel, And all the tension in the air. Peace by Piece. in the sand, I see a franchise, But in the new republic we’ll On all the buildings and the burnt out Listen to the rainbow, Felt for the pulse, Cold war dictator, once I believed relish your demise, monasteries, It’s talking with authority and trust, Don’t decay, And for the comprehension, but now I can’t accept you, Congo and Bolivia, Seems like I’m always, A franchise, We’ll liberate Sardinia, It says: Talk of the fire, How you treated Pasternak and Vietnam, Angola, Starting up situations, I see in your eyes, It’s a rational design, Feltrinelli jumped like a jaguar typing But refine And all the pylons in the sky, Hungary – you upset me. Let’s all drink from the same bottle, That no one ever seem to command. Olivetti typewriter, Don’t massacre your mind with Of rum & smoke. Shopping (I Like to). Were in a; A man of letters and an agent of change, Cheap violins, And echo And I will always remember you smiling, Dr Zhivago I’m just waiting Let’s bounce that beach ball round the place, There’s a reader, I’ve got the books, Mid Century Modern Nightmare Yet the power of pens could not contain The sentimental is where problems begin. Running away from the rising, for my cold embargo let’s bounce up a better human race, A writer and a middle man, You’ve got the looks, Mid century modern nightmare, his rage, Just feed your conscience that is lying within, And echo, Tide of emotion against you, to be lifted and I’ll bathe in Now the whole world is a great big bouncing A winner, a loser and a middle man, I’ve got the books, Mid century modern nightmare, I’m chasing a jaguar’s tail. your success and golden light. ball of opportunity. A hammer, a sickle and a sick old man. You’ve got the looks. Sucking at you and me. The Leopard, to shepherd the Leopard. Rainbow, Rainbow, Sky. And echo...

11 12 The Jaguar Dr Zhivago

The idea that Feltrinelli as an iconoclast lived Feltrinelli’s most famous coup as a publisher so fast that it was impossible or futile for was to smuggle this dissident text out of the anyone to try and catch up with him. Having USSR. Having reached Berlin, he simply hid Praxis makes The Leopard as a title already, it seemed fitting it under his hotel bed and went out clubbing. to include more feline-themed songs. It soured his relationship with the Italian Communist party and confirmed in him ideals perfect that lay far beyond a brutalist doctrine.

Hoops With Fidel

Feltrinelli tried to obtain the rights to Castro’s memoirs. He flew to Havana many times to interview him – there are famous photos of Sensational headlines dogged them playing basketball during their lengthy Feltrinelli’s life and death. Here recording and debating sessions. The Cuban revolution inspired in are a handful embedded on a RAI Feltrinelli the belief that a real quantifiable friendly bed of current affairs music. change to people’s daily living conditions The title itself is taken from and general happiness was possible through an actual headline found in a 1960s revolution. A world beyond NATO and the Soviet bloc was possible, an union of unaligned counter–culture magazine at The states; the third world. He was excited by the Feltrinelli Library, Milan. possibility that through the practice of Debray’s The following pages contain foco theory, a true global change was possible. Gruff Rhys’ comments about the What if Cuba could be followed by Bolivia, songs in Praxis Makes Perfect, Vietnam, Angola? Like dominos, the workers and peoples of the world would fall for revolution! alongside designer Chloe Lamford’s Ultimately, Feltrinelli was frustrated inspiration moodboards. by Castro’s systematic persecution of gay people and artists, but nevertheless seemed to be drawn into the Bolivian escapades of Debray and Che Guevara. Furthermore, Castro also committed the huge mistake of trying to teach Feltrinelli, an Italian, how to cook pasta.

13 14 Shopping

A man of contradictions, Feltrinelli was a marketing genius and a master retailer, running a proto-megastore that also held art happenings and political rallies 30 years before the balloonist Branson. Shopping celebrates his continued afterlife in retail and features Italian pop star Sabrina Salerno as a kind of Doris Lessing-type character. She has the books, and he has the beautiful attributes needed to sell her challenging wares to the public, or is it the other way round?

Hammer and Sickle

Hammer and Sickle is a simple pop song for the publisher as a transmitter of ideas from one person to another. It has a driving beat. Feltrinelli once offered up, ‘The publisher is a vehicle for ideas,’ so this is a song to listen to in that vehicle whilst driving fast – he favoured a Citroën. The sick old man of this song is Stalin, or it could apply even to Khrushchev, so it’s also about his disillusion with the Soviet Communist party and the tests that are sent us in this life. Mid Century Modern Nightmare The Leopard

A rousing anthem that includes a call The Leopard, another of Feltrinelli’s hit novels to protest that Feltrinelli broadcast to the as a publisher, follows the downgrading of masses in with a pirate transmitter an old Sicilian upper class family. It mirrors from a Fiat car in 1970. the political upheavals of 20th-century Italy, It’s a protest against the stylistic the peaceful removal of the royal family by mid 20th century cultural stranglehold referendum in 1948, and even the turmoil of the that continues to clog up our pop culture Feltrinelli family itself. and strangle our forward-minded spirits 15 to this day. 16 Matthew Bulgo Bettrys Jones trained at LAMDA Listen to the Rainbow Theatre credits include: Theatre credits include: Mouse and his Child, A Midsummer Night’s The Feltrinelli publishing house offered a Clytemnestra, A Christmas Carol (Sherman Dream, Comedy of Errors (RSC), Manchester sanctuary to writers from all over the world Cymru), The City (Sherman Cymru/Living Lines (Manchester Library), The Adventure from conflicting viewpoints, from the Beats Pictures), Under Milk Wood (Royal & Derngate), (High Tide), The Snow Queen (Rose, Kingston), to Doris Lessing, Chairman Mao to Boris Cast Amphibians (Offstage Theatre), Breakfast 66 Books (Bush), The Dark Philosophers Pasternak, Lampedusa to Debray, magical Hearts, Choirplay, Patching Havoc (Theatre (National Theatre Wales/Told by an Idiot), realists, the revolutionary left, classics, art, 503), Feeding Time, The Play About the Baby And the Horse you Rode in On (Told by an Idiot), mathematics, physics, science, philosophy, (BAC), The Prince Hamlet (Toronto Dance The Crucible (Regent’s Park), Warhorse (New music. Feltrinelli’s rainbow housed them under Theatre), Hamlet (Natural Perspectives), The Theatre), Measure for Measure, Cariad a one arched multicoloured publishing utopia. Exquisite Corpse, Bash, Riddance (True/Fiction), (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), To Kill a Mockingbird Gull, Crazy Gary’s Mobile , The Secret of (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep), Belonging (Antic Corporation), A Midsummer The Little Years (The Orange Tree), Wait Until Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing Dark (Garrick Theatre), Partytime/One for the Ciao Feltrinelli (Mappa Mundi), Sweeney Agonistes (Arcola), Road (Battersea Arts Centre). Fidel Castro Alex Beckett Quinto Quarto (Union Theatre), The Dumb Film and Television credits include: Alex Beckett trained at RADA Waiter (GradCo), Shifts (Bristol Ferment), Skins, Private Peaceful. Eight thousand activists came to Giangiacomo’s Words and Music (Chapter). funeral in Milan. Here, we re-imagine the scene in a Italian News Announcer Theatre credits include: 1980s Morricone-like synthetic orchestral song, Lisa Jên Brown The Changeling (Young Vic), Here (The Rose Naomi Waring topped off with a reading of a passage from Theatre), 66 Books – A Nobody (The Bush Dyfan Dwyfor trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Carlo Feltrinelli’s book ‘Senior Service’ about Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s trained at the Royal Welsh College of Dramatic Arts his father, the book that provided the initial Theatre), Hotel in Amsterdam (Donmar Music & Drama inspiration for this project. Matthew Bulgo Warehouse), Fen (Finborough), Natural Selection (Theatre 503), The Brothers Grimm (Co-Creation This is her first production with National Feltrinelli as a young man Theatre), Hamlet (Creation Theatre), Starbucks Theatre credits include: Theatre Wales. Dyfan Dwyfor 24 Hour Voices (Old Vic New Voices), Swallow Ahasverus, Hamlet, Little Eagles, Romeo & Theatre credits include: Song (Oxford Playhouse), What We Talk About Juliet, Morte D’arthur, The Comedy Of Errors, Masque of the Red Death (Punchdrunk), When We Talk About Love (True Fiction). Che Guevara As You Like It (RSC) Six Characters In Search Fast Forward (), Television credits include: Of An Author (dir. Rupert Gould) and Hamlet Picking up Stitches (Theatre 503). Daniel Hawksford Burton and Taylor (BBC in 2014), Twenty (dir. Firenza Guidi). Film credits include: Twelve – Series 1 & 2 (BBC), Touch of Cloth Television credits include: Towheads, Hide and Seek, and Little Ones. (Zeppotron), Child’s Christmases in Wales Caerdydd, Rownd & Rownd, Pen Tennyn and A470. Feltrinelli as a boy / Carlo (BBC), Married, Single, Other (Leftbank Bettrys Jones Film credits include: Pictures), The Scum also Rises (BWARK), I Know You Know, The Baker and Oed Yr Addewid. (ITV), (Yorkshire Television), Hotel in Amsterdam (BBC). Naomi Waring Daniel Hawksford trained at the Royal Academy Of Lisa Jên Brown Dramatic Art Additional Cast Ricky Braithewaite Theatre credits include: Theatre credits include: Shrouk El-attar Siwan, Cysgod y Cryman (Theatr Genedlaethol Rachel Fisher The Dark Philosophers (National Theatre Wales), Cymru), Egg and Spoon (Lyngo Theatre), Salted The Bible, Macbeth, King Lear (Shakespeare’s Addie Fissha (Tryater Theatre Company), Diwrnod Dwynwen Globe), Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), Donna Griffiths (Script Cymru). X-Fod, O’r Tu Ôl, Hardcore Judgement Day (Almeida), The Hour We Knew Bethesda Fuzz (Theatr Bara Caws). Nothing of Each Other, Much Ado About Nothing Hiba Jamal Film and Television credits include: Kelly Jones (Royal National Theatre), Memory (ESG New Rownd a Rownd, Emyn Roc a Rol, Tipyn o Stad, York), Aqua Nero (Sgrip Cymru), Memory, Troilus Jeremy Linnell A470, Y Rhaglen Wirion Na, Cnex, Separado. & Cressida, Romeo & Juliet (Theatr Clwyd), Daniel Lloyd radio credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The School of Bethan Marsh Call of Fame. Night, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew Lisa also sings for the Welsh folk (RSC), Jackets (Young Vic), The Pull of Negative Niyaz Saghari roots band and features in music videos Maeve Scullion Gravity (59E59 Theatre New York). and tours with Candylion. Film and Television credits include: Hannah Simmons Panda Eyes (Rainy Day Films), Pelican Blood Darren Webber (Ecosse Films), Flesh & Blood (Red & Black John Williams Films), Waking the Dead (BBC), Colditz (Granada Television).

17 18 Chloe Lamford Scott Graham Designer Choreographer

Chloe Lamford trained in theatre design at Scott Graham is Artistic Director of Frantic Wimbledon School of Art. She recently won Assembly, co-directing Little Dogs (with the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Design National Theatre Wales), Lovesong, Beautiful for Performance. Burnout (with National Theatre of Scotland, Creative & Designs for Theatre: Fringe First), Othello (TMA award – Best With The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Direction), Stockholm, pool (no water), Dirty (National Theatre Wales), Disco Pigs, Sus Wonderland, Rabbit, Peepshow and Underworld. Production Team and Blackta (costume design) (Young Vic Director/performer credits include: thanks to… Theatre), My Shrinking Life, Appointment Hymns, Tiny Dynamite, On Blindness, Heavenly, with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens Sell Out, Zero, Flesh, Klub and Look Back In (National Theatre Scotland), Salt, Root and Anger. Other directing credits include: Home Roe (Donmar Warehouse), (Headlong (National Theatre of Scotland), and Ker-ching Theatre), Cannibals and The Gate Keeper (Sixth Sense). (Manchester Royal Exchange), Ghost Story Scott also provided choreography/ Gruff Rhys Tim Bird Lucy Davies Alex Russell Sarah Jane Leigh Tim Price (Sky Arts Live Drama), Britannicus (Wilton’s movement direction for The Curious Incident of Carlo Feltrinelli Neon Neon Video Designer / Producer / Production Researcher / Writer Music Hall), My Romantic History (Crucible, the Dog in the Night-Time (Olivier nomination Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation Musician / Dylunydd Fideo Cynhyrchydd Electrician / Ymchwilydd Sheffield/Bush), Joseph K, The Kreutzer for best choreography), Port, Hothouse and Feltrinelli Editore Cerddor Trydanwr y Sonata (Gate), Songs from a Hotel Bedroom Market Boy (Royal National Theatre), Dr Dee Theatrical Services Nina Dunn David Evans Cynhyrchiad Kyla Miller Theatre credits include: (Linbury Studio ROH + Tour), It Felt Empty… (Manchester International Festival/ENO), Jan Michaelis, Welsh National Bryan Hollon Video Designer / Production Stage Management The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (Clean Break), Everything Must Go! and This Frankenstein (Royal & Derngate), The May Stage Sound Services ‘Boom Bip’ Dylunydd Fideo Manager / Rosa Schofield Placement / (National Theatre Wales, tour), For Once Wide Night (Soho Theatre), The Mother Ship, Queen (Liverpool Everyman), Villette (Stephen Andy Carrington Neon Neon Rheolwr Design Assistant / Profiad Gwaith (Pentabus, Hampstead Theatre and national How to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits Joseph Theatre). With Steven Hoggett White Light Musician / Lucy Ockenden Cynhyrchu Cynorthwyydd Rheoli Llwyfan tour) Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse, (Birmingham Rep), Small Miracle (Tricycle/ and Bryony Lavery, he created It Snows, a Dave Owens Cerddor Associate Video Dylunio Trafalgar Studios) which was nominated for Mercury, Colchester – Winner Best Design National Theatre Connections play for 2008. Freedom Flying Designer / Richard Balshaw Hannah Bunten the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement TMA awards). With Steven Hoggett, he has written The Frantic Alun Llwyd Wils Wilson Dylunydd Fideo Company Ruth Stringer RWCMD in an Affiliate Theatre, Demos (Traverse Designs for Opera: Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (Routledge). Kevin Tame Director / Cysylltiol Stage Manager / Design Assistant / Placement / Theatre), Will and George shortlisted for the The Little Sweep/Let’s Make An Opera Turnstile Music Cyfarwyddwr Rheolwr Cynorthwyydd Profiad Verity Bargate Award 2011, and Café Cariad (Malmo Opera House, Sweden), The Magic Lex Records Mawgaine Llwyfan y Cwmni Dylunio Gwaith CBCDC (National Youth Theatre of Wales). Flute (English Touring Opera), War and Peace Matt Wild, Wild Creations Ltd Tim Price Tarrant-Cornish (Scottish Opera/ RCS), Cunning Little Vixen, Michael Beer Writer / Awdur Assistant Cassie Broom Moira Lam Azizul Zahid Jamal Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Director / Deputy Animation RWCMD Music) and La Calisto (Early Opera Company). BJM Ltd Chloe Lamford Cyfarwyddwr Stage Manager / Assistant / Placement / Wils Wilson Future projects include: Getty Images Designer / Cynorthwyol RHEOLWR LLWYFAN Cynorthwyydd Profiad Director The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible) and 1984 Andy Hopkins, 11th Hour Events Ltd Dylunydd Animeiddio Gwaith CBCDC (Headlong Theatre), Circle Mirror Transformation Matt North Dan McIntosh and Open Court (Royal Court). Kirstie Evans Natasha Chivers Sound Gillian Tan Wils Wilson was co-founder and co-Artistic Rorie Brophy Lighting System Design / Assistant Director of site-specific theatre company Trolleywise Designer / Dylunydd Visual Engineer / wilson+wilson (1997-2007), co-creating Gomer.co.uk Dylunydd Golau Systemau Sain Peiriannydd Chris Walmsley HOUSE, Mapping the Edge, News from the Natasha Chivers Louise, Sherman Cymru Gweledol Drums / Drymiau Seventh Floor and Mulgrave, taking audiences Lighting Designer Clwyd Theatr Cymru Kevin Smith LARA BRADBEER Cynorthwyol into an abandoned house, through a department Production 78 Sound Designer / COSTUME Meilyr Jones store at night, on a four-mile journey through Milgi Dylunydd Sain SUPERVISOR / FIONNA Allen Bass / Bâs the woods and across a city by bus, tram Work includes: Anglepoise GORUCHWYLIWR Assistant to Stage and on foot. Macbeth (Barrymore Theatre, Broadway/Lincoln Scott Graham GWISGOEDD Management / Sean Rampton Recent directing credits include: Centre/Tramway Glasgow), The Green Snake Choreographer / Cynorthwyydd Vocals / Cantor Manchester Lines (Library Theatre Company), (National Theatre Of China), The Radicalisation Coreograffydd Chris Harrower Rheoli Llwyfan which took audiences into a bespoke Lost Of Bradley Manning (National Theatre Wales), Tour Manager / Property office on the fifth floor of an office Statement Of Regret (Royal National Theatre), Jess Williams Rheolwr Taith Jacqui George block high above Manchester City Centre Electric Counterpoint (Royal Opera House), Assistant Assistant Company (winner of a TMA Award), and HOME Shetland, Encore (Ballet Boyz at Sadler’s Wells), 27, Choreographer / Ceri James Manager / Gobbo - The Adventure of the Watchmaker, The Wheel and Wolves in The Walls (National Coreograffydd Technical Rheolwr Cwmni and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart Theatre Of Scotland) and lighting for The Kings Cynorthwyol Manager / Cynorthwyol for National Theatre of Scotland (all winners and Queens Apartment at Kensington Palace. Rheolwr of Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland) and Awards include: Technegol Tom Wakeham most recently Ignition. The Strange Undoing Olivier Award 2007 for Best Lighting Design – Technician / of Prudencia Hart (which also won a Herald Sunday In The Park With George John Tee Technegydd Angel) is currently touring internationally. TMA Award 2011 for Best Design Production (with Lizzie Clachan) – Happy Days Electrician / Scott Fitzgerald Trydanwr y Crew / Criw Cynhyrchiad

19 20 AN ICONIC BRITISH BRAND Invented by a car designer Licensed to a spring maker A pioneer for energy efficiency Capturing the zeitgeist There is only one Anglepoise® One of Britain’s most iconic and instantly Naturally Carwardine turned to world-class Throughout its history, energy conservation has The aesthetic and remarkably engaging, Just as Hoover became the definitive name identifiable products, the Anglepoise® spring makers, Herbert Terry and Sons, to remained high on the Anglepoise® agenda. The anthropomorphic quality of a lamp that can for a vacuum cleaner, since its introduction in lamp started out its life as a remarkably manufacture his design. Terry’s was one of shade of Carwardine’s original lamp had been constantly change its form has inspired 1934 the Anglepoise® name has come to stand complex engineering concept, created in the few companies able to produce springs designed to concentrate the beam, maximising musicians, artists, designers and writers over for a whole genre of articulated task lights. Yet 1932 by George Carwardine (1887-1948), of such complexity and had already extended light intensity whilst minimising consumption the years. In 1979, post punk pop group, The the original articulated system was conceived an automotive engineer who developed their business to manufacture products that of electricity. Right from the outset Terry’s were Soft Boys, made it into the pop charts with the and patented in 1932 by George Carwardine and vehicle suspension systems. used the springs they made. In 1932, a patent to focus on the Anglepoise® Original1227’s song “I want to be an Anglepoise lamp”. First subsequent patents were granted as the design was acquired. Equipoise, the chosen name for energy-saving potential, claiming that the appearing in the computer-animated indent of the lamp was developed. Whilst there are It’s all about the springs the product, was rejected by the Trade Marks precision with which the beam could be that launched Pixar in 1986, an Anglepoise® numerous articulated lamps on the market, few Carwardine had developed a formula for Registry as it was a word in common parlance focused allowed an inexpensive 25-watt bulb character now features in the company logo, inspire the emotional attachment that drew 25 a new type of spring that would remain so the name Anglepoise® was registered and, to deliver the effective power of a 60-watt. The bouncing into shot at the start of every film. designers, when interviewed by Jeremy Myerson perfectly in position after being moved. under licence to Terry’s, the first Anglepoise® distinctive structure of the lamp was cast in In 1985, innovative sculptor, David Mach in 1992, to vote the Anglepoise® Original1227 The tensile quality of the spring allowed lamp, the 1209, was launched. metal and made to last; planned obsolescence formed a large flowing hand out of 360 black “the favourite light of all time”. an accuracy and delicacy of movement has never figured in Anglepoise® strategy. Anglepoise® lamps for an exhibition at the that was to set Anglepoise® apart from Reworked for a domestic market Later, in the early 80’s, Anglepoise® was Oxford Museum of Modern Art. The Anglepoise® An iconic BRITISH brand previous desk lamp designs. This four-spring Anglepoise was deemed too one of the earliest adopters of the compact lamp that sat on the desk of Roald Dahl was To celebrate its 75th anniversary, in 2009 the industrial for a domestic market so, in 1935, fluorescent bulb and a series of LED lamps considered so much a part of the writer’s Anglepoise® Original1227 was featured on a A structure that mimics human flexion Carwardine, together with the designers at now feature within its extensive portfolio. persona that, in 2004, a Giant version of the Royal Mail stamp, alongside such British design Carwardine discovered that pivoting arms, Terry’s, developed a three-spring version. Anglepoise® Original1227 lamp was specially Icons as the Concorde, the Routemaster bus supported by a sequence of the new springs, The design, known as the Anglepoise® Opening a new chapter commissioned for the Roald Dahl Museum and and the Mini. would mimic the constant tension principle Original1227, was to be refined over the When, in 2003, Simon Terry, great great Story Centre. The Giant1227 has since gone into of human limbs, able to be repositioned years but is generally considered the grandson of Herbert Terry joined the family volume production. Anglepoise® lamps have Today, examples of the Anglepoise®, a with the lightest touch, yet remaining archetypal Anglepoise® lamp. company, it had become clear that an update of also featured in many of the James Bond films, quintessentially British brand, can be seen perfectly in place once released. Through the original Anglepoise® design was required most recently seen in the dramatic set for the in London in the Design Museum, the V&A his experimentation Carwardine had if the brand were to maintain its authority and MI6 underground HQ in Skyfall. and the Science Museum. chanced upon the means to create an successfully stave off competition. Here was to articulated task lamp that could combine begin a longstanding and on-going collaboration To find out more about Anglepoise® visit ultimate flexibility with perfect stability. with pre-eminent British product designer, Sir www.anglepoise.com Kenneth Grange. Grange’s subsequent designs for the Anglepoise® Type3, Type75, Type1228 National Theatre Wales and Neon Neon are and the TypeC LED series have seamlessly grateful for the kind support of Anglepoise. integrated form with function and are a perfect fit, both with the original design concept and with the company’s modernist design ethos.

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