Gruppo Nanou’s Motel spells the unfurling of an absence, by spreading non-motivated actions (that are clear and rarified as a scoundrel-imaginary’s fossils), evocative sounds (the flow of a film, the crossing of radio-frequencies looking for tunes) and spectral sparkles (that show and hide at the same time), among the featureless furniture of a cinemascope interior. From the limbo a black tuba-dressed figure invites us to mirror in, it comes out exercises of mutual loneliness, distilled by Marco Valerio Amico and Rhuena Bracci with vibrant detachment, personal values that are stolen and then abandoned like the skins of a reality that doesn’t allow us to catch it but for sudden lightings.
Andrea Nanni – Hystrio
Motel works inside us a time long; its strong images remain fixed in the spectator’s memory, [...]they’re destined to settle like dust.
Kiara Copek – Krapp’s Last Post
Beautifully coming in and out of a brainteaser furniture, Gruppo Nanou launches the first room the Motel project, and Marco Valerio Amico and Rhuena Bracci create their minimalist tableaux vivants, which look like inspired by Hopper’s wonderful bourgeois paintings.
Rodolfo Di Giammarco – La Repubblica
The plot, at the same time on and out of the stage, it is filtered by the room of the Motel, to reveal itself as a drama and cubist construction that take apart and tears to pieces time and space in order to flatten them on the same surface.
Matteo Antonaci – exibart
Minimalistic actions, repeated gestures, untouchable relationships in a hanging and icily stylized atmosphere of an ideal Motel that seems to have gone out from the hidden parts of the unconscious: The project in three phases takes place in this metaphorical place of passage where the interesting gruppo nanou from Ravenna is developing it on a thin border between theatre and dance.
Renato Palazzi – DelTeatro.it
If in the First Room, dominated by iced colour – white, ice, green and black – you have the impression to attend at the vain attempt of re-establish an order (sentimental) definitely compromised, in the Second Room, dominated by warm colors – red, brown and avana – you feel the oncoming danger, a more erotic atmosphere.
Andrea Nanni – Hystrio