The Unexpected Experience is the leitmotif of the 2018/2019 theatre season of the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, rich and varied in the proposals that make up its programme, and which, from next October until April 2019, will animate the historic city hall, respecting its natural vocation for contemporary drama.
An intense program that will host, in addition to the nine shows in fixed subscription, five optional shows, two season previews, a double focus on contemporary dance with the Monday Dance 2018 and Quelli che la Danza 2019 reviews, the second edition of the Stand Up Comedy Live in Naples review and the third edition of Il Nuovo suona giovane, the Migranti Bandoneón and La Rete dell'Immaginario reviews, which will complete the entire program.
The 2018/2019 season subscription formula (for loyal and new visitors) includes eleven shows, composed of the nine subscription shows plus two to choose from among the five optional ones. Further discounts are available for those who sign up for a subscription by July 27, 2018, which will extend to all the shows scheduled throughout the season and to some events presented in collaboration with the Sala Assoli.
"We have embraced the slogan Esperienza Inaspettato - underlines the director Alfredo Balsamo - because the experience of the unique and unrepeatable relationship that the theater establishes between the actors and the audience in this hall, due to its characteristics of place and space, takes on a strong, evident meaning. Perhaps also because the program designed for this new season, the eighth directed by the Teatro Pubblico Campano, is the fruit of the experience of these years of constant observation and reflection on the increasingly changeable cultural sensitivity of the public. We believe, or at least we hope, that this program rich in crossovers between genres and styles, between new and old representational urgencies, can arouse surprise and curiosity".
The faces of important artists from the theatre scene, including Claudio Santamaria with Marlene Kuntz, Chiara Caselli, Marco Baliani, Giuseppe Battiston, Imma Villa, Fausto Russo Alesi, Francesco Di Leva, Chiara Baffi, Daria Deflorian, Monica Piseddu, Tony Laudadio, Lino Musella, Michelangelo Dalisi, Francesco Brandi, Giulio Forges Davanzati, will give voice and soul to the stories on the Neapolitan stage.
A stage that will host shows and reinterpretations by important directors, in some cases also performers on stage, from the national and international scene such as Antonio Latella, Roberto Latini, Andrea Renzi, Pierpaolo Sepe, Carlo Cerciello, Raphael Tobia Vogel, Maria Maglietta, Fabrizio Arcuri, Paolo Valerio, Gianfelice Imparato, Pino Carbone, Mario Gelardi, Fortunato Calvino, who will bring to the stage texts by authors ranging, among others, from Robin Maugham to Daniel Glattauer, from Nick Paine to Dennis Kelly, from Carlo G. Gabardini to Manlio Santanelli, from Linda Dalisi to Francesco Brandi.
The theatre season will open on Thursday 11 October 2018 (on stage until the 14th) with Gianfelice Imparato directing iNuovi, the young graduates of the Orazio Costa School for Actors of the Fondazione Teatro della Toscana, in Eduardo per i Nuovi. De Filippo's comic repertoire is also staged with a transposition of the dialect, to make it clear that the mechanisms of comic dramaturgy, of which Eduardo had great knowledge, are universal.
From October 20 to 21, 2018, the author and director Fortunato Calvino takes us into the world of La Tarantina L'ultimo Femminièllo dei Quartieri Spagnoli, with La Tarantina (Carmelo Cosma), and with Luigi Credendino, Roberto Maiello and Antonio Clemente. A play-testimony of his story, of his life and of how cruel it can sometimes be.
From Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 October 2018, Francesco Di Leva will be the interpreter of Muhammad Ali, a show by Pino Carbone and Francesco Di Leva, with dramaturgy by Linda Dalisi. On stage an actor and a director who, under the eyes of the spectators, emotionally, poetically and artistically build the show. The inspiration comes concretely from the body of Muhammad Ali, a trained body, put into play, challenged, praised, observed, acclaimed.
From 8 to 11 November 2018, Tony Laudadio, Emilia Scarpati Fanetti, Andrea Renzi, Lino Musella, Maria Laila Fernandez will be on stage in The Servant by Robin Maugham, translated by Lorenzo Pavolini, directed by Andrea Renzi and Pierpaolo Sepe. The work by Andrea Renzi and Pierpaolo Sepe starts from the theatrical adaptation that Maugham made in 1958, and evokes the atmosphere of the famous film by Joseph Losey from 1963 with the screenplay by Harold Pinter. The translation by Lorenzo Pavolini intertwines the two versions of the text, focusing essentially on the writing of the novel.
++Antonio Latella will bring to the stage, from 16 to 18 November 2018, Aminta by Torquato Tasso, in the dramaturgy of Linda Dalisi, with Michelangelo Dalisi, Emanuele Turetta, Matilde Vigna, Giuliana Bianca Vigogna. Antonio Latella's suggestions on Aminta by Torquato Tasso, lead the Stabilemobile company to confront the great Italian author, starting from the coexistence in it of two forces: the unprejudiced search for linguistic innovation, and the tension towards a classicism to be reinterpreted.
From 22 to 25 November 2018 it will be the turn of Claudio Santamaria and Marlene Kuntz in Il Castello di Vogelod, a musical journey into Murnau's film between words and images, directed by Fabrizio Arcuri. This film in particular is extremely theatrical for the plot and the claustrophobia it manages to create, always remaining within four walls. The direction of the film is overlapped by a theatrical direction that increases and strengthens the tension thanks to the soundtrack by Marlene Kuntz, and the voice and interpretation of Claudio Santamaria, who becomes the narrator of the story but also an actor acting on the scene.
Chiara Caselli and Paolo Valerio will be on stage, from 12 to 16 December 2018, in Le ho mai raccontano del vento del Nord by Daniel Glattauer, translated by Andrea Cipriani, directed by Paolo Valerio. An email to the wrong address and a spark ignites between two perfect strangers. As in a modern fairy tale, after overcoming the initial awkwardness, a playful friendship develops between Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike, marked by complicity and mutual ironic thrusts, and destined to soon evolve into a much more powerful feeling, which risks overwhelming them both.
Marco Baliani will kick off the new year's programming with two shows in succession. From 12 to 13 January 2019 he will star in Kohlhaas from the story Michele Kohlhaas by H. von Kleist, co-written with Remo Rostagno, directed by Maria Maglietta. It is the story of an injustice that, not resolved through the law, generates a spiral of increasingly uncontrollable violence, but always in the name of an ideal of natural and earthly justice.
From 16 to 20 January 2019, Marco Baliani will be on stage again with Corpo di Stato, written and directed by Maria Maglietta. The fifty-five days of Moro's imprisonment tell of a laceration, of how the theme of revolutionary violence had to deal with a prisoner body. This image became a watershed for choices that had been postponed until then, giving rise to questions and internal conflicts that could no longer be resolved with slogans or ideological practices.
From January 30 to February 3, 2019, Giuseppe Battiston will star in Churchill by Carlo G. Gabardini, directed by Paola Rota. The text shows Churchill in a dreamlike present, in which his entire existence is co-present, and ends up speaking to us and about us today, with disarming precision. Battiston meets the figure of Churchill, brings him to the stage, reinvents him, investigates the mystery of man through the magic of theater, without ever losing his powerful sense of irony.
Raphael Tobia Vogel directs Sebastiano Bottari, Francesco Brandi, Miro Landoni, Daniela Piperno, Sara Putignano, from 20 to 24 February 2019, in Buon anno, ragazzi. by Francesco Brandi, a hilarious comedy about the inability to express our feelings, to use a loyal and, why not, sweet vocabulary, with the people closest to us.
Brandi's text evokes the human error of thinking that evil, of whatever nature it may be, always happens to others.
In March, from 2 to 3, Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni will be on stage, a project by Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini, with Daria Deflorian, Monica Piseddu, Antonio Tagliarini and Valentino Villa. The starting point and background of the work is a strong image, taken from the opening pages of the novel L'esattore by the Greek writer Petros Markaris, written in 2011. We are in the midst of the Greek economic crisis when the bodies of four women, pensioners, who have voluntarily taken their own lives, are found.
Chiara Baffi and Alessandro Palladino will be the protagonists, from 6 to 10 March 2019, in Nerium Park by Josep Maria Mirò, translated by Angelo Savelli, directed by Mario Gelardi.
Marta and Gerardo are a young couple who decide to buy, through a thirty-year mortgage, a prestigious apartment in a newly built housing complex on the outskirts of the city. The show tells the story of twelve months in the life of Marta and Gerardo, who have no way of getting rid of that house, which no one wants anymore.
From 20 to 24 March 2019, the programming will continue with Imma Villa and Fausto Russo Alesi in Regina Madre by Manlio Santanelli, adapted and directed by Carlo Cerciello.
A deeply ambiguous drama, set in a place of the mind where the two actors give life to a real duel between Mother and Son, fought with that deadly and fantastic weapon that is the word.
Roberto Latini signs the adaptation and direction of Cantico dei Cantici, in which he also interprets, on stage from 3 to 4 April 2019. It is one of the oldest texts in all literature.
Pervaded by sweetness and care, by perfumes and imaginations, it is one of the most important, perhaps one of the most mysterious. A hymn to beauty, both shy and demanding, a bolero between listening and relationship, abstractions and concreteness, a balm for body and spirit.
The theatre season will close, from 10 to 14 April 2019, with the show Incognito by Nick Payne, translated and directed by Andrea Trovato, with Graziano Piazza, Anna Cianca, Giulio Forges Davanzati, Désirée Giorgetti. After the great successes in London and New York, the new theatre work by the young English playwright, considered by critics as the new Tom Stoppard, arrives for the first time in Italy. The protagonist of the text is undoubtedly the brain, this wonderful and surprising organ whose mechanism is still being studied by Science.
The artistic proposal of the Teatro Nuovo of Naples will also extend, next season, its gaze on contemporary dance, proposing, in addition to Quelli che la Danza 2019, the second edition of the Monday Dance review, a journey through the most interesting choreographic expressions of Campania, with eleven events for four Mondays, from October to December 2018.
The second edition of the Stand Up Comedy Live in Naples review, presented by Teatro Pubblico Campano in collaboration with Altra Scena, with five events from December 2018 to April 2019. will host Giorgio Montanini, Edoardo Ferrario, Francesco Arienzo, with their new shows, Francesco De Carlo and Daniele Fabbri.
Music will once again be the protagonist of the next season with the third edition of the Il Nuovo Suona Giovane festival, presented by Teatro Pubblico Campano in collaboration with Progetto Sonora, to give body and prominence to various musical languages of our time. Six events, scheduled from January to April 2019.
Migranti Bandoneón, a tango festival dedicated to the sensual and captivating Argentine dance, will invade the Teatro Nuovo in Naples from November 29 to December 1, 2018.
There will also be La Rete dell'Immaginario, the eighteenth edition of the theatre festival for high schools, scheduled from November 2018 to March 2019.
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