From July 30th to September 2nd, “Classico Contemporaneo” returns to the magnificent cloister of the Convent of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples. The show kicks off on Monday, July 30th at 9:30 pm with "The Game of Love and Chance" by Pierre De Marivaux, directed by Mirko Di Martino, with assistant director Titti Nuzzolese. Featuring Antonio Buonanno, Antonella Liguoro, Tommaso Sabia, Alessia Thomas, and Gabriele Savarese, the show repeats on Tuesday, August 31st and Wednesday, August 1st at 9:30 pm. Marivaux's masterpiece is brought to life in a contemporary, lively, and entertaining version, with a young cast and plenty of room for love and play, misunderstandings, and disguises. On Thursday, August 2nd (9:30 pm), Raffaello Converso performs in concert: a wonderful, unmissable concert between Naples and Spain, featuring songs from different eras of history and customs, musically revisited with a Mediterranean sound.
Friday 3 August 2018 (21.30:XNUMX pm), “Quatt' manc' tre” – Ionesco’s lesson. Dramaturgy by Mauro De Simone, directed by Alessandro Tedesco, with Mauro De Simone, Alessio Sordillo, Alessandro Tedesco.
Ionesco's masterpiece denounces the absurdity of life and social relationships through the universe of parody: a comic drama rewritten in the Neapolitan language.
Saturday 4 August (21.30:XNUMX pm), “My name is Mimì” – Mia Martini between prose and music, by and with Sarah Falanga. Mia Martini is a modern myth of Italian pop music. About twenty years after her death, the singer is freer and more present than ever. The show gives the audience the story of a man who loved Mimì, perhaps without her knowing it.
The program continues on Sunday 5th, again at 21.30:XNUMX pm, with “'O Flauto Maggico”, taken from The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Dramaturgy and direction Mirko Di Martino
with Orazio Cerino and live music by Bruno Tomasello. This is a storytelling show with music and noises performed live, suitable for adults and children. The language used is a mixture of Italian and Neapolitan, prose and verse. The soundtrack overturns Mozart's original score with Mediterranean and electronic sounds. Monday 6 August, 21.30:XNUMX pm, “Trojan Women. Daughters of a Lesser God” by Euripides directed by Iole Vyolette Schioppi and Umberto Salvato. With Clara Bocchino, Beatrice Vento, Giovanna Landolfi, Marialuisa Bosso, Angela Garofalo. A transposition into Neapolitan of Euripides' Trojan Women. The rewriting takes Greek tragedy as a model, capturing the eternal contemporaneity of classical civilization.
To follow: Tuesday 7 August at 21.30:8 pm “Maria Stuarda”, freely adapted from Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller with Marta Bettulo. Adaptation and direction by Stefano Eros Macchi. Schiller’s famous and powerful tragedy comes to life again in a two-voice monologue that re-proposes the clash between two queens, Maria and Elisabetta, who are also sisters. Wednesday 21.30 August at 9:10 pm “Cyrano Station” by Edmond Rostand with Alessandro Balletta, Fortuna Liguori, Gaetano Migliaccio directed by Roberto Ingenito. An inspired walk between the lines, the stories, the verses of poets who are deeply in love or terribly liars. Love lives between the verses of poets. But what if it were just the invention of a mocking god? Thursday 9 August “Orfeo. Piombato giù” by Cristian Izzo. Adapted from Rilke, Nietzsche, Pavese, Savinio, directed and interpreted by Roberto Azzurro. The shepherd who chases the Moon and finds himself reasoning about the Moon, becomes Leopardi himself, a poet. Thus the words of Rilke, Pavese, Savinio and the others, no longer have an author. Friday 10 August “L'incoronata. Luisa Sanfelice”, dramaturgy by Emanuele Tirelli with Iolanda Salvato, Maia Salvato, Laura Pepe, Salvatore Veneruso directed by Iolanda Salvato. On the night between 1799 and XNUMX September, the ghost of Luisa Sanfelice appears to take revenge on Ferdinand of Bourbon. Crowned mother of the fatherland, guilty of the state and unfaithful, Luisa temporarily saved the Neapolitan Republic of XNUMX.
Saturday 11 August (21.30:12 pm) Monica Pinto in concert with “Neapolitan songs between tradition and modernity”. With Ernesto Nobili on guitar, it is the concert in which the intense and passionate voice of Monica Pinto, meeting the original arrangements of Ernesto Nobili, creates a new code that looks to the traditional classical language but includes modern sounds. Sunday 21.30 August (2.0:13 pm), “Gli innamorati 21.30” by Carlo Goldoni. Directed by Andrea Cioffi with Alessandro Balletta, Andrea Cioffi, Viola Forestiero, Sara Guardascione, Franco Nappi. The show is set in a dimension suspended between present and past: the social conventions that grip Goldoni's protagonists are the same “social” tensions that imprison us today. Monday XNUMX August (XNUMXpm), “Twins yes, brothers no” by Raffaele Speranza based on “The Paradox of the Actor” by Diderot and “Don Giovanni” by Molière with Ernesto Lama and Antonio Speranza directed by Ernesto Lama.
The show is freely inspired by the “Paradox on the Actor”, a treatise on dramatic art written by Denis Diderot between 1770 and 1780. What would happen if an actor used his technique off stage, with the people he meets in everyday life?
Tuesday 14 August (21.30pm) “Socrate Superstar” by Antonio Gargiulo from Plato, Aristophanes and Antisthenes directed by Antonio Gargiulo with Arianna Cristillo, Antonio Granatina, Antonio Gargiulo, Sara Saccone, Dalila Paragliola, Andrea Pacelli.
A faithful account of the facts and founding principles of Socratic thought, peppered with anecdotes, with a light spirit, as amused as possible to enjoy the beautiful thought and invite the spectators to enjoy it together. Wednesday 15 August (21.30 pm) “Ferragosto al Chiostro”. Thursday 16 August 2018 (21.30 pm), “Il medico dei pazzi” by Eduardo Scarpetta directed by Salvatore Sannino with Salvatore Sannino, Danilo Rovani, Veria Ponticiello, Maurizio Fiorillo, Flora Volpicelli, Giorgio Anzuoni, Adriano Fiorillo, Luca Lombardi, Giuseppe Di Gennaro, Giovanna Sannino, Stefania Ciancio. Eduardo Scarpetta's comic masterpiece comes to life again in a fast, essential, very current production.
Friday 17 August 2018 at (21.30 pm) “Pulcinella morto e risorto”, text and direction by Alessandro Paschitto, with Alessandro Paschitto, Raimonda Maraviglia, Mario Autore. What would happen if Pulcinella, Lucifer's infernal servant, were cast out, forced to return to earth, even to enroll at the University? If he had to go back to live in his Mother's house, if he were forced to meet his old flame? Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 August (21.30 pm), “The Barber of Seville” by Pierre de Beaumarchais and Gioacchino Rossini. Project and direction by Gianmarco Cesario. With Gennaro Ciotola, Ivan Improta, Carlo Liccardo, Francesco Luongo, Enzo Padulano, Laura Pagliara, Giuseppe Madonna. Musical arrangements by Mariano Bellopede On the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioacchino Rossini, the show reworks the original libretto through contamination with the script by Beaumarchais, rearranging the opera in a modern key. Monday 20 August (21.30 pm), “Come una capinera”, freely adapted from the novel by Giovanni Verga “Storia di una capinera”. With Anna Rita Vitolo, Roberto Matteo Giordano, Francesca Annunziata, Alfio Battaglia, Mattia Coppola, Maria Sperandeo. Adaptation and direction by Roberto Matteo Giordano.
The show uses the language of love and its variety of feelings and emotions to tell the story of the nun Maria. Joy, happiness, but above all fear, madness, obsession mark the rhythm of a dark narration. Tuesday 21 August (21.30 pm), “Love Cabaret”, based on Ovid's The Art of Loving by and with Rebecca Furfaro and Raimonda Maraviglia. Directed by Daniele Sannino. Ovid wrote about the art of conquest and seduction. What would happen if we tried to implement his suggestions today? Two women, in a cabaret style, will try to explain it following in a comical, grotesque and all too realistic show. Wednesday 22 August at 21.30 pm, “Pino Daniele in Blues 4 Ever” directed by Ivan Improta. With Gianni Scardamaglio, Simona Vergara and Francesca Romana Bergamo musicians Giancarlo Sannino, Luca Mattei, Claudio Vergara, Paolo Tarallo, Vincenzo Paolo Lo Schiavo. An emotional journey that takes the audience back to the places of Pino Daniele's Naples to tell his idea of music in perpetual movement. The life and encounters of a unique man emerge, between appocundria, music and poetry.
Thursday 23 August (21.30pm), “Con permesso, don Raffaè”, freely inspired by the song by Fabrizio De Andrè. With Federico Moschetti and Irene Scialanca. Inspired by De Andrè, the show identifies the tragicomic characters of this “Italian” story with the masks of the Commedia dell'Arte: Don Raffaè becomes Pantalone, Pasquale the brigadier embodies a “zannesque” Harlequin. Friday 24 August (21.30pm), “La morsa e cecè” by Pirandello. With Chiara Caroletti, Matteo Cecchi, Ilario Crudetti, Salvatore Iermano, Ilaria Mariotti, Emiliano Pandolfi. Directed by Salvatore Iermano.
“La morsa”, the first Pirandello text ever to be staged, is the cruel story of adultery. “Cecè” is an unusual text for Pirandello, with a humorous plot and an unusual lightness and vivacity. Saturday 25 August (21.30 pm), “Domenico Modugno. Before the Myth”, written and performed by Andrea Martina and Giuseppe Fiorante. Between prose and music, the show tells the story of the great Domenico Modugno who returns to Polignano a Mare, where he grew up, and retraces a journey that begins with his childhood, passes through his first songs in the Salento dialect and arrives at worldwide success. Sunday 26 August (21.30 pm), “Le supplici” from Aeschylus. With Chiara Di Bernardo, Maria Teresa Vargas, Arianna Cristillo, Valentina Martiniello, Giusy Ruggiero, Rossella Scialla, Antonio Granatina, Luca De Rosa directed by Giuliano Casaburi and Antonio Granatina. A choir of women who live and sing about exile, precariousness, hope. A story that has its roots in myth and reaches out to the future, an escape across the sea and the arrival in a dreamed land. Monday 27 August (21.30 pm), “Faccia gialla”, written and directed by Margherita Romeo. With Dario Tucci, Margherita Romeo, Antonella Raimondo, Angela Tamburrino and Giuseppe Fiscariello. The show is divided into scenes, through which the spectator will experience the passage that took place between paganism, of which San Gennaro is a symbol, to early Christianity. It is a theatre of images, of narrative, visionary and documentary. Tuesday 28 August (21.30 pm), “Campanile o campanilismo” by Achille Campanile. With Angelo Perrotta, Melania Pellino, Laura Orabona, Rino Costanzo, Mario Coppeta, Nadia Scafaro directed by Angelo Perotta. The Oscar-winning theater company is not in good shape and goes on stage with the presence in the room of the producer Calamari who should buy their show. During the producer's visit, the waiter causes all sorts of trouble. Wednesday 29 August (21.30 pm), “Yerma (Jetteca)” by Fabio Di Gesto from Federico Garcia Lorca. With Chiara Vitiello directed by Silvio Fornacetti and Fabio Di Gesto. The show won the 2018 REBU' AWARD. It is a rewriting in Neapolitan of “Yerma”, the great tragedy by Federico Garcia Lorca. Yerma is the drama of a sterile woman, told with a powerful, popular and poetic language. Thursday 30 August (21.30 pm), “Anfitrione. The unexpected guest”. Free adaptation from Plautus directed by Lello Serao with Maria Basile, Agostino Chiummariello, Biagio Musella, Sergio DEl Prete and Emanuela Tondini. In this staging, Neapolitan is used as a reference language for the human characters, a fact that does not betray the work, but rather supports its sense and meaning. The show feeds on forms of theater such as Variety, with catchy tunes and allusive songs.
Organized by Teatro dell'Osso and Tram – Teatro Ricerca Arte Musica, in collaboration with ARIES Teatro ed eventi, the artistic direction is by Miko Di Martino and Gianmarco Cesario.
Tickets: full price €13,00 and online €10,00
Subscriptions: 3 shows €27,00 – 7 shows €49,00
Tickets online: www.teatrotram.it
Reservations: 342 1785930 (whatsapp), tram.biglietteria@gmail.com
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