The Teatro Nuovo of Naples presents the 2019/2020 theatre season, including theatre programming, contemporary dance, tango, stand up comedy and musical events

Browsing the Italian dictionary, the word cura means something that is expressed in a precise action, pursuing, with assiduity, a commitment in practicing an activity, or, again, having a caring attitude towards someone or something. And La Cura will be the guiding thread of the 2019/2020 theatre season of the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, rich and varied in the proposals on the programme, which, from next October until April 2020, will animate the Neapolitan stage, respecting its natural and consolidated vocation for contemporary dramaturgy. An intense program that, in addition to the nine shows in fixed subscription, five optional, a prologue, the Christmas show and the Stories and Memories section, will host a double focus on contemporary dance with the reviews Monday Dance 2019, Quelli che la Danza 2020, a new appointment with La Poetica del Tango, the third edition of the Stand Up Comedy review, the fourth of Il Nuovo suona giovane and the review dedicated to high schools La Rete dell'Immaginario, which will complete the entire program. “La Cura – underline Francesco Somma and Alfredo Balsamo, respectively president and director of the Teatro Pubblico Campano – is not only a singular slogan to capture the attention of the spectator, but intends to be the invitation, users and proposers together, to all the actions underlying it, towards the suggestive and evocative power of the theater. In the spirit of this belief, this year too, as in previous years, we will do with renewed and greater intensity, to repay the trust placed in us by our public, intensifying our attention towards them and trying to increasingly satisfy their requests”. There will be two subscription formulas available for the 2019/2020 season (for regulars and newcomers), for eleven or fourteen shows, made up of the nine fixed shows plus two or five to choose from among the optional ones, to which will be added, this year, the under 20 card for four shows (two fixed and two to choose from). Further discounts are planned for the shows scheduled throughout the season and for the two events presented in collaboration with the Sala Assoli. The faces of important artists of the theatrical scene, including Renato Carpentieri, Andrea Renzi, Tony Laudadio, Marco Baliani, Giuseppe Battiston, Marco Paolini, Isa Danieli, Gabriele Lavia, Carlo Cecchi, Mimmo Borrelli, Enzo Vetrano, Stefano Randisi, Patrizio Oliva, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Ginestra Paladino, Teresa Saponangelo, 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 Francesco Saponaro, Carlo Cecchi, Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi, Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, Fabio Rocco Oliva, Pino Carbone, Laura Angiulli, Gabriele Lavia, Michele De Vita Conti, Antonio Zavatteri, Mimmo Borrelli, Maria Maglietta, who will bring to the stage texts by authors ranging, among others, from Sàndor Màrai to Sam Holcroft, from Jacques Prévert to Shakespeare, from Eduardo De Filippo to Mimmo Borrelli, from Francesco Niccolini to Marco Baliani. The theatre season will kick off on Thursday 10 October 2019 (on stage until the 13th), with the prologue entrusted to director Pino Carbone, who will bring to the stage Assedio, a rewriting of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and materials collected on the siege of Sarajevo, with Anna Carla Broegg, Giandomenico Cupaiuolo, Francesca De Nicolais, Renato De Simone, Rita Russo. The show, produced by Teatri Uniti, will be presented in Naples after its debut in July 2019 at the Venice Theatre Biennale, and is the first of two projects shared with the Sala Assoli, which will host two other works by the director in the same period. On Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October, Borderline/Asmed present Mittelmeer, a production featuring choreography by Susanne Linke, one of the mothers of German neo-expressionism. Renato Carpentieri and Stefano Jotti will be on stage, from 23 to 27 October, in Le braci from the opera by Sándor Márai and the adaptation by Fulvio Calise, directed by Laura Angiulli, presented by Teatro Coop. Productions/Galleria Toledo of the work of Sándor Márai The passage of time marked by the First World War is the temporal place in which the author places the retrospective nucleus of the novel, a text linked by a red thread to the great novelistic tradition, which together looks at the crisis of the great myths of Western society and the transition to a “new world”. From November 6 to 10, Teresa Saponangelo, Eva Cambiale, Andrea Renzi, Angela Fontana, Lucienne Perreca, Tony Laudadio in Time is Poison by Tony Laudadio, directed by Francesco Saponaro, presented by Teatri Uniti and Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia. A bitter and melancholic comedy in which three ages of life and three different moments in time chase and intertwine, sometimes overlapping, in a single and symbolic space: the large living room of a Neapolitan apartment overlooking the sea. From November 14 to 17, Giuseppe Battiston, in Orson Welles' Roast, paints his portrait of the brilliant Orson Welles, imagining what a brief encounter with him would be like if he could, just for an hour, come back to be with us. The dramaturgy is by Michele De Vita Conti and Giuseppe Battiston, directed by Michele De Vita Conti. Thursday, November 21st, the Stories and Memories section kicks off with Ezio Mauro in Berlin Chronicles of the Wall, the events that have marked history, presented by Elastica Anniversari. From November 29th to December 1st, Artèteca and Laprimamericana present Patrizio Oliva in Patrizio vs Oliva by Fabio Rocco Oliva, with Rossella Pugliese, directed by Alfonso Postiglione. Ananke was defined by Homer as the “need to fight”. Patrizio Oliva was one of the greatest boxers in Italian boxing. Scrolling through his life, it is clear that some Ananke followed him closely, and his sporting efforts remind us of the deeds of a demigod. Thursday 5 December will be the turn of the second appointment of Storie Memorie with Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi in Quando la vita ti viene a visite, a dialogue between Lucretius and Seneca by Ivano Dionigi, presented by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Compagnia Vetrano/Randisi. Elisa Di Eusanio, Alessia Giuliani, Alberto Giusta, Davide Lorino, Orietta Notari, Aldo Ottobrino are the protagonists of Le regole per vivere by Sam Holcroft translated by Fausto Paravidino, directed by Antonio Zavatteri, on stage from 11 to 15 December and presented by Gli Ipocriti Melina Balsamo and Teatro Stabile di Verona in collaboration with Teatro Ambra Jovinelli. A fun comedy that takes its cue from a psychoanalytic reflection, or rather from an experiment that aims to answer a question: what would happen if the principles of cognitive-behavioral theory were applied to a Christmas lunch of a typical family? From 26 to 29 December the Neapolitan stage will host one of the greatest actresses of our time, Isa Danieli, in Raccontami, un percorso di donna, which has crossed and crosses the most diverse genres: the sceneggiata, the Greek tragedy, the words of contemporary authors. From Lina Wertmuller to Ugo Chiti, from Annibale Ruccello to Enzo Moscato, from Letizia Russo to Antonio Tarantino, up to Ruggero Cappuccio. Words blown to the heart of those who listen, so that they bounce in an echo that is never resigned and silent. Kicking off the new year's programming, from January 10 to 12, will be Mimmo Borrelli, author, performer and director of Malacrescita, based on La Madre: 'i figlie so' piezze 'i sfaccimma. Borrelli tells the story of Maria Sibilla Ascione in his popular and literary language. Daughter of a Camorrista and a Camorrista in love, she is a contemporary Medea. Intoxicated by the fumes of the land of fires, she seeks revenge against a Jason who answers to the name of Francesco Schiavone “Santokanne”. Presented by the Sciaveca Cultural Association, the show is the second project in the program shared with the Sala Assoli, which will host Napucalisse by Mimmo Borrelli. Again in January, from 22nd to 26th, Enzo Vetrano, Stefano Randisi and Giovanni Moschella in Riccardo 3 L'appello by Francesco Niccolini, freely inspired by Richard III by William Shakespeare and the crimes of Jean-Claude Romand, directed by Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi. Presented by Arca Azzurra Produzioni, ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
in collaboration with Le tre corde/Compagnia Vetrano Randisi, the text reinterprets in a contemporary key a great classic by Shakespeare, today a recluse and indomitable demon, who is here removed from the English Middle Ages and becomes an inhabitant of the present, giving life to a staging that will not be a pure variation on the theme, but something "less reassuring". From 19 to 23 February, Ginestra Paladino in Portrait of Dora M. a project curated by Ferdinando Bruni and Francesco Frongia, with the words of Fabrizio Sinisi and the direction of Francesco Frongia, presented by Teatro Filodrammatici of Milan. Dora Maar (1907-1997) was the muse of the surrealists in the artistic and cultural Paris of the time, until her meeting and relationship with Pablo Picasso, which will bring her to the brink of madness. Also in February, a double appointment with Marco Baliani who will propose, on Thursday 27 February in the section Stories and Memories, the show Kholhaas from the story Michele Kholhaas by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Maria Maglietta, presented by Casa degli Alfieri/Trickster Teatro. From 28 February to 1 March Marco Baliani in Una notte sbagliata, directed by Maria Maglietta, presented by Marche Teatro. How does the Absurd present itself? Are there signs that can raise the alarm before the terribleness of the case manifests itself? A narration where the oral language of the story is no longer able to unfold in a linear progression, but shatters, produces verbal loops in which Time oscillates, without obligatory temporal connections. From 4 to 8 March Gabriele Lavia brings to the stage I ragazzi che si innamora by Jacques Prévert, presented by Fondazione Teatro della Toscana. On Prévert's poetry Gabriele Lavia builds an intense recital on the strength and power of the feeling of love. From March 11 to 15 Carlo Cecchi, Angelica Ippolito in Dolore sotto chiave – Sik Sik l'artefice magico, a diptych directed by Carlo Cecchi that brings together two one-act plays by Eduardo De Filippo, presented by Marche Teatro and ElleDieffe. Lorenzo Gleijeses will be on stage, from April 2 to 5, in Una giornata Qualunque del danzatore Gregorio Samsa, directed and written by Eugenio Barba, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Julia Varley, presented by Gitiesse Artisti Riuniti. The story of Gregorio Samsa, an imaginary dancer, namesake of the protagonist of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, will be on stage. On the occasion of the show and as part of a larger project shared with the Madre Museum, the Teatro Pubblico Campano will promote a workshop curated by Eugenio Barba. The theater season will close, from April 16 to 19, with the show Filo Filò. New stage of the spoken theater of Marco Paolini, who inspired by the filò, traditional evening vigils where the elderly gathered to tell unique and precious stories, tries to reflect out loud on how the life of all of us is changing, thanks or because of technologies, which derive from innovations and which we use daily. The artistic proposal of the Teatro Nuovo di Napoli will extend, also next season, the gaze on contemporary dance, proposing, in addition to Quelli che la Danza 2020, the third edition of the Monday Dance review - I lunedì della danza, a journey through the most interesting choreographic expressions of Campania, together with a new appointment with La Poetica del Tango, curated by Adriano Mauriello. The most irreverent comedians will be the protagonists of the third edition of the Stand Up Comedy review, presented by Teatro Pubblico Campano in collaboration with Altra Scena. Music will still be the protagonist of the next season with the fourth edition of the Il Nuovo Suona Giovane review, to give body and evidence to various musical languages ​​of our time. There will also be La Rete dell'Immaginario, the nineteenth edition of the theatre festival for high schools, scheduled throughout the season.