Wednesday 12th June at NTFI: the story of a day

The busy schedule of events at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, directed for the third year by Ruggero Cappuccio, continues. Wednesday, June 12, it starts with the open rehearsal of Erodiade, a text by Giovanni Testori, brought to the stage by Carlo Cerciello, and interpreted by Imma Villa. For this show — already sold out for some time — the company opens its doors early (June 12 and 13 at 19 pm) on the debut scheduled for June 14 at 21 pm (repeat Saturday, June 15 at 19 pm and Sunday 16 at 21 pm). Also starting is the first appointment of Sportopera, the review curated by Claudio Di Palma and organized by Vesuvioteatro, which tells the passion of great writers for the theme of agòne. For the second year, the review is hosted at the Teatro Sannazaro, where it will continue until June 20. It starts at 20 pm with Sportime, the exhibition by Gianluca Cabone who has created an artistic research on the inseparable binomial time-sport (open until June 20 from 20 pm, except on the 17th). Following, at 21 pm there is the debut of Fisica/Mente, the new theatrical work directed by Luciano Melchionna, who is also the author together with Betta Cianchini, starring Maria Bolignano. 
At 21 pm, at the Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale, it will be the turn of Tre Rotture by the French Rémi De Vos, translated and directed by Angelo Savelli, with Monica Bauco and Riccardo Naldini on stage. 
The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia also arrives in the region: at 21 pm, appointment at the Duomo of Salerno with 66/67, a concert by Alessio Boni and Omar Pedrini, accompanied by Stefano Malchiodi (drums), Larry Mancini (bass), Carlo Poddighe (keyboards), who bring on stage the texts written by Boni himself and Nina Verdelli.
Repeat at 21 pm at the Teatro Nuovo Il Tempo verticale, a show written by Francesco Ferrara, which sees the students of the Bellini Teatro Factory on stage, directed by Gabriele Russo. The Romantic Garden of Palazzo Reale for the Dopofestival, at 22.30:12 pm, will be animated by the concert by Hafid Moussaoui. Erodiade by Giovanni Testori, a text staged by Carlo Cerciello and performed by Imma Villa, will start early, with two open rehearsals on 13 and 19 June at 14 pm, before the official debut scheduled for Friday 21 June at 15 pm (repeats on 19 June at 16 pm and on 21 at XNUMX pm). 
After the numerous and positive feedback from critics and the public, Cerciello continues his journey dedicated to contemporary drama and tackles for the first time Giovanni Testori, a poet and writer among the most authoritative Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, who in this 1968 monologue is inspired by Oscar Wilde's Salome. Immersed in a sort of delirium, Herodias recalls the event that, at the origin of an unbearable inner torment, almost led her to madness: her frustrated passion for the Baptist, the idea of ​​making her daughter Salome dance for Herod and having her demand the saint's head in exchange, the repentance and finally the wait for an answer that will show her a path to salvation. The interpreter will be Imma Villa, an actress of solid ability, who will have the task of declining all the complex nuances of Testori's poetic language and returning on stage the dreamlike images that it suggests. The show uses the sets of Roberto Crea, the costumes of Daniela Ciancio; while the original music is by Paolo Coletta, the lighting design by Cesare Accetta and the sound design by Emil Cottino and Eros Dalla Barba. At 20 pm Sportopera starts at the Teatro Sannazaro, which on the first day of events (on stage until June 20) proposes the exhibition by Gianluca Carbone, SporTime, dedicated to the delicate relationship between time and sport: «SportTime — explains the artist — it can be considered the physical continuation, the extension of works from a previous exhibition of mine (cycle of works) The Time, as an inseparable pairing of time and sport; in The Time my attention on time was more general and extended to more subjects and situations related to time, in SporTime, instead, the research and attention are focused exclusively on sport and on some specific protagonists, such as, for example, the portrait of Usain Bolt, an athlete exasperatedly tied to time, and on the imagery, mine, of sport and its aesthetics». The installation can be visited until June 20th starting at 20 pm (except June 17th). At 21 pm the show continues with the world premiere of Fisica/Mente, a show directed by Luciano Melchionna, also author of the text with Betta Cianchini, performed by Maria Bolignano. The theatrical work focuses on the theme of nature's error, the one that condemns individuals to impairment, handicap, disability and the possibilities of flying beyond that are generated by this condition. About her show, Melchionna says: «A champion. A bolt from the blue. A “differently normal” nephew… lucky? Both lucky, aunt and nephew? Lucky for sure is whoever meets them on the path. Absence has a weight that can make you sink or fly». The theatrical work includes an installation by Michele Iodice on stage; the costumes are by Milla and the music by Riccardo Regoli; the production is by Ente Teatro Cronaca Vesuvioteatro. For the Italian section, at the Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale at 21 pm, Tre rotture by Rémi De Vos will be performed, one of the most interesting authors of the new European dramaturgy, performed in fifteen nations but never yet translated in Italy. The text translated and directed by Angelo Savelli, is interpreted by Monica Bauco and Riccardo Naldini. De Vos's works are highly appreciated for the original and caustic way in which they address thorny issues such as work, racial integration and homophobia. The Pupi e Fresedde Production Centre – Teatro di Rifredi has already translated and staged, in 2017, with great success, Alpenstock, a shocking and grotesque text on racism and xenophobia. 
Three breakups, three paintings, three couples. She prepares him a delicious dinner before leaving him because she can't stand his dog anymore. But he can't stand the dinner and he doesn't want to give up having the last word. He has met a fireman and wants to share his "burning" desire with her. She just can't accept this but has to deal with the unstoppable flames of passion. They have a "complicated" child and try to share the management of it. But the little dictator will ruin their relationship. Three breakups is a classic triangle from a bourgeois farce - him, her and the other - but declined in a paradoxical and grotesque way. The events of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia also arrive in the region. At 21 pm at the Duomo of Salerno there is the concert 66/67 by Alessio Boni and Omar Pedrini, who will bring on stage the texts of Boni himself and Nina Verdelli, with Stefano Malchiodi (drums), Larry Mancini (bass), Carlo Poddighe (keyboards). The musical project was born from the artistic union between Alessio Boni and Omar Pedrini and is a succession on stage of music, visuals, acting and singing that will involve the audience with the aim of transmitting the poetry of the texts, then made into songs thanks to the music. Powerful and emotional songs from the history of music, read and sung in English, which from the 60s to today have composed the soundtrack of the lives of many. Closing the evening of events at the Giardino Romantico of Palazzo Reale, at 22.30:XNUMX p.m., the Dopofestival concert by Hafid Moussaoui, an artist born into a family of musicians from Bechar, a city in the Algerian desert, considered one of the best virtuosos of the oud, the Arab lute, the noblest instrument of musical art built in obedience to mathematical and cosmological principles. Accompanying him will be the percussionist Francesco Manna, a passionate scholar of Middle Eastern traditions.