"La Luna," conceived and directed by Davide Iodice, will debut in Naples (Palazzo Fondi) on Tuesday, September 24th. The show opens the new season of the Teatri Associati di Napoli, directed by Hilenia De Falco and Lello Serao, following a preview at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia. "La Luna" is the third installment in a research project on the contemporary crisis, begun by Iodice with the production of "La Fabbrica dei Sogni" (The Dream Factory) and continued with "Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo" (One Day All This Will Be Yours). "After the dream and spiritual legacy explored in previous works," he emphasizes, "the subject of investigation is now the discard, the refusal, in its symbolic, affective, emotional, and poetic sense. That which we want to free ourselves from, or that which we have 'put aside,' and, to broaden the meaning, the acted and endured refusal." In the two years leading up to the production, the Neapolitan director invited people to bring to the various theater workshops what they wanted to get rid of, and the results were astonishing. Through the firsthand accounts of many people, documented in video and voice, as well as through the most diverse objects collected and handed over to the director and his team, the material was worked on, sparking a reflection on the theme, which then materialized in an original dramaturgy. "Over 200 items," explains Davide Iodice, "have been collected. There's a death notification, messages left before an irreversible farewell, reports of lifelong, unconfessed abuse, clothes for a father's funeral, and those from a broken marriage. Someone gave me the mask they use at home while living in the Land of Fires, or a knife stolen from a ten-year-old by a former street kid who has turned his life around. And then: wilted roses from violent love affairs, keys to locked rooms where something painful happened and was never returned to, a cage left empty by a bird that ripped open its chest trying to escape, a stuffed monkey used in therapy. And so many, so many psychotropic drugs." A journey into the awareness of pain and its rejection, entrusted to the theatrical sign and significant gestures of eight actors performing on a stage designed by Tiziano Fario, with costumes by Daniela Salernitano, and lighting and sound by Antonio Minichini. The show is produced by Teatri Associati di Napoli, with the support of the Campania dei Festival Foundation, in collaboration with the Scuola Elementare del Teatro (the popular conservatory for the performing arts conceived and directed by Davide Iodice) and the Naples First Reception Center.
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