Black, White: Like a Chess Game on the Great Existential Themes will be on stage from January 10 to 12 at the Teatro Tram “Deep Blue. God’s Move”, a free adaptation of the book “Sunset Limited – A Dramatic Novel” by Cormac Mc Carthy. Alberto Mele has redesigned the universe of the American writer, who also directs it with Marco Montecatino. An experiment that began two years ago with their “Teatro Serra” and that from Friday lands at the Tram interpreted by Antonio Buonanno, a well-known face from My Brilliant Friend (where he plays Lila’s father) and Pietro Tammaro.
A bare apartment in a dormitory building near the station. Two men enter the door, apparently calm. One of the two, Bianco, is a professor who has just lived what he believed would be the last act of his life. Nero, the owner of the house, appears at ease after entering the professor's life in such an absurd and at the same time logical way, like a pawn challenging the King on the chessboard. Nero, in this free adaptation, has Neapolitan origins and language, volcanic thoughts and ways, attitudes born from the most Mediterranean south that exists. Bianco and Nero are sitting at a table, they observe each other, perhaps they study each other. Let the game begin...
“We started working on the staging of DEEP BLUE – explain the directors Alberto Mele and Marco Montecatino – giving ourselves two fundamental tasks: during the entire direction, avoid siding with one of the two characters; allow Antonio Buonanno and Pietro Tammaro to enter the roles – Black and White respectively – in the most invasive way possible. We tried to convey to two very good actors the truth that the two characters were incredibly close to their real way of being and play with this commonality, avoiding any kind of restraint. Deep Blue is the first directorial work of M&M (Alberto Mele and Marco Montecatino) and it helped us to make clear the desire we have to deal with the stories from an increasingly concrete, increasingly carnal and material point of view. 'Deep Blue – The Move of God' is a boxing match without blood between two men who have already been knocked out. It is an absurd battle whose outcome is predetermined by choices made decades before. A McCarthyian manifesto to which we have instilled Neapolitan atmospheres that lent themselves perfectly to building the prosaic, disreputable universe in which the story comes to life in a violently apodictic manner. BLACK and WHITE, two men in the most absurd moment of their lives”.
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