The Teatro Elicantropo in Naples will host the world premiere of the show Musica, Maestro! by Manlio Santanelli on Thursday 16 January 2020 at 21.00:19 pm (repeats until Sunday XNUMX), an unpublished text by the Neapolitan playwright written for Roberto Azzurro, who is the interpreter and director of the production. After years of "frequenting" the theater and the narrative of Manlio Santanelli, Roberto Azzurro tackles a new text by the playwright, who delves, as always, into the mechanisms that have always characterized his dramaturgy. This time the "temporal factor" is more decisive than all the other times. The language really seems like a reckless verbal carousel, and, at the same time, reassuring, even using a form and vocabulary that are not exactly usual, reproducing all these verbal hyperboles in a surreal, but always real, way. The grotesque thus becomes a stylistic figure, both literary and dramaturgical, of the story. With birth, or rather with the fall into time, man is forced to live according to an immutable rhythm. Time, which by definition is an absolute concept, on a personal level can expand or contract depending on the circumstances in which one finds oneself. For this reason, the time spent under the dentist's knife seems much longer than a nice trip to the sea. In this monologue, time goes from the moment in which the conductor hits the baton on the music stand, in order to obtain the concentration of the orchestra, to the moment in which he gives the attack. It is a matter of a few seconds, yet they are enough to contain an entire life.
“Far be it from me – so Roberto Azzurro in a note – to think of any kind of autobiography. Here, however, I cannot help but think that the experience of how much the perception, even real, of time can expand, in certain moments I have actually lived, when I suffered the well-known accident, to the point that, if I decided to tell it, I could fill massive tomes. So many were the thoughts and reflections that galloped at an unbelievable pace in my head in those terrible moments”.
In Musica, Maestro!, presented by Ortensia T, Roberto Azzurro does not attempt in any way to refer to his personal experience. He has never made biography in his theater, except by placing the actor on stage each time, who, right before the eyes of the spectator, transforms into the character.
“And here too – concludes the actor and director – I will be the one to enter the scene as an actor, and then become the character”.
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