Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione Galleria Toledo online for the Christmas holidays. Three original productions available for free on the site www.galleriatoledo.info
The Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione Galleria Toledo goes online for the Christmas holidays. From December 24, 2020, a film and two shows will be available free of charge on the website www.galleriatoledo.info: three original productions directed and written by Laura Angiulli, artistic director of the theater, based on William Shakespeare, with sets by Rosario Squillace and lighting by Cesare Accetta. The first public screening of “The King Dies,” online from December 24 to 28, the only Italian film in the Feature Film Competition at the 66th edition of the Taormina Film Fest last July, will open the digital schedule, which will include “Richard III, Invitation to Court,” online from December 29 to January 1, and “Twelfth Night,” online from January 2 to 6.
“The King Dies”, filmed in Naples in 2019 with the contribution of the Campania Region, is the transposition of William Shakespeare's drama “Richard II”, set at the end of the XNUMXth century, on the deposition and tragic death of Richard II of York, King of England, at the hands of his cousin Bolingbroke of Lancaster, the future Henry IV. “The King Dies” was born from active research in the interlinguistic field, stretching between theatrical staging and translation into cinematographic language, with careful translation work, critical insights and immersion in the context of Shakespeare's material. The cast includes Luciano Dall'Aglio (Richard II), Gennaro Maresca (Bolingbroke of Lancaster), Alessandra D'Elia, Stefano Jotti, Maria Roveran, Michele Danubio, Lello Serao, Paolo Aguzzi, Antonio Speranza, Monica Demuru, Filippo Scotti and the participation of Paolo Graziosi and Enzo Decaro. The editing is by Alessio Doglione, the original music by Pasquale Barbaro and the costumes by Grazia Colombini.
With this film version, the pages of the original play find a new and evocative setting in the architecture of ancient and prestigious monuments of Naples and its surroundings: Castel Sant'Elmo, Capodimonte, Real Sito di Carditello, Castel Capuano, Donnaregina Diocesan Museum, Teatro di San Carlo, Succorpo dell'Annunziata, Teatro Tempio di Pietravairano, Church of San Giuseppe delle Scalze, District Notarial Archives of Naples and the Ex Military Hospital.
“Richard III, Invitation to Court” is a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s five-act drama “Richard III,” the last of four plays in the Bard’s minor tetralogy on English history, which narrates the historical events that ended in 1485, when the Plantagenets’ power in England was replaced by the Tudor dynasty, and the defeat of the evil King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The show features actors Giovanni Battaglia, Alessandra D’Elia, and Stefano Jotti.
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“A work that overflows with passion and pain”, as stated by Laura Angiulli in the director's notes, which stages the vanity of a sovereign in conflict with nature due to his physical deformity, an evident trace of a deep internal distortion, prone to violence and crime. With him, the character of Buckingham, devoted to an unprejudiced vision of the common good and the solidity of the State, engaged in speculations and actions around concepts such as that of the maintenance of power, borrowed from the most modern political doctrines of the time, the same ones that take shape in De principatibus by Niccolò Machiavelli. The female characters are also present and incisive, victims of a story that concretizes its making in the assassination, fascinated by royalty and attracted into their own plots, in which they put themselves and their own destiny at stake.
The show “Una dodicesima notte”, with Paolo Aguzzi, Agostino Chiummariello, Michele Danubio, Alessandra D'Elia, Luciano Dell'Aglio, Michele Maccagno, Gennaro Maresca, Vittorio Passaro, Caterina Pontrandolfo, is based on “La dodicesima notte, o quel che volete”, a comedy in five acts written in prosimeter, set in a fantastic Illyria without borders or time. The entire narrative structure, articulated and with sustained rhythms, is crossed by the topic of love, managed through relationships of oppositions, contrasts, mirrorings and unpredictable solutions. Fundamental, in the text, is the characterization of the characters, defined by the director as “finely carved, always credible, indeed bearers of a necessary truth in being; and at the same time full of theatrical potential”.
Article published on 21 December 2020 - 12:25
