One step at a time: we have learned that to move forward you need to be patient. And so, the 2021/22 Season of the TRAM Theater in via Port'Alba in Naples will be presented in "steps", one step at a time, waiting for the confusing situation we are living in to clarify. But this does not mean that we will not have news: the first two months of the new TRAM season will be full of original proposals. The show times have been slightly brought forward (Thursday at 18 pm and 21 pm; Friday at 20 pm; Saturday at 19 pm; Sunday at 18 pm) to meet the new rhythms experienced in the last 18 months.
It starts on October 14, 2021 with the new production of the Teatro dell'Osso: “Operette morali” by Giacomo Leopardi directed by Mirko Di Martino. The actors Antonio D'Avino and Nello Provenzano will play the numerous characters of Leopardi's masterpiece, between satire and philosophy, between irony and bitterness. The show, produced in collaboration with Il Demiurgo, is a lucid and merciless reflection on the world, on history, on the human race, made even more relevant by the pandemic we are facing. “Operette morali” will remain on stage until October 31.
Later, from November 4th to 7th, the contemporary dramaturgy of Roberto del Gaudio will take to the stage of the TRAM, presenting “Le signore”: Del Gaudio’s surreal comedy will be the occasion to offer a glimpse into that female world that still depends on the male counterpart, despite a blatant display of emancipation. The direction is by Ludovica Rambelli and Victoria De Campora, on stage there will be Margherita Romeo and Sarah Paone.
From November 11th to 14th, “L'Arte della famiglia” will debut at TRAM, or the figure of Luisa De Filippo told through the female characters of Eduardo. Text and direction by Silvio Fornacetti, with Angela Bertamino and Daniela Quaranta, in the theater the spectators will go through the two souls of the woman and mother hidden behind the scenes of a great family of art. From “De Pretore Vincenzo” passing through “Filumena Marturano” and “La paura numero uno” ending up at “l'Arte della Commedia”, the images are taken from the words of Peppino in his book “Una famiglia difficile”.
From November 18 to 21 it will be the turn of a highly anticipated show: “Figlie di Cagna” directed by Enrico Basile. The show won “L'Italia dei Visionari”, the national project that unites twenty theaters and festivals of the peninsula promoted by Kilowatt Festival. The group of visionary spectators of the TRAM, from January to May 2020, viewed and evaluated online over 200 shows among which, at the end of the selections, “Figlie di Cagna” was the winner. The text is taken from Agota Kristof, on stage there are the two very young, and already very successful in cinema and on TV, Mariasole Di Maio and Greta Domenica Esposito. It is the story of two girls who, abandoned by their family to the custody of their grandmother, face pain, abandonment, hunger and anguish.
The first step of the TRAM will close on November 25 with “A lo stesso punto” presented by the Teatro 99 posti of Avellino: Paolo Capozzo and Maurizio Picariello (with Vito Scalia) will play two “zuorri”, two characters from popular theater, who wake up inside a theater closed due to the pandemic. The only way left for them to survive is to play, in their own way, the characters of contemporary theater. The text is by Paolo Capozzo, the direction is by Gianni Di Nardo.
“These last two years have changed many things,” says artistic director Mirko Di Martino. “There have been so many difficulties, but they have pushed us to rethink our way of doing theater, of being entertainment workers, of welcoming spectators and creating community. The pandemic has hit us hard, but TRAM has always been a place of experimentation and innovation: it was natural, therefore, to look for alternative solutions. Despite the reduction in the number of seats and the ongoing state of uncertainty, we were pushed to reopen by the affection of the many people who frequent our hall and thanks to the commitment of the many workers who inhabit our theater. And now here we are, ready to start again, one step at a time.”
The TRAM theater will reopen respecting the anti-covid rules, therefore limiting the number of seats and allowing access only to spectators with a green pass. From October 4th, theater workshops for young people, adults and children will also start again.
THE PROGRAM
from 14 to 31 October 2021
MORAL OPERETTE
by Giacomo Leopardi
text and direction by Mirko Di Martino
with Antonio D'Avino and Nello Provenzano
scenes by Giorgia Lauro
assistant director Angela Rosa D'Auria
production Teatro dell'Osso and Il Demiurgo
in collaboration with Teatro TRAM
The show brings to the stage the “Operette morali” by Giacomo Leopardi, one of the highest peaks of universal literature. The original text is composed of 24 prose, mostly dialogues, ten of which will be on stage. The desire for happiness, pain, death, the relationship of man with other men and with the universe: only two actors play all the characters, two figures of men who have arrived at the end of time, when everything is consumed, when illusions have disappeared and there is no more room for action. Watching them one after the other, these operettas, seems like watching a dystopian anthology series, a Black Mirror of the nineteenth century.
from 4 to 7 November 2021
THE LADIES
dramaturgy by Roberto Del Gaudio
directed by Ludovica Rambelli and Victoria De Campora
with Margherita Romeo and Sarah Paone
A bar, many customers, no bartender. Two women recognize each other, pretend not to see each other, scrutinize each other and then greet each other. They are Ester Mattone, a journalist and film and TV critic, and Dorella De Sebo, a university assistant in moral philosophy. They begin their engaged conversation, with absurd and hilarious tones. They are both waiting for Giovanni, a young and handsome bartender who will never show up. They wait for him like abandoned lovers wait for the return of Don Giovanni but also perhaps like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot. And in this wait a chilling glimpse opens up into a female world dependent on its male counterpart, in perpetual waiting (despite a brazen display of independence and emancipation).
from 11th to 14th NOVEMBER 2021
THE ART OF FAMILY
Luisa de Filippo, love behind the scenes
dramaturgy and direction by Silvio Fornacetti
with Angela Bertamino and Daniela Quaranta
assistant director Diego Sommaripa
props Gennaro Olivieri
Post Theatre and Resistance Theatre production
Luisa De Filippo a woman of love. A woman who will live her whole life fighting with the theater. A theater that first possesses her great love Eduardo and then will also take possession of her children. On stage the two souls of Luisa: the sensitive and passionate woman, the courageous mother for the time in which she lived. A story of a part of the life of Luisa De Filippo where the boundaries between fiction and reality blur in the biography. The dramatic references that speak of women, of mothers in the works of Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo have inspired us to imagine what the mother could be like.
from 18th to 21st NOVEMBER 2021
BITCH'S DAUGHTERS
winning show of the “L'Italia dei Visionari” 2021 competition
by Agota Kristof
directed by Enrico Basile
with Mariasole Di Maio and Greta Domenica Esposito
Daughters of Bitches, adapted from the “Big Notebook” of the “Trilogy of the city of K” by Agota Kristof, is the story of two girls abandoned by their family to the custody of their grandmother, a selfish and cruel woman. They face pain, abandonment, hunger and anguish learning to anesthetize themselves to dramas. Gifted with great intelligence and a spirit of survival, the two spend much of their youth dehumanizing themselves and learning to live with a monstrous reality. Everything that happens to them ends up in the Big Notebook, a place of memory and remembrance, a world with its own rules but, at the same time, the only space in which they continue to remain human.
from 25th to 28st NOVEMBER 2021
AT THE SAME POINT (BUT IN A DIFFERENT PART)
by Paolo Capozzo
directed by Gianni DiNardo
with Paolo Capozzo, Maurizio Picariello, Vito Scalia
production Co.CIS – 99 Seats THEATRE
Prisco and Mostino are two zuorri from some old theater script that we have lost track of. The two wake up in an empty, abandoned theater and discover that they have been forgotten. The theater has been closed (due to the pandemic) and they are left there, like ghosts in a cemetery. All the jokes they know sound empty, they are old, they no longer amuse them. But, just when it seems that they are about to surrender to their fate, they find an old dusty folder that holds some theater texts unknown to them. Finally Prisco and Mostino have new lines to say: the journey begins inside their new existences that move from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Beckett's Waiting for Godot to De Filippo's Christmas at the Cupiello's.
Tickets: full €13,00 | reduced €10,00 (under 26 and over 65) | Card 3 shows of your choice: €27
Show times:
Thursday 21.00pm and 18.00pm
Friday 20.00pm
Saturday 19.00 hours
Sunday 18.00 hours
Info and reservations
cell. 342 1785 930 | tel. 081 1875 2126 |tram.biglietteria@gmail.com
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