Campania Teatro Festival on its thirty-first day of programming. Alla Greca, The Pig Doctor, Waiting for Godot, Waiting for Godot, Told by My Mother, I Am Only a Man.
Thirty-first day of programming for the fifteenth edition of the Campania Teatro Festival, the multidisciplinary festival directed for the sixth consecutive year by Ruggero Cappuccio, created with the strong support of the Campania Region and organized by the Fondazione Campania dei Festival.
For the National Prose section, Alla Greca will be repeated in the Courtyard of the Reggia di Capodimonte at 21:80 p.m. Elio de Capitani will direct Steven Berkoff's text, translated by Carlotta Clerici and Giuseppe Manfridi. On stage, among the performers, De Capitani himself together with Cristina Crippa, Sara Borsarelli and Marco Bonadei in a play in which the myth of Oedipus and the Sophoclean tragedy are reinvented in the form of a parody. Playing the role of Oedipus against the backdrop of the most sordid suburb of London is Eddy, a young proletarian. A cult of the XNUMXs, between blank verse, lyrical excerpts and Rabelaisian profanity, Alla greca is a hilarious text with a transgressive ending, which De Capitani brings to the stage, enhancing its social and political issues. The show is produced by Teatro dell'Elfo and the Fondazione Campania dei Festival.
It is an absolute debut in the National Prose section The Pig Doctor. Probable study for a staging, which will be held in Capodimonte in the Landscape Garden of Porta Miano at 22.30:XNUMX pm.
The text, winner of the 2022 New Sensibilities Award, is by Davide Sacco, also director. Performers on stage Francesco Montanari, Daniele Russo, Marcello Romolo, Amedeo Carlo Capitanelli and Francesco del Gaudio. What happens when a king dies? And not just any king, but the King of England. What happens in those few moments in which the monarchy appears fragile, the people wait and time runs, as if in danger? What happens if the king did not really die of a heart attack, but was assassinated? And what happens if the Crown Prince is just an arrogant and presumptuous boy, completely unprepared for the responsibilities that await him? In this crisis, the only one who seems to have certainties is a veterinarian, the pig doctor, who finds himself by chance in this story and tries to seize an opportunity. The production is by LVF and Teatro Manini di Narni.
Another absolute debut for the National Prose section will be Aspettando Godot, directed by Massimo Andrei, on stage with Lello Arena, Biagio Musella, Elisabetta Romano, Esmeraldo Napodano, Angelo Pepe and Carmine Bassolillo. Produced by the Teatro Cilea of Naples and by La Contrada Teatro Stabile of Trieste, the show will be held at the Teatro Comunale of Caserta at 21 pm. One of the aims of this new staging is to bring the scenic, scenographic and textual action of Beckett's masterpiece back to the most secret and intimate intentions of its author. A Aspettando Godot set in the plot of a city like Naples, on a country road at the foot of Vesuvius, and which aims to investigate once again the tragicomic sense of waiting, its uselessness. This time it will be the wait for a new invader to drive out the old tyrant, but also the wait for the liquefaction of the patron saint's blood, that of the earthquake ready to destroy homes and certainties, that of the eruption of the volcano.
The performance Told by My Mother, on stage at the Teatro Politeama at 21 pm, will make its European premiere in the Dance section. Directed by Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, the show features Chahrour himself, with Hala Omran, Abbas Al-Mawla and Leila Chahrour. Also on stage will be the musical duo Two or the Dragon, Ali Hout and Abed Kobeissy. “Told by My Mother is a dance show built on intimate and heartfelt stories,” says Ali Chahrour. “Stories of iconic mothers and their families, some of whom are missing or have disappeared. We tell their stories so that memory survives. Others remain and live to tell. Their voices come on stage, singing and telling what has been, to save what is left. They dance to survive what remains.” The production is by Ali Chahrour and Chadi Aoun, in co-production with Studio Zoukak, The Arab Arts Focus (with the support of Stiftelsen, Studio Emad Eddin & Ford Foundation, Fondazione Campania dei Festival, Saadallah & Lubna Khalil Foundation, Kunstfest Weimar, Zurich Theater Spektakel, Mahmoud Darwish Chair/Bozar), and with the support of AFAC – Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, French Insitute Beirut, Barzakh Beit El Laffe Mezyan, T-Marbouta Tawlet, Ked and Eid Press.
For the SportOpera section, the show Sono solo un uomo, written and directed by Alessandro Miele, with Rita Felicetti and Alessandro Miele, will be performed at 21 pm in the Praterie del Gigante in Capodimonte. Roberto Baggio and Ulysses, a football legend and a classic hero, meet and merge into a single figure: a tired man at the end of a journey, alone on a provincial pitch, where he can stop to retrace a story. Prompted by another figure, the man begins a story – between memory and dream – in which he faces storms, injuries, benches, until he reaches the pinnacle of success without ever giving in to the song of the sirens. The production is by Ultimi Fuochi Teatro.
For the Special Projects section, last day for #Foodistribution in Between Spaces, at Bipiani in the Ponticelli neighborhood (Via Isidoro Fuortes, Naples) at 21 pm. The project is by Manovalanza in collaboration with Daniele Ciprì and will see the participation of the actress Sara Missaglia and the locals. This new chapter of #Foodistribution, which this year too has focused on the eastern outskirts of Naples, is conceived by Davide Scognamiglio and directed by Adriana Follieri. A residential project of artistic and scientific research (the scientific referent is Professor Rosario Sommella) that connects the analysis of the gentrification process of small and large urban communities with lighting technology and light design, photography and theater. In Between Spaces focuses on those very small territories that, not having a specific intended use, become a concrete expression of the communities that inhabit them, often surprising the most sophisticated planning projects.
Also in the Special Projects section, Semi in air: I am a border. 3 days of performative investigation into the body as a frontier, a workshop curated by Loredana Putignani, in the Sala Assoli from 11 am to 19 pm. “I am a border – says Putignani – is a process that investigates the thresholds between cultures and multiple creative languages on a global platform, for a cultural resistance beyond borders. A spatial/performative dimension, which redefines some paths opened by the masters of the Avant-garde of the second half of the 900th century between theatre, visual arts and performance. An excavation, in the extractions of the elements of pure performance from Beckett to Kantor, from the Frontier Laboratories of Neiwiller and Leo de Berardinis, to Eurasia by Joseph Beuys, from the paths of Hirayama to the Abramovic Method”.
As part of the daytime activities, Bambine ribelli is the new meeting in the series of events dedicated to the little ones and produced by Il Teatro nel Baule. The event will take place at the Teatrino del Belvedere/Pagliarone at 10 am (for girls aged 6 to 13). The direction is by Sebastiano Coticelli and Simona Di Maio and will feature Carla Guardascione and Ludovica Sodo. Once upon a time, somewhere in the world, there was a rebellious little girl. She was in Cambodia and her name was Loung. She was in the United States and her name was Wilma. In Italy her name was Margherita, in Syria Yusdra, in Cuba Alicia… She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, she wanted to reach the Olympic swimming games, she could run faster than a gazelle, she loved looking at the stars, she wanted a world of peace… And when dreams come true they change the world. Stories of rebellious little girls who became extraordinary women.
The guided walking tours continue, leading visitors to discover the avenues and historic buildings of the Royal Wood of Capodimonte. The meeting point is at the Belvedere (Porta Grande) at 10 am, for a maximum of 20 participants.
Thanks to the sponsors of the 2022 edition of the Campania Teatro Festival: AmiCar, Antonino De Simone, Aulentissima, Enel, Frecciarossa, Le Zirre Napoli, M.Car, Unicredit.
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