The 2022/2023 season marks the fourteenth year of activity with 31 shows, 6 training courses, more than 60 artists on stage between prose, children's theater, dance, music. The Caserta hall is the only one with less than 100 seats recognized by the Ministry of Culture as a theater programming body and, starting from 2022, a member of the ATS "Creare Campania", a residence center of the Campania Region.
The season begins with a look at contemporary theater, what's currently touring, and what's receiving awards in Italy. We'll host companies that have never performed at TC14, but there will also be companies we've been following for a few years who will present new works. The choice aims to highlight local and young artists, from Caserta and throughout Campania. explains Roberto Solofria, one of the five partners of Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14, together with Ilaria Delli Paoli, Rosario Lerro, Luigi Imperato and Antonio Buonocore.
Space for names such as Gli Omini, Fabrizio Falco, Valerio Malorni, Peppe Romano, Leonardo Losavio and Roberto Galano; for young artists, such as Vulìe Teatro, Murìcena Teatro, Le Scimmie, Fulvio Sacco&Napoleone Zavatto; for eagerly awaited returns, including Roberto Latini, Massimiliano Civica, Biancofango, Oscar De Summa, and for partnerships that are renewed again this year, such as those with the Nuovo Teatro Sanità and with Baracca dei Buffoni. Also on the bill are four productions by Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14: Veleno – Bloody pianos, razor blades and other messes; Costellazioni; Il libraio straniero and Antuono ei doni dell'ogre.
SEASON
It starts the first weekend of October (1-2/10) with Massimiliano Civica, who returns to Civico 14 with Scampoli, in which he traces the portrait of some of the protagonists of the world of theater and cinema, from Robert Mitchum to Andrea Camilleri. Following, on October 8 and 9 Fabiana Fazio brings to the stage the last chapter of her trilogy on neurosis, Nevrotika vol. 7-8-9.
The season continues on October 15 and 16 with Molière uanmensció (or whatever you want) written, directed and performed by Fabrizio Falco who, through the life of the French author, reflects on the condition of the artist today, and on October 22-23 with cazzimma&arraggia by Fulvio Sacco and Napoleone Zavatto, with coaching by Armando Pirozzi: the story of two swarmed managers of SSC Napoli who buy the greatest footballer of all time, Diego Armando Maradona, making the dream of an entire city come true.
Current events enter the scene on October 29 and 30 with Beckett on Tourette by VRAB pictures/Nutrimenti Terrestri in which, in the time of a pandemic that forces people to stay at home, a television interview investigates what has happened to the art world from the 80s to today.
November opens, from the 4th to the 6th, with Veleno – Bloody Pianos, Razor Blades and Other Messes, a new production by Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14, written by and starring Antimo Navarra and directed by Ilaria Delli Paoli. The play brings to the stage a complex life, one that, from the depths of abuse, attempts to rebuild itself through an encounter with classical music. It continues on November 12th and 13th with Le Regole del giuoco del tennis, by Vuliè Teatro, written by Mario Gelardi and directed by Michele Brasilio, a tennis match between two friends that becomes a tale of clichés about homosexuality.
On November 20th, it's the turn of Porco Mondo by Biancofango/La Corte Ospitale/Officina 1011: in the cult by Francesca Macrì and Andrea Trapani, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary, two desperate lives, two opposites, reveal themselves, consume themselves, to find themselves with no way out. On November 26th, Come una bestia by Baracca dei Buffoni will be on stage, a tour de force between comedy and intelligence freely adapted from “Sei una bestia Viskovitz!” by Alessandro Boffa, which represents the human condition in all its dignity and immodesty through hilarious metamorphoses.
There are many offerings for December: on the 3rd, "No List of Crooked Things" by Oscar De Summa, which, starting with a bereavement, opens up reflections on what is happening in the Mediterranean; on December 10th, "Venus and Adonis – We Are of the Same Lack as Dreams Are Made of," in which Roberto Latini stages, with his highly personal touch, one of the most surprising myths from Ovid's "Metamorphoses."
It might interest you
Dad's Journey with Maurizio Casagrande: Castaways on a Plastic Island to Find Their Friend
"Nati 80" debuts at the Totò Theater: loves, dreams, and disillusions of a fragile generation.
Gianfranco Gallo at the New Teatro Troisi with "I Married You Out of Ignorance"
At the Bracco Theater, "Without Hypocrisy," a tribute to a goddess of Naples, Angela Luce.
The new year kicks off with the XMAS mini-review, featuring Quijote! - To err is human, to persevere is chivalrous, a dreamlike reinterpretation of Cervantes' classic by Baracca dei Buffoni/Murìcena Teatro, on January 5th and 6th, and Santa Claus and the Mystery of the Missing List by La Mansarda – Teatro dell'Orco, a Christmas-themed mystery for children and adults alike, on January 7th and 8th.
From January 14 to 22, Il libraio straniero, produced by Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14, in which Roberto Solofria and Daniela Quaranta – directed by Rosario Lerro – stage a love story made of lies, betrayal and mystery. Following, on January 28 and 29, Bathroom – Dialoghi per donna, phon e Raffaella Carrà by and with Valeria Impagliazzo, the sole protagonist of a dialogue about fears, memories, anxieties and fantasies, with a mirror – the audience – that gradually transforms from a confessional to a true voyeur.
In February there will be space for three Campania productions: Teatro dell'Osso with Teatro Tram presents on 4 and 5 February In-Sanità by Pietro Fusco with Peppe Romano, a text-denunciation on healthcare in Southern Italy, in which the absurdity of events is identified with the truth of history itself; on 11 and 12 February the company Le Scimmie will stage Sound Sbagliato, from an idea by Alessandro Palladino and directed by Carlo Geltrude, a story in rhymes of four boys, of four lost roads. From 18 to 26 February Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14 will present Antuono ei doni dell'ogre, a dramatic staging by Luigi Imperato and Roberto Solofria, also directing, of the first tale of Giambattista Basile's masterpiece.
Lemons lemons lemons lemons lemons, by Sam Stainer and directed by Davide Pascarella, is the production of the Nuovo Teatro Sanità that will be on stage on March 4 and 5: the intimate, private story of Oliver and Bernadette and their newborn relationship, which intertwines with the public one, in which a government proposes an absurd law, which is approved and everyone's life is forced to transform from one midnight to the next. On March 11 and 12 on stage Don Giovanni (of the limit and of fiction) directed by Mario Autore, with an adaptation of the work by Molière by Antonio Piccolo, between drama and farce, which portrays a true enlightened ante litteram. On March 19 La strada by Leonardo Losavio and Roberto Galano, also protagonists of a journey in blablacar, in a tangle of two opposite roads united in the sudden turn they will encounter during the journey. The last weekend of March, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26, after the success of the past years, the theater invades the spaces of the Hotel dei Cavalieri in Caserta with Do Not Disturb – il teatro si fa in albergo, a project by Mario Gelardi and Claudio Finelli created in collaboration with the Nuovo Teatro Sanità which transforms the rooms into real stages, where the twenty spectators will 'spy' on the characters, breaking down the fourth wall.
April 1st and 2nd is the turn of the project by Virus Teatrali Tre. The Prozorov Sisters, a body to body with one of the essential authors in the history of theater, Anton Checov, of which one of the classics is rewritten until the outcome of collective scenic dramaturgy. On April 8th Trucioli, a project by Gli Omini for the production of the Metastasio of Prato, will be on stage, two actors only in 'tiny scenes of tiny characters, to reconstruct a miniature Italy, all inhabited by the littlest ones'. Vulìe Teatro on April 15th and 16th with Pig Bitch (literally Dirty Whore) – dramaturgy by Marina Cioppa and direction by Michele Brasilio – investigates the bond between a dirty girl and a whore, observing the concept of flesh that unites them and recounting the violence of both stories. On April 22nd, music is the protagonist of Inside The Clash, a seasonal event by Paky Di Maio and Luigi Iacono in collaboration with Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14, this year dedicated to the cult British punk band. The following weekend, Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th, it is the turn of La Faglia, a text by Adèle Gascuel directed by Simone Amendola with Valerio Malorni, a post-apocalyptic, comical fable, in which two antiheroes represent the logic of thought of the modern West, with the propensity to exploit bodies, beings and things.
The season closes on May 6th and 7th with Disintegrazione 2.0 - the splendid Magnetic Electro Machine by the EST (Electroshocktherapy) collective, composed of Ilaria Delli Paoli, Paky Di Maio, and Francesco Zentwo Palladino. This new version of the project was born to experiment between the boundaries of theater and music, passing through the visual arts, giving life to a hybrid performance that involves different artists from time to time, and to investigate new languages and possibilities for collective creation.
In addition to the programming, this year too, starting in October, TC14 renews its commitment to training. There will be many workshops for students of all ages who want to begin or continue their artistic journey, from writing to acting, to which is added the dramaturgy seminar by Massimiliano Civica, Chi l'ha scritto?, in conjunction with the staging of the show Scampoli (1-2 October).
The 2022/2023 season is made possible thanks to the support of the MIC – Ministry of Culture and the Campania Region.
Leave a comment