Then Francesco Di Leva, the “virtual” Pirandello of Elio Germano and much more,
After last year's huge success, the engines are turned on for the second edition of "Est", the festival of arts and entertainment of Naples Est that Nest Napoli Est Teatro, in collaboration with Callysto Aps have created, with the contribution of the MIC and the Municipality of Naples, for a month of September of culture and aggregation between concerts, dance and theater. The festival is part of the cultural project "Affabulazione - Espressioni della Napoli Policentrica" which involves, in addition to the Nest theater, the Asterix center and the Officine San Carlo, also unusual places, such as the prison "Salvia" (Poggioreale), the WWF oasis cratere degli Astroni and Auditorium Porta del Parco di Bagnoli; and, again, churches, parks, gardens and theaters.
The artistic direction was entrusted to the Nest company: “After the success of the last edition, with four months of shows always sold out, we could not help but dive head first into this magnificent adventure that is “Est Festival”.
Last year, in synergy with Callysto, we managed to bring to San Giovanni a Teduccio artists of the caliber of Rocco Papaleo, Marina Confalone, Francesco Montanari, Giuliana De Sio and many others. The public response was incredible with an unimaginable turnout from all over the eastern area of Naples and beyond: an opportunity to meet our audience again after the dark years of the pandemic but also the possibility of making our proposals known to a wider audience from all over the city.
Also this year the shows, which will be on stage for the entire month of September, will be completely free. We have decided to reduce the number of shows and to concentrate them all in a single month, close to the theater seasons as the beginning of a season that we hope will be "amazing". We will open with the concert of Francesco Di Bella and end with a dance theater show by and with Anna Redi, in the middle theater shows of the highest level with Francesco Di Leva, Giuseppe Gaudino, Gigi Diberti and many others.
Art must be experimented through modern and creative languages, and for this reason ample space will also be given to workshops, among which those of Roberto Aldorasi and Adriano Pantaleo stand out”.
All events will be completely free. It will be necessary to book online for individual events exclusively on the eventbrite platform. Bookings must be confirmed at infofestivalest@gmail.com
It starts on September 16th at 20:30 pm at the Asterix Center with the concert of Francesco Di Bella: historic frontman of 24 Grana, a band that pioneered Italian alternative rock, who with engaging and energetic performances have become popular in social centers, among national festivals and beyond, arriving to play in France, Japan, Spain, England and Slovenia. The artist's latest release is the album Play With Me, published on April 22, 2022 in digital format and on May 20 in CD format. The album retraces Francesco Di Bella's career with some of his most important pieces, rearranged in an acoustic key.
On September 17 at 20:30 pm, again at the Asterix Center, Francesco Di Leva will be there with I Giovani Infelici. Accompanied by the young 'Onest and the live music of Ralph P, the Neapolitan actor will immerse the audience in a reading on the theme dear to the Greek tragedy of the predestination of children to pay for the sins of their fathers addressed by Pasolini. "Gennariello responds to Pasolini with a title, an incipit, a suggestion or perhaps a utopia because after forty-seven years he has decided to reopen that pedagogical treatise intended for him and to give back to Pierpaolo what he misses most and what he has missed most, what in the first pages the great poet and intellectual from Bologna describes as your dialogue, your voice, your smile", explains Fabio Pisano who curated the dramaturgy.
On September 21st at 19 pm at the Nest theatre there will be the return of the Peer Gynt – The Body of the Dream workshop with Roberto Aldorasi. During the workshop that will begin on September 16th, the young participants will experiment with Roberto Aldorasi the techniques of theatre understood as the privileged language of dreams, clear and at the same time always ambiguous and will experience the construction and bringing to life of figures that give dreams the colours and substance of the creations of one of the most original artists of European puppet theatre, through one of Ibsen's most significant texts, Peer Gynt.
Another evening of music to be experienced on September 23rd at 20:30 pm at the Asterix center with the concert of Elisabetta Serio. Sensitive, reserved, thoughtful, Elisabetta Serio infuses a double aesthetic alchemy into her music: in her piano playing, an elegiac melodic lyricism merges with a light rhythmic ripple with measured balance. The rehearsals of a live show are a script, a direction of the form, but what will be played in that moment, in that situation, with that audience, is unique and unrepeatable, and this is the philosophy that Elisabetta puts on stage every time she goes on stage.
It continues on September 25 at 21 pm at the Nest with “ET The incredible story of Elio Trenta”. Written by the actor Luigi Diberti and the screenwriter Gianmario Pagano, directed by Francesco Frangipane and with live music by Raffaele Toninelli, it represents a necessary opportunity to learn the story of Elio Trenta, a very young dreamer, curious, enterprising, intelligent and wonderful emblem of Italian genius. And it does so by starting from real historical elements, and then indulges in a narration that leaves room for fantasy, magically retracing the genesis of this visionary idea and the genius of this unknown Umbrian boy who lived a century ago and died too soon. The show debuted as part of the Todi Festival 2021, obtaining acclaim from the public and critics.
On September 26th at 21 pm at the Nest there will be a show that will leave you speechless: Così è (o mi pare), a virtual reality rewriting of Così è (se vi pare) by Luigi Pirandello, adapted and directed by Elio Germano, who also plays Lamberto Laudisi. The filming took place at the Tenuta Bossi dei Marchesi Gondi and the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, which with its artistic director Stefano Accorsi strongly supported this project, which marks the beginning of a shared creative journey with Elio Germano. The show was designed to be performed in virtual reality, a new technological tool, between cinema and theater, capable of placing the spectator at the center of the scene. Through headphones and visors, the audience finds themselves no longer in the theater, but inside the luxurious apartment where the story takes place, more precisely inside the body of one of the characters, who sees and hears everything: Commendator Laudisi, Lamberto's elderly father, in a wheelchair, an invention not present in the original script. This opens up the possibility of a one-of-a-kind experience, useful for the purpose of the story and for reflecting on the Pirandellian theme of what is real and what is true.
On September 29th at 21 pm at Nest we will attend the show “Via Senza amore 23” with Giuseppe Guadino, dramaturgy by Gianni Solla and direction by Giuseppe Miale di Mauro. The story of a lonely man who tries not to be. The sweetness, the pain, the friendship, the drastic choices of his parents and the love that run through the life of this human being. Between laughter, melancholy and a pinch of madness that are life, if nothing else that of Gaetano, an employee of the land registry of Naples, convinced that the places we live in end up inhabiting us. The story is that of a love that lasted over time, that for a woman who changed his life. For better? For worse? We cannot know, the only certain thing is that Gaetano has never forgotten that woman.
This second edition of Est will end on September 30th at 21 pm at the Nest theater with the dance show “La conferenza degli uccelli”, a danced theatrical narration by Anna Redi. This ancient Sufi tale from 1177 tells us about a group of birds who set out in search of their King, the Simorgh. It is an initiatory journey in search of their deepest and most authentic self where only a small group survives the obstacles, the seven valleys, and reaches their destination. Exhausted, after years, they realize that “The Simorgh was none other than themselves and they themselves were the Simorgh”.
In addition to the above-mentioned shows, from 25 to 27 September there will be “The Actor's Body”, a workshop with Adriano Pantaleo.
What does it mean to “be on stage?”, how to vivify a text through one’s body? From Decroux to Barba, Adriano Pantaleo will hold a workshop for aspiring actors that has its roots in the techniques of the theatrical game par excellence: the physical expressiveness of the actor.
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