The text taken from the novel by Guy de Maupassant reveals what lies behind the composed facade of a lower-middle-class family.
The story, adapted by Massimiliano Palmese and directed by Rosario Sparno, stages the doubts and suspicions of a seemingly harmonious family.
On stage Raffaele Ausiello and Carlo Caracciolo
Teatro Tram's 2024 opens with Pierre and Jean, from the novel by Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Massimiliano Palmese and directed by Rosario Sparno, with Raffaele Ausiello and Carlo Caracciolo. On January 6 and 7, 2024, TRAM hosts an evocative off-program show: two brothers spend their summer holidays with their mother in the seaside house, between boat trips and visits from the young widow Rose, whom they both court; but the unexpected arrival of an inheritance first raises vague doubts and then terrible suspicions about what hides the composed facade of the respectable family unit.
In a quick sequence of scenes on the stage in Via Port'Alba, between the charming ceremonies of the two women and the harsh verbal clashes between the brothers, the romantic Pierre discovers that he has dreams and values opposite to those of Jean, who disappoints him and irremediably hurt him. Without warning, in Pierre and Jean, the lower-middle-class family shows its worst side, revealing itself as a slave to the god of Money and a hell of feelings that can instantly turn into their opposite: affection into jealousy and love into a rancor that can only be cured far away, away from everyone, in the direction of the sea.
“I rewrote the choral story of Pierre and Jean for just two interpreters – explains Massimiliano Palmese -, who on stage play both the male roles of the Roland brothers and the female roles of the mother and the young Rose: the challenge is to add to the acute portrait that Guy de Maupassant makes of the voracious modern bourgeoisie a game of disguises and exchanges, to entertain and/or hallucinate, attempting to reinvent in the form of a theatrical game a small masterpiece of European literature”.
“Pierre and Jean, Madame Roland and Rose. Pierre is Rose, Jean is Madame Roland. The staging of Pierre and Jean – adds director Rosario Sparno - he immediately suggested to me the ritual of the duel, where rights and wrongs have no value. A psychological duel, heartbreaking and refined, where everything is permitted and to win it does not matter the role you play, but only the strength to resist. The end of this cruel clash will have the function of declaring the winners and the losers: the only roles that society recognizes and that it will never be possible to change again”.
From 6 to 7 JANUARY 2024 PIERRE AND JEAN
from the novel by Guy de Maupassant
dramaturgy by Massimiliano Palmese
with Raffaele Ausiello and Carlo Caracciolo
directed by Rosario Sparno
Show times
Saturday: 20.30:18.00 PM | Sunday: XNUMX:XNUMX PM
Info and reservations:
cell. 342 1785 930 | tel. 081 1875 2126 | email tram.biglietteria@gmail.com
Full price €13,00 | Reduced €10,00
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