On Friday 26 January 2024 at 21.00:28 pm (repeated until Sunday XNUMX) the Trianon Viviani in Naples will host the debut of “La musica dei ciechi” by Raffaele Viviani, a show in two parts based on a project by Gigi Di Luca, who also signed the adaptation and direction.
Presented by La Bazzarra, the production will feature Antonella Morea, Roberto del Gaudio, Lello Giulivo, Ivano Schiavi, and with Mimmo Maglionico (wind instruments) Roberto Trenca (guitar), Vittorio Cataldi (accordion), the voiceover by Pamela Villoresi. The scenes are by Maria Teresa D'Alessio and Michele Lubrano Lavadera, the costumes by Giovanna Napolitano, the lighting design by Gianni Caccia, processing and music by Gigi Di Luca and Mimmo Maglionico.
Written in 1928, Music of the Blind is a drama about the conditions of marginalization, poverty and exploitation, but also about the ethical and moral defense of the weakest.
The project of this staging starts from Viviani to go beyond Viviani, seeking connections with other musical worlds and with other stories of fragility and diversity.
In an empty, bare space, almost as if to outline an unbridgeable distance between the presence and the absence of human life, in the middle of nowhere, here are the blind, the half-blind, the marginalized, the speaking souls, united by the same destiny, by a need to cling to each other in order to survive.
It is the South, fragile, pulsating and passionate, that goes from Naples to South America, the hub of humanity, reflection and rebellion of this theatrical project. A reinterpretation, in continuity with the artistic path of the director always characterized by the link between theater and music of the people, in which music is the protagonist.
Music with its loves and its sorrows, the music of the blind, which no longer plays, and brings with it silence, the only possibility of protest in a society made only of noise.
“With The Music of the Blind and, in the second part, of Other Blind Worlds, I felt – explains Gigi Di Luca – the need to connect Viviani's work to universal and contemporary themes. To the blindness of the world, to man's inability to look at marginalization and social discomfort. The language of music becomes the narration of stories and countries that are apparently distant but very similar to each other, and goes beyond the text itself".
Article published on 23 January 2024 - 11:14
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