As part of the CorpoNovecento cultural theater festival at the Teatro Nuovo, directed by Pasquale De Cristofaro, the show "Jennifer – The Dream!" returns to the stage in Salerno on Friday, March 22nd. It is based on "The Five Roses of Jennifer" by Annibale Ruccello, a playwright from Campania who passed away at just thirty years old.
JENNIFER, THE DREAM _ Friday 22nd March at 21.00 pm at Teatro Nuovo (Via Valerio Laspro, 8- Salerno)
INFO: info@teatronuovo.it | 089 220 886 | 339 651 0974
Actor and director Antonello De Rosa plays Jennifer, a romantic transvestite who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Naples in the 80s, where he spends most of his time locked in his house waiting for a phone call from Franco, the engineer from Genoa with whom he is in love.
The show - on stage for almost thirty years - has received numerous national awards and prizes, including the prestigious Camilleri Award, with an exceptional jury: Fioretta Mari, Ida Carrara and the writer Camilleri. On that occasion De Rosa was declared one of the best Italian theatre interpreters. "You didn't play Jennifer, you are Jennifer! And tell me from what author's pen you come," Camilleri's comment to the actor and director from Salerno on the occasion of the awards ceremony at the Valle Dei Templi a few years ago.
Jennifer is a show that goes beyond the staging; Antonello De Rosa's scenic and directorial rewriting, in fact, has become the subject of twenty university theses at the Faculties of Performing Arts, Sociology, and Philosophy of national universities and also at the prestigious Scottish University of St.
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THE PLOT
In truth, Jennifer receives numerous calls – both anonymous and otherwise – from others, amidst misunderstandings and provocations. “Towards his beloved” – reveals De Rosa – “never loses its typical romanticism, the true leitmotif of this one-act play. This is underlined by the musical dedication repeated on the radio: Patty Pravo's hit Se perdo te which is interspersed with the news broadcast by the radio station about a serial killer who is killing the neighborhood transvestites”.
The change of register and the sudden passages from the dramatic to the tragic and the comic, make the scene rich in personality, a type of personality that keeps the viewer's attention alive on Jennifer, played by De Rosa. Fear, anguish, loneliness, delirium: all emotions that alternate in this inner journey of Jennifer, in which the viewer is immersed.
Jennifer appears on the scene, a light and uncertain shadow on the thin line that divides the feminine from the masculine, continually searching for herself, her sexuality, her nature as a man, her truth as a woman. Her obsessions slowly take shape, macerated in long, solitary nights, in the confines of a room in a shadow, waiting for desired but never received phone calls.
Jennifer lives between dream and reality, as if suspended, hanging on the thin thread of hope of being able to live a passion. On stage with De Rosa, the actress Margherita Rago and Simona Avallone.
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