A theatrical journey through emotions, memories, and musical inspirations takes shape on the stage of the Nuovo Teatro Sancarluccio. From Friday, March 13th to Sunday, March 15th, "...and She Arrives! – Drops of Soul Between Music and Poetry" will debut, a show conceived and directed by Davide Rossetti with the "Il Nudo dell'Anima" Company.
In the small stage of San Pasquale a Chiaia, a long-standing hub for Neapolitan auteur theater, Rossetti takes on the roles of performer and director, leading the audience on a journey that intertwines poetry, music, and emotional memory. He is joined by an ensemble of actors including Salvatore Amabile, Scilla Ioni, Martina Graziano, Riccardo Baldelli, Stefania Murino, Antonio Musella, Margherita Sarno, Daniela Polistina, and Bruno De Filippis.
The show unfolds like a stage score in which verses, stories, and melodies blend to recount the many nuances of the experience of love. Sacred and profane love, desire and disillusionment, nostalgia and passion intertwine in a tale of intimate confessions and fragments of life. Symbolic and archetypal figures take shape on stage: the woman wounded by betrayal, the primordial Mother, the eternal feminine and masculine fragility, while the myth resurfaces in the figure of Orpheus, destined to turn away and lose his Eurydice forever.
The show's sound structure is supported by musical arrangements by Lucio Maglio, while the lighting design and sound are entrusted to Camilla Persico. Music is not simply an accompaniment but becomes a narrative element, capable of evoking collective memories and atmospheres suspended between melancholy and passion.
The musical scores that run through the show also include famous Italian songs such as "Parole parole," a symbol of sentimental illusions and broken promises, and "La voce del silenzio," evoked as a lyrical confession of the soul.
In his director's notes, Rossetti describes the work as a metaphor for the human journey, made up of unexpected encounters, sudden detours, and life-changing pauses. Every person we meet leaves a mark, and sometimes a female presence, almost a sudden revelation, opens the most secret doors of the soul.
“…and Here She Comes!” thus becomes a small theatrical liturgy dedicated to the mystery of encounters and the fragile beauty of emotions, a scenic tale that invites the spectator to recognize themselves in that timeless journey in which art, music, and poetry once again speak with the most authentic voice of life.
It seems to me an interesting attempt, on the small stage you could hear a poem that tried to speak to the audience, the music evoked connected memories, the lights created images but the story sometimes got lost and the fragments didn't always fit the meaning; the actors tried, some scenes remained confused.