“ANIMA MUNDI”: IN MILAN LEOPARDI TALK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE
From Tuesday 13 to Friday 16 December, the Oscar Theater, the little pearl managed by Giacomo Poretti, will host Anima Mundi, an intense, lyrical and powerful show, by and with Lucilla Giagnoni, already known to the general public for Reading the 100 cantos of the Comedy of Dante. An innovative, intense, lively and vibrant show in which the protagonist, with the help of Leopardi, accompanies the audience on a long introspective journey through the future, the latest scientific discoveries, man’s relationship with Nature, touching current themes and as intricate as climate change and viruses. “We will not get out of the labyrinth with our now highly developed sectoral knowledge – themes I have already talked about in my shows Magnificat and Furiosa-Mente – but with the daily ability to broaden our gaze, consciously participating in making a soul in the world.” comments the author. The show opens the Generativity Trilogy. After the Trilogy of Spirituality and the one dedicated to Humanity, the author and performer – one of the greatest in storytelling theater – is back on stage with a show entirely dedicated to Giacomo Leopardi, continuing her now twenty-year journey of discovery and reflection on major issues of the present.
OEDIPUS RETURNS ON THE STAGE IN THE CAPITAL
A visionary and musical journey in the company of Oedipus, “he who dreams deep dreams”. It will be staged at the Parioli Theater from 14 to 18 December 2022, “Oedipus Re. A black fairy tale” a show by Ferdinando Bruni and Francesco Frongia, with Edoardo Barbone, Ferdinando Bruni, Mauro Lamantia, Valentino Mannias; costumes by Antonio Marras. Teatro dell’Elfo production, with the contribution of Next. Ferdinando Bruni and Francesco Frongia, authors and directors of this project, reinvent the ritual of tragedy with a contemporary look: the use of masks, the material costumes of Antonio Marras, which become scenographic presences, as well as the all-male cast “distance the story from all realism to bring it closer to a dreamlike dimension, capable of moving and speaking to the unconscious”. Four performers share the stage giving body and voice to all the characters of this myth: Ferdinando Bruni and three very talented ‘under 35’ actors.
“LA LADY PAPILLON” BY STEFANO BENNI DEBUT IN ROME
“La Signorina Papillon”, one of the funniest comedies by the brilliant and prolific Stefano Benni, will make its world premiere at the Teatro Lo Spazio in Rome from 15 to 18 December, directed by Piero Di Blasio. An irreverent and ironic critique of contemporary society told through 4 very different characters. The pure and naive Rose, butterfly collector and admirer of roses of every shape and color lives in her house in the countryside, far from the noise and corruption of the city, a world that does not belong to her. External and cumbersome presences will corrupt this bucolic landscape. My dear friend Marie Luise, lustful Parisian woman, lover of all those who matter. The poet Millet, a redeemed bohemian scribbler who believes that economic power matters more than anything else and that poetry should be subservient to it. And the commander of the lodge Armand, a despicable being devoted to violence and command, bloodthirsty and brawler, knows only the value of honor and the sword. All three have a job: to corrupt Rose to the modern world… and then kill her and steal her country villa and dog. Will they succeed in their enterprise? Will everything unfold according to the clumsy criminal plans of the three corruptors or was it all a dream?
“SETTIMO SENSO” BRINGS AN IMAGINARY MOANA POZZI TO THE STAGE
Euridice Axen plays Moana Pozzi in “Settimo Senso – Moana Pozzi”, by Ruggero Cappuccio, directed by Nadia Baldi. The show, after making its debut at the Napoli Teatro Festival in 2020, will be staged in Milan at the Franco Parenti Theater from 13 to 18 December and in Rome at the Parioli Theater from 18 to 22 January 2023. An imaginary dialogue between a woman and a man. Amazement erupts when the man realizes that the female presence is in all respects the same as Moana Pozzi. She catches his surprise and talks to him. She ensnares him in a mysterious dialogue and enunciates her idea of pornography, launching provocative statements against power, politics, careerism. The dialogue becomes tight and seductive. The woman displaces the writer by telling him that he is definitely planning to write an article-revelation on the false death of Moana Pozzi. She offers him a glamorous night game and she explains that he will have one night to decide whether to woo her or betray her with a journalistic scoop.
THE LIFE AND THE MASTERPIECE OF FS FITZGERALD GO ON STAGE
Saturday 17 December at 21.00 at the Civic Theater of Busca, in the province of Cuneo, the show “A Staging of Gatsby” will be staged for the first time, a production of the cultural association Le Cercle Rouge, included in the theater season “Stella Madre ” organized by Santibriganti Teatro in the Civic Theaters of Caraglio, Busca and Dronero. The director Costantino Sarnelli directs the actors Luca Armando, Mariella Caporaso, Claudia Ponzalino, Mario Giraudo, Nicola Manuppelli and Corrado Vallerotti, in a variety show on FSFitzgerald, written by Nicola Manuppelli. Considered by TS Elliot to be the “greatest breakthrough in American literature since Henry James” Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby contains all the past and future blueprints of the art of storytelling in the United States. It is a writing of training and rites of passage and at the same time a romance, a love story, about friendship and betrayal. A staging of the American dream, its promise, success and finally failure described by an author who tried both.
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