Mother Festival Theaterborn 5 years ago in the heart of the Archaeological Park of Santa Maria d’Agnano in Ostunicomes this year to his V Edition scheduled from the July 15th to August 15th. Five years of theater, music, workshops, experiences in nature, spent gathering great affection from the public, always numerous even and despite the difficulties experienced in the two years of the pandemic.
V Edition full of appointments with a very diversified and high quality artistic proposal: 20 scheduled shows, 35 guest artists from all over Italy and Switzerland, including theater for families, tout-public theater, prose theater for a wider audience. adult, comic theater, civil theater, concerts, a refreshment point always open set up by Beetroot Natural cuisine, Dj-set, afternoon events for the little ones. Great news of this 5th edition will be Midnight in the Parklike a festival within a festival: 3 concerts and 2 theatrical performances hosted in a new small amphitheater for 100 people, built with straw bales, to allow spectators to ‘stay’ longer under the stars in the silent wonder of the Parco di Santa Maria d’Agnano.
Teatro Madre, with the artistic direction of Enrico Messina And Daria Paoletta, is designed and built by Armamaxa / PagineBiancheTeatrotogether with Civic Museum of Ostunipromoter of the festival, in collaboration with the Apulian Public Theater and support of the Municipal Administration of Ostuni. This month-long review, which we like to call Festival with a look that projects into the near and conscious future, has seen the audience and programming constantly grow over the years and has the ambition to continue to do so in the coming years with a project that we would like to design in the long term and a precise direction. The Festival is an exemplary model of synergy between Public Institution (Civic Museum and Archaeological Park) and Cultural Operators of the territory (Armamaxa – Theatrical Residence of Ceglie M.ca): a cultural project supported by itself, for its own DNA, becomes a tool to reactivate and give new light to an archaeological area of which it is first of all the local community that returns to appropriate itself and which, at the same time, increases its capacity attractor of important flows of people who, in the Festival and in the Park, find a good reason to motivate their move. After all, the recipe is simple: quality in the choice of shows, great attention to respect for the place and to welcome the public and artists; so that everyone not only feels the desire to return to the Mother Theater and the Park, but also the desire to share with other people the cultural and human experience lived by becoming its promoters and always inviting new spectators and new visitors. To put it, in other words, more poetic, with Teatro Madre we try to build a place of the soulin which you have the desire to return, every time as if it were the first, to live an experience of beauty, culture, nature and pleasure, sharing the extraordinary creative energy that that place holds and that art, theater, music are capable of reactivating and detonating.
Below is the program in detail.
The fifth edition will open Friday 15 July with “Mr. Bloom “a poetic show tout public in which Antonio Brugnanoactor, mime and extraordinary clown, will stage his “dream clown”, in very delicate a tribute to Chaplin and Tati, and to the immortal masks of Charlot and Monsieur Hulot.
S.abbot July 16will see the return of “Esterina Centovestiti“, With Daria Paoletta and directed by Enrico Messinato celebrate the victory of the Eolo Awards 2022 how Best Theater Show for Children and Youth: a show capable of catapulting young and old into the emotional turmoil of childhood and adolescence that we have all gone through.
Wednesday 20 July the first concert of the Teatro Madre Festival 2022, with the accordion prepared from Alessandro D’Alessandro which seems to take on the breath of an orchestra and its project live of exploration of author music: “Songs“.
Friday 22nd Julyfirst appointment with the theater dedicated to adults: the extraordinary Serena Balivo, directed by Mariano Dammacco, will lead to the Mother Theater “Broken is the heart of Beauty”, Winner of the Ubu Award 2020-2021 New Italian text, which speaks of disillusioned, wounded, longed-for love, through the confessions of two unsuspecting women in a love triangle.
Saturday 23 Julytheater for families with “Vasalisa and the Babaracca “, the splendid version of the famous Russian fairy tale of Kuziba Theater and the amazing babaracca built by Bruno Soriato staged with Annabella Tedone.
Wednesday 27th July double appointment at the Park of Santa Maria d’Agnano: at 21for the adult public and tout public, the Trio Triochethree comedians, tragic and ungainly musicians and clowns will play with lyric and comic art on Mozart’s famous aria in “Papagheno Paghena “ directed by Rita Pelusio. At 11.55 pm, in the small straw amphitheater, the first appointment of Midnight at the Park withMarco Grossi that with his ‘superhuman mask’, moving from the commedia dell’arte, he will wear the clothes of “Oedipus Tired”To narrate the tragic events of the palace of Thebes.
Friday 29th Julythe programming of adult theater continues hosting “Napucalisse “ from Mimmo Borrellione of the most extraordinary playwrights and poets of contemporary Italian and Neapolitan theater, winner of two Ubu Awards and, in the last season, among the protagonists of Gomorra. At 11.55 pm second appointment of Midnight at the Park with the concert “The Naked Singing” from Nicola Lottoan eclectic Paduan singer-songwriter whose roots lie in folk music and Italian songwriting.
S.abbot July 30 theater for families with “Alfredo duck”, A hilarious puppet show with Simone Guerrodirected by Daria Paoletta, in the guise of the puppeteer Bruce struggling with his new puppet Alfredo, a Youtuber duck!
Full of surprises the evening of Wednesday 3 Augustwhen the great comedian will go up on the stage of the Teatro Madre at 9.00 pm Max Pisu in “Unstable affects”, A show that will make you think but above all laugh; while at 23.55 the small straw amphitheater of Midnight will welcome the notes of Brancaleone Project, the instrumental trio of Distant Giorgio, Rocco Nigro And Giuseppe Spedicato, and their live “Please”On the suggestions of the cinema of Fellini and Nino Rota.
Friday 5th Augustgreat return to Teatro Madre: Rita Pelusio, among the most original voices of contemporary comic art, he will present his brand new show “Emma’s Happiness”, Which deals with the difficult theme of the end of life with courageous delicacy, directed by Enrico Messina. To follow, at 23.55for Midnight in the Park, Short Wave Music the concert of Antongiulio Galeandro who with his accordion and his installations will accompany the public into the time of the radio, between the world where it is now dark and the world where it is now day.
Saturday 6th Augustevening dedicated to families with Claudio Milani, one of the most representative figures of Italian children’s theater, who will bring to the stage, with extreme delicacy, the typical fears of children, with the show “BU!“. The night of San Lorenzo, Wednesday 10 August, will be celebrated with a double appointment: at 9 pm “Gnut in concert”, one of the best, most poetic and interesting voices of contemporary songwriting. Following, at 11.55 pm, in the straw midnight amphitheater, the adult theater with “Desert flowers” from Kuziba Theatera journey narrated in spirituality Mediterranean and our land of Puglia of the Discalced hermits and Giovanni da Matera, real Francis of the South.
Friday 12 and Sunday 14 August, two shows are scheduled for a transversal and ageless audience. The first is an international event: from Switzerland the Baccalà company will enchant young and old with “PSS PSS”, An award-winning, unique, enchanting, virtuous and very entertaining contemporary circus show. Sunday 14th Augustit will be the turn of Roberto Abbiati and Leonardo Capuanowith their amazing PASTRIESa hilarious, fragrant and dessert-proof show!
Monday 15th August (4.45 am), in a moment of exceptional conjunction between art and nature, when Aurora opens the day rising from the sea right in front of the audience of the Amphitheater, the Tarantini Yaràkä, Virginia Pavone, Gianni Sciambarruto, Simone Carrino, they will greet this 5th edition of the Teatro Madre Festival with a musical journey that delves into the sounds of the origins of the cultures of the world and mixes the African rhythmic matrix with Mediterranean and Southern Italian sounds.
Teatro Madre Festival is also an articulated proposal of games and animations for the little ones, to spend the afternoon waiting for the shows to go on stage tout publicbetween the construction of kites and the treasure hunt of the Circolo Arci “Mariella Leo di Crispiano”, the Traditional Games of the Casarmonica Games Festival, musical and theatrical improvisations.
The babysitting service has been confirmed for the shows aimed at adults and the inevitable free guided tours, by Pamela Viaggi from Ostuni, to the cave where the ‘Mother’ of Ostuni was found and two other prehistoric burials. To welcome the public, every evening, the musical selections of Giovanni Calella and the original and creative culinary proposals of Raparossa Cucina Naturale.
For more info and details on the shows: www.paginebiancheteatro.it
Box office and useful info
The shows will start at 21.00. The shows in the Midnight section at the Park will start at 11.55 pm. The dawn concert will start at 4.45 am
All events will take place in the open space of theAmphitheater of the Archaeological Park of Santa Maria di Agnano and the Amphitheater of Paglia (for the Midnight shows at the Park).
Reservations are required at +39 389 265 6069. Alternatively, tickets can be purchased on vivaticket.it
Tickets
Unique not numbered place.
Children’s theater – The place of summer fairy tales: euro 6
Theater for adults: € 10
Concerts: 8 euros
Midnight in the Park: euro 6
TEATRO MADRE FESTIVAL THE V EDITION IN PROGRAM AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF SANTA MARIA DI AGNANO