The season opens, Saturday 9 November, with the musical IO, TU E LARRY (ME, YOU AND LARRY) (conceived and directed by Aldo Tarabella). An original performance centred around a puppet that plays Mozart and Rossini, giving even the most traditional arias a new, bizarre and entertaining twist. The Florentine theatre company Pupi di Stac, accompanied by the young singers of Opera Bazar, lead the spectator through the world of opera, where he can smile, play and be moved without too much seriousness. Performance free for season ticket holders.
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With FARÀ GIORNO (DAY WILL COME), Saturday 16 November, the history of the second world war is retold through the everyday. Directed by Piero Maccarinelli, the performance recounts the meeting between a seasoned partisan and a young upstart with decidedly opposing ideas. A real showman like Gianrico Tedeschi, alongside Marianella Laszlo and Alberto Onofrietti, develops the blinding contrast of two worlds, light years away from each other, separated by ideologies but forced to live together in that portion of past and present that, despite everything, has forced them to share the same pages of books and newspapers. Performance organised in collaboration with Anpi in Camaiore.
ZIGULÌ, (based on the book by the same name by Massimiliano Verga), on stage Thursday 5 December, springs from the private, desperate diary of a father who lives with the disability of a son. The performance, adapted and directed by Francesco Lagi and interpreted by Francesco Colella, recounts an extreme experience of fatherhood, the turbid and bumpy relationship between a father and his disabled son, examining the possibility and capacity of these two people to contaminate each other.
Proven success for almost thirty years for the Rome-based theatre company Attori & Tecnici, RUMORI FUORI SCENA (NOISES IN THE WINGS) by Michael Frayn comes to Camaiore on Wednesday 18 December, treating the audience to an evening of entertainment. The play – a gem, a high precision mechanism where each element functions perfectly – narrates the adventures of a rough and ready company of actors staging a Comedy of Errors full of sardines and doors that open and close.
The New Year opens, Wednesday 8 January, with SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, the celebrated Broadway musical made famous by the film with Gene Kelly, with music by Nacio Herb Brown. Directed by Corrado Abbati (director and interpreter of operetta, opera and musicals) that also boasts the collaboration of the English company Up Stage Designs to reproduce, thanks to the use of multimedia elements, the cinematographic atmospheres that play an important part in the story line.
Friday 31 January sees Ugo Chiti’s interpretation of a classic by Oscar Wilde, CANTERVILLE GHOST (ACCORDING TO MRS. UMNEY). The Tuscan director uses a fair dose of artistic license, as usual, in bringing the lesser characters into the foreground, on this occasion with the figure of Mrs. Umney. Interpreted by an irresistible Lucia Poli, Mrs. Umney accompanies us in a remake that retains the humorous and melancholic lightness that makes this one of Wilde’s best loved works.
Monday 10 February one of the most renowned works by Carlo Goldoni is on stage, GLI INNAMORATI (THE LOVERS), a showpiece of many great 19th century actresses, from Ristori to Duse. In this version by Synergie Teatrali, we have the pleasure of seeing the great Italian actress, Isa Barzizza, perform alongside Selvaggia Quattrini and Stefano Artissunch. With insecurities and mutual misunderstandings Eugenia, for revenge and on a whim, ends up engaged to Roberto in the aim of frustrating Fulgenzio. A still highly relevant comedy, exalting the psychology of all the characters and providing a sincere depiction of man and his weaknesses.
Originating from a workshop in Prato prison, Tuesday 25 February sees the performance of SANTA GIOVANNA DEI MACELLI, the latest work by Gianfranco Pedullà, with (amongst others) Rosanna Gentili and Marco Natalucci, inspired by the masterpiece by Bertolt Brecht in1929, in the midst of the capitalist economic crisis. The performance makes use of the technique of the “spoken chorus” and choral action to render the drama through original music, scenic machines of constructivist imprint and lighting with strong narrative intent.
Tuesday 11 March sees the arrival of Rocco Papaleo with his PICCOLA IMPRESA MERIDIONALE (SMALL SOUTHERN BUSINESS), a musical itinerary of the theatres of Italy. Theatre-song performance (with live music) in which Papaleo and Valter Lupo (also the director), puts together personal anecdotes and songs, surreal gags and poetic tales, some “not overly pressing” rap and funny stories.
The season closes, Thursday 27 March, with the Versilian theatre company If Prama with R…ESISTERE (a performance that formed part of Giovani in scena 2013 presented last May by FTS in collaboration with the Metastasio Theatre in Prato). The young actors of the If Prana Theatre Company, created in 2011 in the mountains of Lucca, reflect on the difficulty of being men and the almost impossible challenge of pursuing a career in acting in these times. Day after day we see the growth of isolating walls, shields of impotence that parry ever more timid attempts of social and cultural initiative. But no. It is the ground beneath them that is holding them up, suggesting that we can be reborn, we must discuss, fight, believe, change. We must resist! Performance organised in collaboration with Anpi in Camaiore.
Dott. A. Roncoli, Culture Office of the Town Council of Camaiore, tel 0584 9861
teatro@comune.camaiore.lu.it
Teatro dell’Olivo
Tel. 0584 981381
Fondazione Città di Camaiore
Tel. 0584 915056
Versilia Vacanze
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