A noteworthy winter season of prose takes place in the “Teatro Politeama” of Viareggio. The programme features great classics and interesting innovations, with very important performers. The Teatro Politeama collaborates with the nearby theatres of Pietrasanta and Scuderie Granducali of Seravezza to offer a wide choice of quality performances throughout the Versilia.
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A noteworthy winter season of prose takes place in the “Teatro Politeama” of Viareggio. The programme features great classics and interesting innovations, with very important performers. Since 1995 there has been collaboration with the nearby theatre of Pietrasanta, which consents to offering a wide choice of quality performances throughout the Versilia. Still in collaboration with the theatre of Pietrasanta, an initiative called “I Teatri della Versilia per le scuole” is organised, its objective being that of stimulating young people’s interest in the world of theatre by providing technical assistance and staging performances realised by the schools in the Versilia.
I teatri storici della Toscana : censimento documentario e architettonico / a cura di Elvira Garbero Zorzi, Luigi Zangheri, Giunta regionale toscana ; Roma : Multigrafica editrice, 1990
mercoledì 10 novembre
“Il Mare” di Paolo Poli tratto dai racconti di Anna Maria Ortese
Regia di Paolo Poli
23 novembre
Paolo Rossi in “Il Mistero Buffo di Dario Fo”
Regia di Carolina De La Calle Casanova con la partecipazione straordinaria di Lucia Vasini
20 dicembre
“Suoceri sull’orlo di una crisi di nervi” di Mario Scaletta
Regia di Giovanni De Feudis
conGianfranco D’Angelo, Eleonora Giorgi, Ninì Salerno e Paola Tedesco
25 gennaio
“La Tempesta”
Adattamento e Regia di Andrea De Rosa
con Umberto Orsini
2 febbraio
“Love Machines”
“Kataklò”, compagnia di Giulia Staccioli
15 marzo
“L’appartamento” di Billy Wilder e I.A.L. Diamond
Regia di Patrick Rossi Gastaldi
con Massimo Dapporto e Benedicta Boccoli
31 marzo
Hamlice – Saggio sulla fine di una civiltà
Drammaturgia e Regia di Armando Punzo
con i detenuti attori della Compagnia della Fortezza, Stefano Cenci e la partecipazione straordinaria di Maurizio Rippa
by car A12 motorway, exit Viareggio
trains and buses from Lucca
Ufficio Spettacolo del Comune di Viareggio
Villa Paolina Bonaparte, Via Machiavelli n. 2
Tel 0584 966339, every day from 17 to 19
mail ufficiospettacolo@comune.viareggio.lu.it
www.comune.viareggio.lu.it
Comune di Viareggio
The theatre “Politeama” in Viareggio was founded in 1869 under the name “Alhambra”, and was a wooden construction -initially precarious, but then worked on and strengthened-which the population of Viareggio, who are enthusiasts of nick names, immediately re-baptised calling it the horse of Troia. At the beginning of the century, after a change of ownership and observations made by an appointed technical commission, the structure was demolished and rebuilt, still using wood, maintaining its nickname but changing its official one: “Nuovo Politeama”. It was inaugurated on the 2nd of August 1902 with the performance “Come le foglie” by Giuseppe Giacosa and staged by the company Ermete Novelli. In 1918, a society concerning the theatre’s management called “Anonima” was formed and subsequently the dramatist Enrico Pea became the delegate advisor and diretor of the Politeama. In this way the works of Pea, commedies and Puccini’s operas were performed in the theatre next to the pier. The theatre, despite other modernisation work carried out on it, remained the horse of Troia until the outbreak of war. Hit by a bomb and badly damaged, the theatre was rebuilt in 1947, this time using reinforced concrete.