Located in the central square of the town, the theater was founded in 1930 and operated since World War II until the 70s as a cinema. Purchased and renovated by the municipality of Lucca, it is today with the stage structure, narrow hole, with 350 seats divided between the stalls and a small gallery. The theater is particularly suitable and widely used for plays or operettas with small companies, chamber concerts cabaret, performances and choral festivals, philharmonic.
Teatro Idelfonso Nieri Valdottavo host the III edition of the Festival of amateur theater organized by FITA. The comparison with the theatrical realities of the region, will see alternating performances and timeless classics of Italian and European tradition with entertaining and highly enjoyable.
program:
Saturday, November 12
h 21:15 – Notte da Jellicle: The musical. Compagnia Le Formiche.
It is a special night in the landfill. It's "Night of Jellicle", and the "Jellicle Cats" are found, as every year, for the vigil in which the supreme leader, Deuteronomy, will decide who will be reborn in the afterlife happiness. The Jellicle Cats come sneaking and then exploded in hymns that celebrate the mystical feline and recall the deep and mysterious meaning of their name pending the choice that will be before dawn, at sunset the moon.
Friday, November 18
h 21:15 – Stivali Stravaganti: The musical. Compagnia VitaminaDance.
In the gray province of Northampton, north of London, Charlie Price inherits from his father the family business of typical English shoes, restrained and classic. But Charlie soon realizes that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. In London he runs into Lola, an exuberant drag queen who will give him the idea to save the company.
Saturday, November 19
h 21:15 – Se devi dire una bugia dilla grossa. Compagnia dei tappezzieri di Livorno.
The comedy takes place in a luxury hotel in Rome: the center of the scene a couple in matrimonial crisis: the pressure of the plot. The constant misunderstandings and more and more dense twists, gave the affair full of fun and paradoxical situations.
Saturday, December 3
h 21:15 – Molto rumore per nulla (Much Ado About Nothing). Laboratorio teatrale Ridi Pagliaccio, Grosseto. Directed by James Muscat.
Joyful comedy and tragic-comic William Shakespeare is set in a rich country residence, fifteen characters intertwine their destiny, between love and hate, hope and delusine, joy and bitterness.
Saturday, December 10
h 21:15 – Il calapranzi. AtTieSse Theatre Company, Theatre Association Entertainment, Pisa. Directed by James Bertoni and Stefano Nencini.
The Harold Pinter plys tells about two professional killers in a basement, waiting for orders, coming through n elevator. The climate that creates alternating moments of laughter and moments of hysteria and tense moments.
Saturday, December 17
h 21:15 – Requiem for Radames. New theater Company in 2000, Lucca. Directed by Fabrizio Primucci.
Comic grotesque comedy of Aldo Nicolaj, an ironic and biting work, a critique of the world of theater and opera: two sopranos elderly, despite living in a hostel for artists, do not yield to the competition and the desire to win big.
Saturday, January 7
h 21:15 – La tettonica dei sentimenti (Tektonik der Gefühle). Company Court Bardo Theatre, Firenze.Regia of Blacks Pollastri.
Comedy by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt on love seen through the relationship difficult between the components of a couple, together for some time and decided to get married, where the emotional tension and frequent twists keep the attentive viewer.
Saturday, January 14
h 21:15 – Le irregolari- Buenos Aires Tour Horror. Company G.A.D. city “‹”‹of Pistoia. Directed by Franco Checchi.
Adapted from the novel by Massimo Carlotto about the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the continued complaint against the regime who removed their children and grandchildren, torturing them, killing them or causing them to be adopted under a different name, in what was a violent repression and an atrocious violation of human rights .
Saturday, January 21
h 21:15 Miseria e nobiltà. Compagnia I Commedianti , Lucca. Directed by Mauro Gualzetti.
In the Comedy in three acts by Eduardo Scarpetta, the story of two poor families, who pretend to be relatives of a Marquis, in love with the daughter of a cook, to "hold the hand" in the eyes of his family.
Saturday, January 28
21:15 – La lunga notte del Dr Galvan. (Ancien malade des hôpitaux de Paris). The company Aftereffects Theatre, Lucca. Directed by Tiziano Rovai. Based on the story of Daniel Pennac telling a night in the emergency room of a hospital, and a patient who moves to the doctor who has to care for, an unpredictable and daring night.
Saturday, February 4
21:15 – L'ultimo degli amanti focosi. by Neil Simon. Compagnia Teatro Fuori Rotta, Padova. Directed by Giole Peccenini.
A middle class American lifestyle, where emerging fears, arrogance and weaknesses, all in the name of the most hilarious comedy.
At the end of that show, will be held the awards ceremony of the Regional Competition The Toscanello.
IL TOSCANELLO – festival of amateur theater
Lucca, Loc. Ponte a Moriano – theater Idelfonso Nieri
5 November 2016 / 4 febbraio 2017
h 21:15
ticket € 8,00 – concessions € 6,00