Bari Theater Season 2023-2024: This weekend the celebration of Italo Calvino's 100th

Bari Theater Season 2023-2024: This weekend the celebration of Italo Calvino's 100th.

October 15th is the birthday of Italo Calvino: born in 1923, he would have turned next Sunday 100 years.

For #100Calvino, as part of the theatrical season of Bari 2023_24 of the Municipality of Bari-Department of Culture - Pugliese Public Theatre, at the Piccinni municipal theatre, after Prix ​​Rai of 2 October with the readings of Blacks Marcorè and after the show The Doll Theater Castle of October 9th, a series of shows and initiatives are scheduled this weekend.

Tomorrow, Saturday 14 October, pm 10.30 (reserved for schools/higher institutes) e to 21, and Sunday 15 October, at 18pm, the UBU Award Mario Perrotta he will bring his own “Like a kind of vertigo – The Dwarf, Calvino, the freedoms”, of which he is the director and actor, with the collaboration of the director Paola Roscioli.

After the show aimed at schools, Mario Perrotta meets the students for a debate on the themes of the show and on the figure of Calvino (with in-depth analysis by Giancarlo Visitilli).

Sunday 15 October, at 11am, again on the stage Piccinni: The Gym – Special Edition “Happy Birthday Calvino!”, a lesson show with the artistic direction of Francesco Maria Asselta and scientific advice from Lea Durante.

“This weekend we will continue our homage to Italo Calvino, one of the most important writers of the 900th century, with the help of Mario Perrotta, award-winning actor, playwright and director, and with a special appointment of La Palestra, the in-depth and comparison which for the third year accompanies some of the themes and authors of the municipal prose season – comments the Councilor for Culture Ines Pierucci . We wanted to dedicate the opening of the prose season of the City of Bari to Calvino's work, to his political and cultural commitment, to his rigor, to his imagination, leaving some of the names to lead us to the discovery of his world. most important in the contemporary cultural panorama, to offer our public reflections and emotions of great artistic and civil value".

Saturday 14 October at 21pm

Sunday 15 October at 18

Like a kind of vertigo – The Dwarf, Calvino, freedom; written, directed and starring Mario Perrotta, with the directing collaboration of Paola Roscioli

Info to this link.

LIKE A KIND OF VERTIGO
The Dwarf, Calvino, freedom
duration 75'
Permàr – Mario Perrotta Company / ERT- National Theatre
written, directed and starring MARIO PERROTTA
collaboration with the director Paola Roscioli
mashup and original music Marco Mantovani / Mario Perrotta
with the support of the Emilia Romagna Region, Municipality of Medicina
in collaboration with Teatro Asioli of Correggio, Duel

On stage is a man, or rather, his inner voice. It's his soul that puts on a show. Among the many inhabitants of the pages of Calvino's novels, is the least free: he has a body, a language and a mind that do not respond to his urge to say, to act. Today and only today, however, he has decided to make a spectacle of his existence, of his thoughts, of the feelings that agitate him. He, nailed as he is to a cross that he didn't want, decided to take an hour of fresh air, an hour and a little more of freedom. And he searches for it, freedom, among the pages of the works of “Mr Calvino Italo”, he tells it as he knows and as he can, he transforms it into verses, into music, into parables and hyperbolic connections between one novel and another, into sarcastic and frenetic theater-songs and sudden intimate minuets, “scalvinando” those works for his use and consumption. All while passing by, bitterly ironic, his very personal love story, an impossible story for that body and that tongue incapable of speaking.

“The character on stage is an inhabitant of Cottolengo, the Dwarf from the autobiographical novel La giorno d'un scrutatore, a character to whom Calvino dedicates only one page, albeit a memorable one. I chose him and imagined his entire existence - an existence that Calvino doesn't tell us - precisely because my intent was to reason around the concept of freedom and the Dwarf in the novel is totally devoid of it", writes Mario Perrotta.

Sunday 15 October at 11

THE GYM special edition
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALVIN!
artistic direction by Francesco Maria Asselta
scientific consultancy by Lea Durante
interventions by Silvio Perrella and Lea Durante
readings by Paolo Panaro
Mirko Signorile on the piano

Free entry with reservation on Eventbrite

The project "Happy birthday Calvin!”, this extraordinary occasion of the centenary of his birth, will be an opportunity to talk about his life, his works, but above all his entirely personal idea to represent a model of an entirely inorganic intellectual, far from direct commitment, discussing it not only with scholars, critics and specialists of Calvinian literature (Silvio Perrella and Lea Durante), but also opening ourselves to his words with the readings of Paolo Panaro (which brought Il Barone Rampante to the stage), and to the encounter with musical projects dedicated to “Invisible cities”, played by Mirko Signorile in duo with Giovanna Carone.