La Spezia, Coro De Andrè presents: “Liberi a mezzo” freely inspired by “Il Visconte dimezzato” by Italo Calvino
Sunday 14 January 2024 at 16.30pm. Monday 15 January 2024 at 10am Matinee
La Spezia, Coro De Andrè presents: “Liberi a mezzo” freely inspired by “Il Visconte dimezzato” by Italo Calvino
La Spezia, 13 January 2024 – The 14-2024 Children's Season will start on Sunday 16.30 January 15 at 10 pm (repeat on Monday 2023th at 24 am for schools): on stage the Coro De André with “Liberi a mezzo”, text freely inspired by “The Viscount halved” by Italo Calvino.
- Text, piano and musical direction: Gloria Clemente
- Direction and lighting design: Simone Ricciardi
- Video shooting: Leonardo Bertucci
- Live graphics: Febe Bonini
- Scenes: Alessandro Ratti
- French horn and percussion: Pietro Sinigaglia
- Electric bass and loops: Andrea Cozzani
A Sunday afternoon at the theater for very young spectators and their families, to immerse themselves in the special and fantastic universe of the stage. Why “fun is a serious thing”, as Calvino himself wrote in closing the preface of his novel in 1952. All this in harmony with the great Bertolt Brecht, who considered entertainment the first social function of a theatrical work.
Calvino tells the story of Medardo, a man cut in half by an explosion, whose adverse and dissonant parts survive: one charitable, the other cruel and ruthless. With a twist in time, the story has been moved to the present, or rather to a partly dystopian future, partly already before the eyes of all of us.
2052: an atomic bomb is dropped as a last-ditch attempt to end a world war. Humanity emerges devastated but not exactly as imagined.
Guided and inspired by the gaze lucid by Calvino spectators will try to understand, in this mad rush towards the absurd, what can survive, why perhaps, “a complete viscount is not enough for the whole world to become complete”.
- Recommended age: from 6 years
- Tickets are available at the Civic Theater Box Office
- Info: tel. 0187-727521
- Email: info@teatrocivico.it
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