Messina: “Rise the curtain”, the new season of the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò in Santa Teresa di Riva, begins

Messina: “Rise the curtain”, the new season of the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò in Santa Teresa di Riva, is underway.

Everything is ready for “The curtain rises”, the 2023/24 season of the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò in Santa Teresa di Riva (Messina), which has the artistic direction of Cettina Sciacca.

There will be ten shows, scheduled from 22 October to 24 May, which are part of this program which presents a varied and quality offer.

Added to these events are four fairy tales for the "Families at the Theater" section, scheduled for November 5th (The Three Little Pigs), December 17th (The New Pied Piper), March 3rd (The Ugly Duckling) and April 7th ( Peter Pan).

The artistic director Cettina Sciacca presents “The Curtain Rises” as follows: “We begin this new season with enthusiasm in the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò, which is a lively, welcoming structure, always open to novelties and new stimuli. After a past season which recorded record numbers, I can only thank the wonderful staff of the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò, I Sikilia, without whose dedication and passion it would not have been possible to achieve these objectives. For the 2023/24 season we are offering a carefully made selection of shows, because the quality and value of the proposals are the necessary prerequisite for being recognized and followed. Proof of this is the loyal audience who experience the Nuovo Teatro Val D'Agrò as a place of belonging, of meetings, of cultural exchanges".

The season will be inaugurated on Sunday 22 October at 18.30 pm by the show “Oceanomare” (Production Centro Teatro Studi), based on the book of the same name by Alessandro Baricco, directed by Franco Giorgio and dramaturgical reduction by Giuseppe Ferlito.

Protagonists on stage will be Giuseppe Ferlito and Maria Rita Sgarlato who will interpret this text born during the period of the pandemic, which brings with it all the doubts, hopes, illusions, torments that accompanied and "persecuted" us in those terrible months of hiding of the soul, and which were nothing other than the sharpening of "all the doubts, hopes, illusions, torments" that pile up, one on top of the other, during the entire existence of each of us.

These are the next events (which will all take place at 18.30pm):

Sunday 19th of “Occam's Razor” (Production of the Actors' Clan) is scheduled for November. The show by Giusi Arimatea and Giovanni Maria Currò (the latter is also the director), sees the actors Alessio Bonaffini, Tino Calabrò and Mauro Failla on stage.

Sunday 3th of "Ancora un momento" (Scenic Arts Laboratory Production) by Massimiliano Bruno and directed by Gianni Aureli will be staged in December with the actors Manuela Bisanti and Giancarlo Porcari as protagonists.

The first appointment of 2024 will be with “Sopra un palazzo” (Agricantus Production) Sunday January 14 by Sergio Vespertino (who is also the director and protagonist) and Marco Pomar.

“Taddrarite” (Teatro della Città Production) by Luana Rondinelli, who is also the director and one of the protagonists on stage together with Donatella Finocchiaro and Giovanna Mangiù, will be staged Sunday January 28.

“Mandragola” (Production Associazione Buio in Sala) by Massimo Giustolisi based on Niccolò Machiavelli is scheduled Sunday February 18. The direction is by Giuseppe Bisicchia and Massimo Giustolisi, who will also be on stage with Marina Puglisi, Giuseppe Brancato, Luigi Nicotra, Daniele Bruno, Silvana D'Anca, Giovanna Sesto and Salvo Casella.

Sunday March 17 it will be the turn of “La locandiera – esprit de pomme de terre” by Andrea Saitta, who is also a director, freely inspired by the work of Carlo Goldoni. On stage Ivan Graziano, Maria Chiara Pellitteri, Norman Quaglierini and Andrea Saitta.

Agnese Fallongo with her show “I Mezzalira – Panni dirty fritti in casa” (Production Teatro degli Incamminati) directed by Raffaele Latagliata, will be staged Sunday April 21. The protagonists are Agnese Fallongo, Tiziano Caputo and Adriano Evangelisti.

“Il circo capovolto” by Andrea Lupo (Produzione Teatro delle Temperie) directed by Andrea Paolucci and based on the novel of the same name by Milena Magnani is scheduled Sunday May 5.

The review will end Sunday May 26 with “One Hundred Thousand, One, Nobody – The Curious Story of Luigi Pirandello” (Teatro della Città Production), by Giuseppe Argirò starring the actor Giuseppe Pambieri.

Full price tickets: 18,00 €

Tickets under: 15,00 €