From 16 to 19 November Ferdinando by Annibale Raiuto will be on stage, directed and starring Arturo Cirillo

From 16 to 19 November Ferdinando by Annibale Raiuto, directed and starring Arturo Cirillo, will be on stage.

Milano. After the successful tests of the author himself The five roses of Jennifer e The heiress (Ubu Award), Arturo Cirillo signs another classic and at the same time contemporary masterpiece.

The life of the baroness Donna Clotilde is shocked by the arrival of a sixteen year old from ephebic beauty. He will be the one to rekindle dormant passions and unmask old crimes.

We point out that the History and Literature Editions, in collaboration with the 'University of Naples Federico II, are publishing the critical edition of the Neapolitan playwright's theatrical works Annibale Raiuto. The first two titles have been published, Notturno di donna con occhi e The five roses of Jennifer, and will be published in 2024 Ferdinando. All the details and purchase options on the site www.storiaeletteratura.it

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

My decision to stage “Ferdinando” by Annibale Raiuto seems logical and unusual, at the same time. Logic because I recognize in Raiuto one of my authors, an author to whom I have returned several times, and with shows that are important to me. But the choice also seems unusual to me, since for me “Ferdinando” has always been linked to the show that the author himself curated (as well as the first interpreter of the role of Don Catellino), which toured all over Italy for many years making use of the great interpretation by Isa Danieli. Furthermore, for me the text has always appeared very different from all the others by Raiuto, a more realistic, historical text, a drama with a classical structure. The desire for an elusive teenager, born from an inconsolable need for love, matures in the minds of three desperate characters (Donna Clotilde, Donna Gesualda and Don Catello), prisoners of their own loneliness, exacerbated by habit. Then the whole historical aspect appeared to me to be a fiction, a theater of cruelty disguised as a bourgeois drama, in which even the language, the elusive Neapolitan in which Donna Clotilde takes form, is itself the language of the scene, the language of representation, no less of the much "disgusted" Italian. A scene composed of a single large drape that descends from above and contains the location of the action, a claustrophobic place in which all the characters coexist, who we see undress, get dressed, meet (like in a Luis Bunuel film). Characters locked up in dark, monastic and priestly clothes, out of devotion or mourning, but perhaps only for defense. Illuminated by revealing lights, as in a pagan miracle, where the intimacy of the notes of a piano coexist with the sumptuous and baroque ones of an organ. Then there is Ferdinand, a normal boy of a present time, bearer only of his young body on which the other three characters of this quartet draw their visions and desires. By transcending the person themselves, as often happens in falling in love, they deceive themselves and allow themselves to be deceived. After him, all that remains is the realization of his own failure and his own crazy and desperate loneliness, in a ghostly place inhabited by the dead and memories. It seems to me that with Ferdinando, once again and even more, Raiuto eliminates genres, both sexual and spectacular, to stage the ambiguous and the spell -. Arturo Cirillo

SHOW SHEET

by Annibale Raiuto with Arturo Cirillo, Sabrina Scuccimarra, Anna Rita Vitolo, Riccardo Ciccarelli scenes Dario Gessati costumes Gianluca Falaschi music Francesco De Melis direction Arturo Cirillo director collaborator Roberto Capasso production MARCHE THEATRE, Metastasio Theater of Prato, Theater Foundation of Naples – Bellin Theater

August 1870: the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies has fallen and the Bourbon baroness Donna Clotilde in his Vesuvian villa he “sick" of contempt for the Savoy king and for the petty-bourgeois Italy born from the recent unification. It is the hypochondriac noblewoman who acts as nurse Gesualda, poor cousin and soured by the bachelorette party, but secret lover of Don Catellino, Corrupt and vicious family priest. The days pass all the same, between pills, decoctions, resentments and lies. Upsetting the stagnant domestic balance is the arrival of a sixteen-year-old with ephebic beauty who, orphaned, is sent to live with Donna Clotilde, of whom he appears to be a distant nephew. He will be the one to throw havoc in the house, rekindling dormant passions and unmasking old crimes. But who really is Ferdinand?

ENTERTAINMENT DATES 16, 17, 18, 19 November Times 16 and 17pm 19.30pm 18pm 20.30pm 19pm 16.30pm

PRICES
Poltronissima
Full € 38,00
Reduced price under 30 / over 65 €27,00
Reduced under 18 € 19,00
Armchair/balcony
Full € 27,00
Reduced price under 30 / over 65 €24,50
Reduced under 18 € 19,00

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