Frosinone, Paolantoni at the theater with O…Tello o… Io!

Frosinone, Paolantoni at the theater with O…Tello o… Io!

Born from the collaboration between Municipality of Frosinone e ATCL (multidisciplinary circuit of Lazio, supported by MIC - Ministry of Culture and Lazio Region), with the contribution of Banca Popolare del Frusinate, the program will propose the show with Francesco Paolantoni. 

Also on stage are Stefano Sarcinelli, Arduino Speranza, Antonio D'Ausilio, Manuela Zero, Felicia Del Prete.

The show, with a writing inspired by commedia dell'arte, with a fast pace and with the mechanism of "theatre within the theatre", tells the misadventures of an amateur company which, in the first act, is intent on rehearsing a production scene that will debut the following evening. 

The text chosen by the director, partly to distance himself from the classic Edwardian repertoire of amateur companies, partly because he wants to address the theme of jealousy, a feeling that usually tends to ruin relationships, is Othello. 

The first act develops between the attempt to rehearse the show, the delirious interpersonal discussions between the various actors, the psychological dissertations on relationships and the desperation for the news that the actor who was supposed to play the protagonist will no longer be coming. The director himself, therefore, will have to play Othello without knowing the part. 

In the second act, with the stage divided in two - on one side the show in progress and, on the other, the dressing rooms - we will simultaneously and simultaneously witness the merciless staging of Othello (with an inevitable different ending that Shakespeare would never have imagined) and to the strange events the actors faced in the dressing rooms.