“Let's meet at the theater”: the 2023-2024 theater season at the Apollo and Paisello theaters

“Let's meet at the theater”: the 2023-2024 theater season at the Apollo and Paisello theaters.

Fabrizio Pugliese, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Compagnia del Sole, Vanessa Scalera, Luca Bizzarri, Giorgio Colangeli, Mariano Rigillo, Lella Costa, Elia Schilton, Francesco Montanari, Cristiano Caccamo, Lucia Vasini, Lorenzo Lavia, Paolo Triestino, Valentina Bartolo, Angela Finocchiaro, Bruno Stori, Giuliana De Sio, Alessandro Haber, Lunetta Savino, Paolo Sassanelli, Lucia Zotti.

Lecce. Attention to the times of compulsive web communication, gaming addictions, the inner gaze and knowing how to be grateful to others, old age, family, the fear of getting lost. These are the great themes of the 2023_24 theater season of the Municipality of Lecce with the Pugliese Public Theater which will take place in Paisiello and Apollo theaters from November 29th. A program that will not be limited to the theater within the theater, but which as always will involve the public of students and children, with a series of already tested and successful initiatives (children's workshop - side boxes and reduced ticket formulas for groups - see attachments). Four shows at the Paisiello Theatre, eight at the Apollo Theatre, for a total of twelve titles.

Will Fabrizio Pugliese and Fabrizio Saccomanno to open the dance on November 29th at the Paisiello theater, in the story of the genius of Ennio De Giorgi, one of the greatest Italian mathematicians of Lecce origins: Verba Manent-singing for Ennio De Giorgi. Co-production with the Mathematics Department of the University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, UMI Unione Matematica Italiana and with the collaboration of the University of Salento.

Also at Paisiello, on 13 December, the Company of the Sun, direction Marinella Anaclerio, with The Gambler, by Carlo Goldoni, very current play on the mental mechanisms of the pathological gambler, on the consequences of gambling addictions, the involvements and upheavals of the social environment around. With Stella Addario, Flavio Albanese, Antonella Carone, Patrizia Labianca, Loris Leoci, Tony Marzolla, Luigi Moretti, Dino Parrotta, Domenico Piscopo.

The new year will open at the Apollo Theater on January 9th Imma Tataranni, Vanessa Scalera in a job of Philip Gil (his partner in life): The best sister, with Daniela Marra, Giovanni Anzaldo, Michela Martini, the direction of Francesco Frangipane. Intense and passionate family drama, between guilt and remorse in a mix of feelings and reflections.

On January 20th at the Apollo Theater sociopathy will be on stage, They don't have a friend, with Luca Bizzarri, author and performer of a one-hour drum-beating show inspired by the podcast of the same name published by Middle Chora. It talks about political communication of our times, social phenomena, the customs of a new millennium confused between the nostalgia of the twentieth century and the desire for technological and social innovation.

Existential and impactful The two Popes (January 26-Teatro Apollo) two columns of theater and TV, Giorgio Colangeli, Mariano Rigillo, direction Giancarlo Nicoletti, theatrical text from which a very successful Netflix film was made. Between historical document, humor and drama, the show traces not only the frenetic days that led from the resignation of Benedict to the election of Francis, but also the “parallel lives” of two very different men, united by the same destiny.

The novel is also beautiful Our souls at night di Kent Haruf from which the show on February 3 at the Apollo Theater is based Lella Costa and Elia Schilton. Widows over seventy, who live alone a few meters away, and who decide to share the rest of their lives, but at night, in fact, just to be together and chat in the dark before giving in to sleep. But society is not ready to grant those entering the third stage of life a romantic dream.

On February 13th we are at the Paisiello Theatre, Francesco Montanari, Cristiano Caccamo.
Sixth estate - Birth of a democracy violated by hatred, money and revenge, written and directed by Davide Sacco and with two other actors. The sixth power, the web, much more subtle, much more base, slips between smartphones, in Facebook notifications and in Instagram stories. An invisible power, like the one who commands it is always invisible and is always unknown why he does it. A danger in our hands, a continuous brainwashing, perhaps, a power from which none of us can escape. Three boys work for the right-wing party: they create fake news to manipulate the electoral campaign.

Gratitudes at the Apollo Theater on 22 February (with Lucia Vasini, Lorenzo Lavia, Paolo Triestino, Valentina Bartolo), from Delphine's novel DeVigan. Exam on how many times we say, if we say it, thank you. A disruptive hymn to life, where four existences intertwine in a wonderful crossroads of feelings, passions, regrets. Visionary, metaphysical The giant squid, on March 19 at the Apollo Theater, with Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori and eight performers. If the giant squid exists in the world, then there is no longer a dream that is unachievable, an unattainable battle, an impossible love. The waves of life that overturn a woman's journey in a vortex outside the world and space.

On April 5th at the Apollo Theater: Giuliana De Sio, Alessandro Haber, The Tuesday lady, Massimo Carlotto with Paolo Sassanelli, Riccardo Festa, Samuele Fragiacomo, directed by Pierpaolo Sepe. Stolen love, the love that manages to arise even in occasional situations, the story of Nana who every Tuesday, between 3pm and 4pm, goes to buy an hour of love and a porn actor at sunset left with this one client.

The last two shows: April 16th at the Apollo Theater: Lunetta Savino ne Florian Zeller's mother; the theme of maternal love and its possible pathological consequences, the decline of conjugal love.

The season ends at the Paisiello Theater on April 23rd, Paolo sassanelli (already in season with Haber and De Sio) e Lucia Zotti (actress from Bari also known to the general TV audience as the nice mother of Imma Tataranni) are directed by Alessandro Piva, again to directing and writing for theater (director of the films Lacapagira and Mio cognato): Just enough.A day like many others for an elderly married couple from the small bourgeoisie of the city. A one-act play in which Piva alternates comic and surreal tones with moments of melancholic poetry, and now the portrait of two human beings in which the viewer cannot help but identify.