The 2023/24 Bari theater season was presented at the Teatro Comunale Piccinni. Romeo and Juliet will be on stage from 9 to 12 November 2023.

The 2023/24 Bari theater season was presented at the Teatro Comunale Piccinni. Romeo and Juliet will be on stage from 9 to 12 November 2023.

Da Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th November on the stage of the Piccinni theater in Bari on stage "Romeo and Juliet" (Romeo and Julieta) by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by the Apulian director Michelangelo Campanale as part of the Altri Mondi 2023_24 theater season of the Municipality of Bari - Department of Cultures organized together with the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese. An international, multilingual co-production by the company La Luna nel Letto of Ruvo di Puglia, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale and Teatro Excelsior of Bucharest. The show, in Italian, English and Romanian (subtitled in Italian), will be staged Thursday 9 November at 19pm, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 November at 21pm and Sunday 12 November at 18pm.
The recitation of Saturday 11 November will be brought forward to 19.00 pm, in the foyer of the Piccinni theatre, from a public meeting with the protagonists of the production, moderated by the theater critic and researcher Sergio Lo Gatto.

Speakers::

Ines Pierucci, Councilor for Culture of Bari, Monica Filograno, Councilor for Culture of Ruvo di Puglia, Giulia Delli Santi, director of theatrical activities of the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Julia Pantus, representative of the Italian-Romanian association Concordia Populorum, Maria Rotar, director of the Teatro Excelsior company in Bucharest and Michelangelo Campanale, director and artistic director of La Luna nel Letto company.

The award-winning company La Luna nel Letto, active since 2002 in productions for adults and children, faces, together with a selected group of actors from the Excelsior Theater led by the artistic director Maria Rotar, Shakespeare's drama about love: Romeo and Juliet comes back to life on the stage thanks to the powerful interpretation of 13 artists belonging to two distant worlds, Romania and Italy. Two factions, real clans, the Italian Capulets and the Romanian Montagues, represent the clash between different languages ​​and cultures, whose only possibility of integration is the love of two teenagers.

“Romeo and Juliet tells how the hatred of adults can kill any form of change for the young generations – he explains Michelangelo Campanale -. Romeo speaks in Italian, the language of the Capulets, only when he addresses Juliet and in that case it is a game of seduction aimed at her but also at the audience who, in seeing a character who shows his fragility in a language that is not his, becomes instinctively takes his side. And we entrusted lines in Romanian to Juliet in order to create a linguistic counterweight also on the Capulets' side. The two boys are the windows that open onto each other's world and it makes sense that they exchange languages ​​while the families remain closed in their own language."

In beautiful Verona, between two large families, the fight breaks out: from their ancient hatred new riots arise and the blood of brothers flows beyond the insults. Children of those enemies, with no other way out, two lovers, marked by the stars, take their own lives. From the prologue of the text begins a restitution of Shakespeare's words in English, in all their original strength, which still resonate, punctuated by the voices at the microphone, like epic or sacred narratives: the heart and wonder of this writing are entrusted to the presence equally strong as the actors, who dialogue in the space of an essential scene made dynamic by the energy of the bodies.
In this version of Romeo and Juliet, constructed as a great ritual, we talk about love, but issues very close to us also emerge, such as the relationships between adults and adolescents, the clash between cultures, the insurmountable border dictated by prejudice and rejection of diversity, war.

The company La Luna nel Letto is a production company, recognized by the Ministry of Culture, in the fields of children's theater and prose; manages the Municipal Theater of Ruvo di Puglia, home to one of the centers of the "Pugliese Residency Centre", with multidisciplinary activities that intertwine creation, programming and training. Michelangelo Campanale is the director of the company: craftsman, light designer, stage and photography technician, set designer, trainer and teacher, he is also the artistic director of the Theatre.
The Excelsior Theater in Bucharest, founded in 1990 by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and subsidized by the Bucharest Municipality, is a public cultural institution, which boasts a permanent company of more than 80 people. It is a space open to creativity, which encourages dialogue between generations, different art forms and cultures.

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Julieta)

From the work of William Shakespeare, adaptation Michelangelo Campana, direction and sets Michelangelo Campanale, lighting Michelangelo Volpe and Michelangelo Campanale with Catia Caramia (Juliet), Dan Pughineanu (Romeo), Maria Pascale (Juliet's Mother), Camelia Pintilie (Romeo's Mother ), Salvatore Marci (Juliet's Father), Ovidiu Ușvat (Romeo's Father), Mircea Alexandru Băluță (Tybalt), Mihai Mitrea (Mercutio), Alex Popa (Benvolio), Andreea Hristu (Juliet's Nurse), Annarita De Michele (Juliet's Nurse of Romeo), Andrea Bettaglio (Priest), Domenico Piscopo (Paris) care of the scenic movement Vito Cassano, care of the text Katia Scarimbolo, assistant director Annarita De Michele, technical direction Michelangelo Volpe
stage technician Antonio Longo; costumes Maria Pascale, project manager Maria Rotar, production manager Antonella Nitti and Delia Tondo, press office Serena Manieri, visual designer Mariagrazia Proietto, social media Paolo Paparella, thanks to Isa Pellegrini, Annalisa Bellini, Giorgio Testa, Giulia Gaudimundo, Raul Nappi , Arianna Baroni, a production by Compagnia La Luna nel Letto, Teatro Excelsior in Bucharest and Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale
The trailer

Info www.teatropubblicopugliese.it
Tickets: starting from 15 euros, available at the Piccinni Theater box office.
Tickets online: https://www.vivaticket.com/it/Ticket/romeo-e-giulietta-romeo-si-julieta-regia-di-m-campanale/220428