THE GIANT SQUID with Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori at the Manzoni Theater in Milano
From the 13 25 2024 February
THE GIANT SQUID with Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori at the Manzoni Theater in Milano from the 13 to the 25 February 2024.
Enfi Teatro and Teatro Nazionale di Genova present, from 13 to 25 February 2024 at Manzoni Theater of Milano, Via Alessandro Manzoni, 40, 20121 Milano, the show “THE GIANT SQUID” with Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori.
Angela's life is absurd and incomprehensible, like that of each of us.
As a girl, many dreams and passions made her heart beat, but the rigid tracks of family and society led her to a situation that is like a bitter pill stuck in her throat, and goes neither up nor down.
Today more than ever: he was back to Milano for the office dinner, but the return of holidaymakers from the sea stops it in the queue towards Roncobilaccio. Angela curses all those people, she also curses the sea from which they return. And she still has her mouth open when an impossible wave takes her away, overwhelming and turning her life upside down.
In a vortex outside the world and space, where he finds himself wandering around together with a strange and old-fashioned guy, Montfort, who comes from another nation and another century, and they only have in common that they don't know how they ended up there.
Thus begins their journey, which wave after wave will force them to experience the adventures of women and men who instead had the courage to embrace the sea and life as a single, astonishing wonder.
Like Don Francesco Negri, a forty-year-old parish priest who in the seventeenth century left Ravenna and reached the North Pole on foot. Like little Tommy Piccot, a novice fisherman mistreated by his older colleagues, who in the moment of danger will be the only one with the courage to face the Great Unknown, and bring it before the eyes of the world. Together with them sailors from the Antilles, solitary custodians of provincial museums who resurrect animals that have been dead for millennia, dreamy kids oppressed by their classmates, grandmothers who talk to their dead husbands at dinner, girls who stop walking to avoid stepping on ants...
Unknown but fundamental lives, incredible but very true, linked by believing wholeheartedly in the existence of an animal so enormous and far from normality that for millennia it was considered a legend: the Giant Squid.
In their shoes, Angela and Montfort live their battles, are exhilarated by their triumphs and despair at the tragic ruins, in a story that darts across centuries and continents using all the languages offered by narration: images, scenography, music, dance …in a passionate embrace that reaches the hearts of all ages, from the young to those who are young at heart.
And if the giant squid exists in the world, then there is no longer a dream that is unachievable, an unattainable battle, an impossible love.
For Angela and Montfort, and for anyone who gets on board this show, which pushes us to move forward, or wherever the winds and currents and passions take us, to the surprising, funny, moving discovery of the wonders of Nature and therefore of us themselves. Because the most incredible story of all is reality.
ANGELA FINOCCHIARO and BRUNO STORI
THE GIANT SQUID
from the novel of the same name by Fabio Genovesi
adaptation by Fabio Genovesi, Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori
When:
weekdays 20,45pm – Sunday 15,30pm
Saturday 24 February at 15,30pm and 20,45pm
Regia Carlo Sciaccaluga
Music Rocco Tanica and Diego Maggi
with
Gennaro Apicella, Silvia Biancalana, Marco Buldrassi, Simone Cammarata, Sofia Galvan
Stefania Menestrina, Caterina Montanari, Francesca Santamaria Amato
scenes and costumes Anna Varaldo
drawing shine Gaetano La Mela
Video robin studio
Ideation sea creatures Alessandro Baronio
Beachwear Therefore Nanina Social and Community Cooperative
Installation director Daniele Donatini
Assistant director Silvia Biancalana
Assistant set designer Nina Donatini
TICKETS
Prestige €36,50 – Poltronissima €33,00 – Armchair €25,00 – Poltronissima under 26 years €16,00
For purchase:
- Theater ticket office
- online https://www.teatromanzoni.it/acquista-online/?event=3425728
- by telephone 027636901
- Ticketone circuit
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