BITONTO – The tenth edition of www.Shakespeare – Week with William Shakespeare is coming to an end, a festival conceived and directed by the Compagnia Fatti d’Arte, winner of the public notice ‘Bitonto city of festivals 2023’ – Festival Network promoted by the Municipality of Bitonto . The Traetta Theater in Bitonto will host, from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 May, two productions by the Bitonto company: Willy’s and Vagina’s Monologues, a show that experiments with a connection between the sensitivity of Shakespearean heroines and the stories of the famous text by the American author Eve Ensler I Vagina monologues; and Shake Your Booty with Antonio Stornaiolo, in which the music and sound of the Seventies will be the pretext to tell – with irony – the troubled life of the most famous playwright in the world.
Double appointment, therefore, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May, 9.00 pm, with Willy’s and Vagina’s Monologues. Shakespeare anticipates his times, brings humanity onto the stage and translates the destinies of some of his heroines into reality; Often, however, his writings are permeated with the misogyny typical of his time, which is not far from the patriarchal vision of some of our ‘worlds’. This unbalanced vision between Man and Woman is translated into the title chosen for the Compagnia Fatti d’Arte show; the term ‘Willy’ gathers the double meaning of abbreviation of Shakespeare’s first name and of male phallus, while Vagina indicates the sexual specificity of the woman and represents the protagonist of Ensler’s most famous text. In a historical period like this, in which women still struggle to affirm their dignity and defend their rights, Fatti d’Arte feels the duty to break some taboos to reach an awareness: the vagina is the bearer of life, but also of death if it is “used” without consent; she is a harbinger of joy but also of pain when she is ‘abused’.
The festival will close on Sunday 12 May at 6pm with the Shake You Booty show. The matrix of the show is the seventies. The years of student revolts, of freedom of thought, of transgressions. The years of pop music, of flower children, of unexpressed realities in which new ideals emerge from a tangle of women and men whose thoughts emerge from a scenario that Shakespeare would have recited. Shake Your booty, the new Fatti d’Arte production with the participation of Antonio Stornaiolo, uses the sound borrowed from the Seventies to ironically narrate the troubled experience of the most famous playwright in the world through his ‘transgressive’ characters. The psychedelic melody of transgression will lead the unfortunate spectator to the knowledge of archetypal themes such as love, life and death thanks to the satirical flights of fancy starting from the works A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Enrico IV and The Tempest. A whirlwind of words and actions that will make you smile and reflect at the same time.
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