Esterino, shows in Rome

Comedy by Marco Rinaldi for adults and children

Category: Shows
From 02/05/2024 to 12/05/2024
Off/Off Theatre
Via Giulia 19, 20, 21 – Rome (RM) (Centre)

ESTERINO, a show written by Marco Rinaldi and directed by Paolo Vanacore, makes its world premiere at the Teatro 7 Off, from 2 to 12 May.

Esterino is a comedy for adults and children, the unusual questions of a curious and lively eight-year-old boy throw the world of adults (and psychoanalysis) into crisis with their overwhelming truth. Esterino is eight years old and has the ability to put children in difficulty. adults with his constant questions and his invincible logic. After having completely accidentally favored his death, Esterino will begin a dream journey to avoid the definitive separation from his beloved Grandfather Lello, always in the balance between the dream (which is ultimately a dialogue with himself) and the reality of the sessions of psychotherapy with the wretched and incompetent Doctor Bellachioma to whom Esterino’s parents turned worriedly after their son told them of some phantom nocturnal encounters with his deceased grandfather. After the success of “The Great Grabski” Marco Rinaldi returns to “massacre” the world of psychoanalysis in a merciless and grotesque way with the irreverent complicity of a child to whom, with the excuse of childhood, everything (or almost everything) is granted ask. Dream and reality chase each other on the stage at a rapid pace, offering lots, lots of laughter, and a few moments of tenderness.

SYNOPSIS: Esterino is eight years old, he is an only child. Grandfather Lello, old and absent-minded, is Esterino’s only true emotional point of reference, who confides in him and with whom he has fun, especially listening to the abstruse stories of his mysterious and dubious stay in Africa (in the jungle there are trees high up to the sky, vines, peppers and watermelons, peppers are as big as watermelons, watermelons are small). Another family mystery is the grandfather’s old extramarital relationship with a certain Mrs. Fiorella, of whom Esterino only knows that, as grandmother Rina says, “if she wasn’t there we were rich”. Grandfather Lello dies, but Esterino cannot do without him, so he makes him return to dreams, during which he tries to understand many things about life, and also about the afterlife, which Don Panetta’s catechism lessons provided him with little and confusing information. Grandfather answers all the questions in his own way, but always vanishes as soon as Esterino asks about Mrs. Fiorella. The child does not speak to his family about his nocturnal meetings with his grandfather, but lets slip just enough to alarm his parents, who entrust him to the care of a psychologist. Thus begins, with the fierce nocturnal opposition of the grandfather (either you talk to me or you talk to him), a therapeutic journey with Doctor Bellachioma, a rather scoundrel professional who often gets into great difficulty due to Esterino’s iron logic. In the doctor’s office there is a large photo of Freud. During the sessions, Doctor Bellachioma, with simple words, tries to explain to Esterino the concepts of Id, Ego and Superego (in you there are three children, one who does things, one who controls, and another who does as it seems to him because no one sees him) to make him understand that the grandfather of the dreams does not exist until it happens that in the dreams Nonno Lello and Doctor Bellachioma meet and above all they clash, each trying to destroy the other in the eyes of Esterino. The battleground is represented by Sofia, a little girl with whom Esterino is in love but who however “loves” another child (unlikeable, because beautiful ones like unpleasant ones) the two will compete for the child’s approval by helping him to complete the much desired engagement. This time, however, Grandfather greets Esterino differently, letting him understand that he will no longer be able to visit him again (has Mrs. Fiorella arrived in heaven?). Grandpa Lello doesn’t answer, he gives him a kiss – he had never done it even when he was alive – and gives him his furry slippers (don’t give them to anyone, they’re comfortable, you’ll wear them when you grow up) and the dream magically becomes reality .

EXTERIOR
by Marco Rinaldi
with Riccardo Bàrbera, Roberto D’Alessandro, Antonello Pascale
directed by Paolo Vanacore
original music Alessandro Panatteri – sets Alessandro Chiti – lighting design Camilla Piccioni – photos and graphics Manuela Giusto
assistant director Cinzia Corsetti?

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