Luca Marinelli protagonist of the preview of the Festiva dei Due Mondi. The Roman actor returns to Spoleto as a director with A report for an Academya theatrical transposition of Franz Kafka’s famous story from 1917. This show was already staged for the first time at the Due Mondi last year, when it met with enormous success.
Luca Marinelli returns to Spoleto Protagonist once again A report for an Academy a magnetic Fabian Jung which lands at the Caio Melisso-Spazio Fendi for four performances from Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June (tickets from 15 to 45 euros on the website www.festivaldispoleto.vivaticket.it). «What the public will hear – explains Marinelli – is a re-proposal of the dynamic that Kafka recounts at the beginning of his text: this monkey who has entered the world of men five years ago and is starting to master the “word”. But monkeys hear with their bellies and do not have mastery of the language. Fabian doesn’t speak Italian and for us this was a fundamental aspect and a fun starting point.”
His is the preview of the Festival dei Due Mondi Rot Peter is the name of the monkey to which Kafka gives voice in 1917 with a short story: Peter is captured and, during his imprisonment, he understands that he can imitate men very well and guarantee his freedom. After five years the anthropologists find themselves listening to a monkey transformed into an academic speaker. «When I met Fabian ten years ago I immediately thought that he was perfect for this role. I fell in love with him being on stage. We started thinking about how to bring Kafka’s text to the stage, even if we still didn’t know which of us should interpret it. Then I understood that the role was Fabian’s because it was stimulating for me to watch him while he played it, it was natural for me to come down from the stage to guide him.” Jung adds «The monkey is a fighter, it is up to the public to decide whether it will be a winner or a loser. For the monkey there is no other possibility than to continue along the path he has traced.”
