LECCE – INSIDE, THE THEATER, the series of shows open to the external public promoted by the Mediterranean Actor Academy of Lecce and the Lecce Prison, is nearing its conclusion.
Friday 21 June at 5pm goes on stage Comedy gold of and with Flavio Albanesea show on the history of Italian Comedy: a journey back in time that starts from Bruno Bozzetto’s cartoons and takes the viewer through the political, social and cultural history of Italy, to the dawn of Commedia dell’Arte.
Making leaps back in time, Flavio Albanese analyzes a style and an actor in particular for each century: the twentieth century is dedicated to the Variety and Petrolini; the nineteenth century is the century of Neapolitan families, starting with Antonio Petito, the very famous Pulcinella, up to Eduardo; the eighteenth century is the century of Goldoni and his reform; finally the seventeenth century, with the Commedia dell’Arte, allows us to discover the habits and techniques of comedians such as Francesco Andreini (the famous Captain Spaventa) and to tell the world of masks and comedian companies.
Great anticipation for the debut of the show TO DEATH with the student-actors of Bow Tie Theatrethe company formed by inmates of the Lecce prison who attended the permanent theater workshop promoted since 2019 by AMA-Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore.
The show is loosely based on The intermittences of death by Josè Saramago which starts from a question: what would happen if death wanted to take a break? What if, at a certain point, it got too close to the human?
The intermittences of death it is a contemporary fairy tale with grotesque tones, another brilliant work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago, which ironically recounts the weaknesses and contradictions of contemporary society. The show, born inside, proposes its atmospheres: poised between the tragic and the comic, as human existence has always been. Saramago’s novel constituted a “pre-text” for the student actors, a source from which to draw to nourish inspiration and create paintings, sew poems, images, sounds and music derived from the intimate bonds of their lives.
The construction of the choreographed paintings is the result of research on the music and popular rites of Southern Italy, in particular of Salento: from moroloja and songs in griko to fencing and pizzica dances, up to the parody of funeral rituals. What emerges is a web of threads knotted together: that of personal and, inevitably, universal feelings and experiences, but also a hymn to art and its power to thin and dissolve the boundaries between life and death.
On stage: Francesco Alfonzetti, Luigi Antonaci, Oreste Broglio, Angelo Cassano, Angelo Fago, Giovanni Lupoli, Cosimo Grimaldi, Domenico Manzi, Alessandro Morra, Mario Pagani, Francesco Vitale, Giovanni Volpe.
Direction, dramaturgy and concept: Carmen Ines Tarantino
Choreographies and musical research: Veronica Mele
Costumes: Made in prison
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