A man tries to get on stage and realize his lifelong dream: meeting a well-known theater manager to get to know him and convince him to get hired. On a day of nervous quiet, a short break from the bombings during the Second World War, in the back of a small provincial theater, “The war ruined me” with Arianna Gambaccini And Michele Cipriani, text and direction by Arianna Gambaccini, a co-production between Coop. Crest di Taranto and Compagnia Malalingua, with the support of Trac – Apulian artistic residency center project 2022, which will debut on Saturday 29 June at 9pm and Sunday 30 June at 8pm at the Cittadella degli Artisti in Molfetta, as part of the “Contemporary Trame” festival (artistic direction by Marianna de Pinto and Marco Grossi).
The story
“The war ruined me” is the story of the parallel lives of the artists of yesterday and today. It is the story of two souls struggling with two different wars who share the same “trauma”: emptiness and “failure” (or what they believe to be such). It is a tribute to the world of vaudeville, which was able to transform suffering and hunger into collective, popular and liberating laughter. It is a story that speaks of the actor’s hunger, of stage cholera and of the universal need of others.
Passing through cartoons, sketches, and songs by the author, “A me m’ha ruino la war” is the demonstration that one’s dreams must be realized without ever becoming slaves to them, and that the power of beauty is something that goes beyond, even of death.
The true story of the Cipriani family
A show that draws on the family history of Michele Cipriani, nephew of the vaudeville actor of the same name between the 30s and 40s of the last century, signed by Comedian Arturo Vetrani’s Compagnia di Rivista, where he found himself sharing the stage with the Maggio brothers, Pietro de Vico and many others.
