From Shakespeare to Molière, from the rhymes of Ariosto to Neil Simon and Tennessee Williams, the return of Autonomous Dignity of Prostitution and of the duo Rezza / Mastrella
Very rich the theatrical bill of the month of February 2014 in Naples. There are many performances scheduled for the category Prose, Opera and Ballet, and all of an excellent quality level.
They return to the scenes, after the success at the Napoli Teatro Festival 2013, The Taming of the Shrew of Shakespeare e Circus Equestre Sgueglia of Viviani, Lello Arena brings “his” Molière's Miser to the Acacia Theater, the record show continues at the Bellini Theater Autonomous Dignity of Prostitution, and Stefano Accorsi returns to "play" with Ariosto's rhymes at the Teatro Nuovo.
Here, then, are Napolike's suggestions on the best theatrical performances to see in Naples, dedicated to all those who love prose, to stimulate their critical sense. If, on the other hand, you love Comedy and Musical, take a look at ours Dedicated address book!
Stable Theater of Naples
Teatro Mercadante
The Taming of the Shrew
After the success of the world premiere presented at the last Napoli Teatro Festival, it is staged at the Teatro Mercadante The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, signed by the Russian master, and Hollywood director, Andrej Konchalovskij. Between atmospheres and settings that evoke Italy in the XNUMXs, references to the Commedia dell'Arte and an all-Italian cast, for a Shakespearean comedy that "Represents Italy more than Romeo and Juliet".
Date: from the 29 January to the 2 February 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The Taming of the Shrew
The irresistible boys
Tullio Solenghi ed Eros Pagni they are the protagonists of this masterpiece of Neil Simon which tells of the return to the limelight of two former comedians, a successful couple with forty years of career then forced to separate. They will meet again to re-propose the sketch that made them famous, but there will be many obstacles to overcome. A fun stage show for two comedians and that will revive the splendor of the American vaudeville.
Date: from the 29 February to the 9 March 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The irresistible boys
San Ferdinando Theater
Baudelaire's birthday
The personal and literary life of Charles Baudelaire evoked by the imaginary dialogue that the publisher Auguste Poulet Malassis has with him who goes to his bedside, recalling episodes, events, curiosities, revelations and poetic concepts that emerged from the homonymous story written by Luca Cedrola, to which the show is inspired.
Date: from the 14 to the 16 February 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Baudelaire's birthday
Circus Equestre Sgueglia
One of the best known texts of Raffaele Viviani brought to the world premiere by the Argentine director Alfredo Arias for the Napoli Teatro Festival 2013. The text tells the story of a community of circus performers, a universal metaphor of a poor and precarious world. And the scene becomes a circus, complete with trapeze artists, jugglers and sideshows ...
Date: from the 19 February to the 2 March 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Circus Equestre Sgueglia
Reduced Room
The lost harmony - Guappo and other animals
The project dedicated to theatrical performances inspired by the writer and theatrical author continues Raffaele La Capria, with the second "chapter" of the review, focused on secret bond that binds man and nature and which is now in danger of being definitively severed. The dialogue between man and animal is set in front of one of the many tanks that imprison the freedom of the fish, in the shadowy corridors of the 'Anton Dohrn' Zoological Station in Naples.
Date: from the 28 January to the 2 February 2014
Price tickets: 16,20 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Guappo and other animals
New Theatre
Chronicle of an announced crisis
Chronicle of European liberal economic thought, from the 60s to the present day, through a live set for piano, voice and guitar. The "crisis" as a constitutive defect of the current configuration of market finance, with increasingly worse living conditions, and increasingly impotent governments. Between musical moments, interludes built on the canvas of the commedia dell'arte that involve the viewer and push him to reflect. And to act.
Date: from the 7 to the 9 February 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Chronicle of an announced crisis
Marco Paolini e Francesco Niccolini they dedicate a show-reflection on the figure of Galileo Galilei, one of the most brilliant scientific minds ever existed, but who lived in doubt until the end of his life. Why did superstition beliefs have surpassed reason? Why do we go back to looking at the stars and believing in horoscopes? Why is magic and chance back to governing the future?
Date: from the 18 to the 23 February 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Itis Galileo
Stefano Accorsi e Marco Baliani bring back to the scene the "carousel" of the fairytale wandering of theOrlando Furioso, after the success of the 2012 del Furious Orlando. Among monologues, dialogues, narrations, all strictly rhyming, respecting Ludovico Ariosto, to conquer “Love and love, love hunted down, betrayed, wrong, love loved, forgotten, always hindered, until the merry-go-round is dyed red for Orlando's enraged love from jealousy possessed”.
Date: from the 26 February to the 2 March 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Playing with Orlando
Toledo Gallery
We were enough to make flies laugh
Two voices compared, that of a Neapolitan clown who is exiled in Paris, and that of his father, faced in an intimate and realistic dialogue. The son questions his identity as an artist and a man, the father answers his questions, thanks to his long life experience.
Date: from the 6 February 9 February 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show We were enough to make flies laugh
The contract
Based on a 1967 play by Eduardo De Filippo, the show tells the story of an impostor who takes advantage of relationships with people, the fear of death and the greed of others. Each act represents an episode in itself and an investigation on the individual (Act I), the affects (Act II), society (Act III).
Date: from the 12 to the 23 February 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The contract
Teatro Bellini
Rimzza / Mastrella in 7-14-21-28
The actor and director return to the Bellini Theater in Naples Antonio Rezza and his faithful collaborator and companion, even in life, Flavia Mastrella, to present a new show, as always extravagant and one of a kind. Between suggestive atmospheres and an acting that goes beyond the description and illustration of reality, but becomes the spokesperson for a parallel universe full of enigmatic and mysterious meanings.
Date: from the 12 to the 16 February 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show 7-14-21-28
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Autonomous Dignity of Prostitution
The doors of the "Closed House of Art" by Autonomous Dignity of Prostitution, a record theatrical format created by Luciano Melchionna, whose protagonists are the actors / prostitutes at the complete mercy of the spectator, who can buy the "pills of theatrical pleasure" offered by them. To "enjoy" the art of theater in a new and original way, which restores one in the public "Amazement again solicited".
Date: until February 9 2014
Price tickets: from 17 to 21 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Autonomous Dignity of Prostitution
Inspired by the famous comedy of Carlo Goldoni which sees as protagonists Arlecchino, Pantalone and Brighella, the masks of the Commedia dell'Arte, the director Antonio Latella it brings out the lies, the falsehoods and the commercialization of souls and feelings. “If we remove the jumps, the ornaments, the mechanical acting made of sound but never of text and subtext, if we remove the masks, what remains? The void, perhaps the horror of our contemporaneity ".
Date: up to 18 at 23 February 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The servant of two masters
Suddenly, last summer
From a text by Tennessee Williams and brought on stage by Elio De Capitani, the story takes place in the glasshouse of Mrs. Venable, made by son Sebastian, who died "Suddenly last summer". Here a neurologist tries to cure Catherine, the woman's nephew, from the hallucinations and hysteria she is suffering after having witnessed the death of her cousin Sebastian, of whom she remembers nothing, and of which gradually emerge scabrous details.
Date: from 25 February to 2 March 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Suddenly, last summer
Little Bellini
NEFES / Respiro_ Every Human being is an Artist_
Breath is part of a two-year project on the artistic work of Joseph Beuys. "Every man is an artist", an expression that defines the concept of art closely linked to the creative commitment that must and can be of everyone, able to shape their existence and the world in which they live ...
Date: from the 14 to the 16 February 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show nefes
The new show of XX who is female - Children of the Bronx, which brings out the relationship of each of us with sexuality, and that comes from interviews collected here and there to different women on sex. The contents will be an integral part of this extravagant and original theatrical show that teaches us that sex is part of everyone, essential and indispensable.
Date: from 20 to 23 February and from 27 February to 2 March 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Secret Passage
Acacia Theater
The miser
Lello Arena he will play one of the most famous characters in Moliére's dramaturgy, the miser Arpagone. Between subterfuge, cheating, spite, theft and intrigue to the detriment of his own children, to protect his sacred wealth, of which he is very jealous guardian, and the very reason for his life.
Date: from the 20 to the 23 February 2014
Price tickets: from 24 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The miser
