Goldoni, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Verdi, but also Toni Servillo, Emma Dante and the return of A Clockwork Orange among the shows not to be missed in Naples in March 2016!
If you live in Naples and you love theater or want to get as close as possible to this wonderful art, the month of March 2016 is the one for you! Lots of shows on stage in the Neapolitan theaters that will enrich your heart and your minds between faithful and contemporary reinterpretations of the classics of world theater and performances of new drama not to be missed!
Napolike recommends you, like every month, the best shows not to be missed in Naples for the month of March 2016, for the genre Prose, Opera and Ballet. Among them classics of international fame such as Goldoni, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Shaw, Verdi, but also the Neapolitan culture like The rest of nothing of Striano e Toni Servillo, the return of Clockwork Orange ed Emma Dante with his new show Burlesque operetta.
Teatro Mercadante
it bugiardo
The famous comedy of Carlo Goldoni, inspired by the "Verdad sospechosa" by the Spanish Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, directed by Alfredo Arias. A text that, with the style that characterizes the Venetian playwright made of dialect and masks, tries to convey a daily teaching: to make people understand how, in reality, lies are only a tool that in any case turns against liars.
Date: from 8 to 13 March 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 30 euro
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Candid
The English author Mark Ravenhill brings on stage a contemporary reinterpretation of the famous work Candid ou l'optimisme by Voltaire. Candide is an optimist, a dreamer, who believes that everything will be for the best; then suddenly the world, which he thought was the best it could possibly be, begins to collapse around him. And what luck can optimism in our century have?
Date: from 15 to 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 30 euro
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San Ferdinando Theater
Pygmalion
The famous text of George Bernard Shaw in the translation of Manlio Santanelli and for the direction of Benedetto Sicca. A reinterpretation that tells the adventures of Dr. Higgins in a new key, “Eternal son who pretends to become a Father without assuming responsibility, trying to mold reality to the models in which he is stuck”.
Date: from 2 to 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 30 euro
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Reduced
Development of Donna Lionora
Second "episode" of the theatrical trilogy inspired by The rest of nothing, the famous work by Enzo Striano that tells about the life of Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca, protagonist of the Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Development of Donna Lionora tells, through a subjective look, the entry of Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel in the adult season of its existence.
Date: from 10 to 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro
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Teatro Bellini
Hamlet Travestie
The company Punta Corsara, a business project in the Neapolitan district of Scampia, brings to the stage Hamlet Travestie, a masterful mix of John Poole's work of the same name, a nineteenth-century parody of Shakespeare's Hamlet, with Antonio Petito's Don Fausto. A highly original work that tells the story of a Neapolitan family today: the Barilottos.
Date: from 8 to 13 March 2016
Price tickets: from 12 to 28 euros
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Clockwork Orange
For the third consecutive year the show is staged based on the novel that Anthony Burgess wrote in 1962 and from which the famous and homonymous film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. Here, with the direction of Gabriele Russo, the interpretation of Daniele Russo and the eccentric music of Morgan, we take the opportunity to tell, through the story of Alex and his friends Drughi, a society increasingly inclined to control consciences and indoctrination towards a "single thought". With the intent to ask questions and to shake consciences.
Date: from 18 to 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 15 to 28 euros
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Burlesque operetta
The Sicilian director Emma Dante returns to the Bellini Theater to present his Burlesque operetta. Set, as in all his works, in southern Italy, here we tell the story of Pietro, a man of about forty who still lives with his parents, in the Neapolitan province, on the slopes of Vesuvius. A man trapped in a man's body who, for the first time, will have to face a love that has finally been reciprocated ...
Date: from 29 March to 3 April 2016
Price tickets: from 12 to 28 euros
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Little Bellini
Interior scenes after the breakup of the European Union
Two people are forced to hide at home because they are wanted by the authorities. They are accused of causing the breakup of the European Union. What are the reasons why the United Europe fell apart? It will be discovered that one of the two was expecting nothing else and that he is really among the main culprits of the fall of the European Union ...
Date: from 8 to 13 March 2016
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euros
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Novantadue - Falcone and Borsellino 20 years later
Claudio Fava brings on stage a poetic reflection on a black page of the history of our country: the assassination of Falcone and Borsellino which took place in the summer of 1992, “The tragedy of two ordinary men, called by their stubborn nature to an extraordinary and impossible mission: to clean up Sicily (and Italy) from the mafia”.
Date: from 15 to 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euros
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New Theatre
Shakespea King of Naples
"From a careful reading of the verses it can be deduced that the young friend" ... with deep dreamy eyes ... "for whom Shakespeare raised his poignant song, must have been a person capable of representing a vital factor for the evolution of art dramaturgy of the great William. WH, then, emerges from the depths of his secular mystery: he is the child actor of Shakespeare's theater: he who, as Wilde writes, was the first and unforgettable interpreter of Viola, Desdemona, Rosalinda, Juliet. In Shakespea King of Naples the mystery of the Sonnets deepens in a story in which the ancient suggestions linked to Willie Huges and the child actor of the Elizabethan theater, result in a story that, in the imagination and in the imaginative force, takes root for a pure poetic intuition on the nature of Sonnets "
Date: from 2 to 6 March 2016
Price tickets: from 15 to 20 euro
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Neighbors
“The Neighbors is a play about our fears. About our imaginary fears, about our real fears. About our real fears which are our imaginary fears. It is a play about ourselves, about others, about ourselves and others, about distant neighbors, about war, about what is real, about what is imagined, about what is real because it is imagined. A bit like certain ghosts, a bit like certain theater ”.
Date: from the 16 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 15 to 20 euro
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Toni Servillo reads Naples
Travel in the words of Naples through the voice of Toni Servillo, from Salvatore Di Giacomo to Raffaele Viviani, from Eduardo to Totò, up to the contemporaries Enzo Moscato, Mimmo Borrelli and Maurizio De Giovanni. An identity, the Neapolitan one, forged by four centuries of literature ...
Date: 30 from March to April 3 2016
Price tickets: from 15 to 20 euro
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Teatro San Carlo
Falstaff
The last work of Giuseppe Verdi, composed on a libretto by Arrigo Boito and directed by Luca Ronconi (shot by Marina Bianchi). The libretto was taken from The cheerful wives of Windsor by Shakespeare, with some passages also taken from Henry IV, the historical drama in which for the first time the figure of sir John Falstaff.
Date: from the 13 20 March 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 120 euro
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