Dostoevsky's Player on stage at the Bellini Theater in Naples

At the Bellini Theater in Naples, the national premiere of "The Player", the famous masterpiece by Dostoevskij, directed by Gabriele Russo, is staged

Al Bellini Theater of Naples Once again, the great dramatized literature is staged, bringing the show to the stage "Player", the masterpiece written in the 1866 from Fëdor Dostoevskij, in an adaptation by Vitaliano Trevisian and directed by Gabriele Russo, on stage from the 14 26 March 2017.

After the staging of "A Clockwork Orange", based on the novel by Anthony Burgess and directed by Gabriele Russo, and "Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest", based on the novel by Ken Kesey and directed by Alessandro Gassmann, the Bellini Theater is once again producer of another unpublished show based on the work of one of the greatest authors of the late nineteenth century and directed by Gabriele Russo.

Player it is the third stage of what the Bellini Theater has defined as the “Trilogy of freedom”, that is, the three shows through which the concept of freedom and its loss have been addressed. And after dealing with the visionary, violent and dystopian society of "A Clockwork Orange" and with the oppressive psychiatric hospital of "Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest", the Roulettenburg dominated by the Dostoevsky's game.

The rehearsals of the show The Player at the Bellini Theater in Naples

During the rehearsals of the show “Il Player” at the Bellini Theater in Naples. Photo by F. Squeglia.

The famous drama was written in 1866 in only 29 days by one Dostoevsky pressed by gambling debts and that he had to respect a firm commitment with his publisher, under penalty of losing the rights to all his works. A "bet in the bet" won by the writer who succeeded in the enterprise, respecting the deadline and delivering his great masterpiece to the whole world.

The text represents a real one anthropological and social analysis of gambling and issues treated are the obsessions, weaknesses, passion and compulsion of the characters of the story, such as Aleskej (the protagonist, played by Daniele Russo), Polina and Bianca, also facing situations very similar to contemporary ones.

The installation by Gabriele Russo it reflects their hardships and their weaknesses and represents them like a Dantesque circle, dragging the influence in a spiral made up of gambling, passions and compulsions “Which leads straight to that (non) place where desire turns into obsession and is no longer limited to governing the protagonists, but ends up subjugating them”.