Goldoni, Strindberg, De Filippo, Beckett, Svevo and contemporary dramas staged in the theaters of Naples for the month of January 2016!
A new year has arrived and it will certainly be, like the previous ones, in the name of quality theater, thanks to shows staged in Naples in January 2016.
Once again the Neapolitan public will have the opportunity to go to the theater and spend unforgettable evenings and afternoons attending classical and contemporary dramas, choosing the prose and the opera realizing the desire for reflection on the life that is present in each of us. Like the big one Eduardo De Filippo he had the opportunity to affirm: “Theater is nothing but man's desperate effort to give meaning to life”.
Napolike suggests you start 2016 surrounded by art and culture, advising you the best shows on stage in the theaters of Naples, choosing among the great classics, such as Goldoni, Svevo, Beckett, De Filippo, Strindberg or the dramas of new contemporary authors and directors.
Happy New Year and good theater to all!
Teatro Diana
Servant for two
Pierfrancesco Favino directs and performs the adaptation of a theater classic, The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni, taken from One man, Two guvnors by the English playwright Richard Bean. The famous text is revisited in a modern key and set in the Rimini of the 30s, in a comic comedy, with actors / acrobats who fall down the stairs, slam doors, make two-way jokes and interact with the audience.
Date: from 13 to 26 January 2016
Price tickets: from 20 to 35 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Servant for two
Teatro Bellini
The word sings
Toni and Peppe Servillo they return to the Bellini to bring a real celebration of the beauty and magic of the tradition of Naples, through a concert, a recital, a party made up of music, poetry and songs. To accompany them the music of Solis String Quartet, which re-read the tradition in jazz, folk and pop, dragging the viewer on an extraordinary journey through the Neapolitan scenic culture.
Date: from 5 to 17 January 2016
Price tickets: from 16 to 35 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The word sings
Gospodin
Claudio Santamaria plays the bizarre character of Gennant Gospodin, born from the pen of the young German playwright Philipp Löhle. Gospodin is an anti-hero who stubbornly pursues the heroic intent of living by rejecting the concept of money, only by walking his lama, to collect some tips that guarantee his survival. The public is drawn into his surreal misadventures, between Greenpeace taking his lama from him, his girlfriend who leaves him taking away his furniture from his home and his best friend who appropriates his obsolete appliances to make contemporary art installations ...
Date: from 20 to 24 January 2016
Price tickets: from 15 to 28 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Gospodin
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Arturo Cirillo directs the famous drama written in 1962 by the American playwright Edward Albee and became one of the most represented shows on Broadway, also becoming a film adaptation with Richard Burton and Elisabeth Taylor under the direction of Mike Nichols. A drama about love, incommunicability and anguish in the relationship between couples.
Date: from 26 to 31 January 2016
Price tickets: from 12 to 28 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
Little Bellini
Key pain / Dangerously
Two unique acts of Eduardo De Filippo directed by Francesco Saponaro, Pain under the key, written in 1958 and represented as a radio play, starring Eduardo and his sister Titina, and Dangerously, a play from 1938 that plays on the classic marital quarrel, loading it with the tones of the grotesque.
Date: from 6 to 17 January 2016
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Key pain / Dangerously
Some Girl (s)
Back to the Piccolo Bellini the sentimental comedy written by Neil LaBute which tells the story of Guy, a boy who, before getting married, decides to fix, as the author himself tells us, «The mess he has combined in his love life along the road to his own maturity», meeting all the women in his life again ...
Date: from 20 to 24 January 2016
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Some Girl (s)
Teatro Mercadante
Miss Giulia
The Chilean director Cristián Plana he curated the staging of the famous drama by the Swedish author August Strindberg, Miss Giulia. Julie, a 25-year-old daughter of a count, decides to spend St John's evening at the servants' party, while her father is absent. The topics covered are the interaction between different social classes and between the male and female gender. The reinterpretation of Plana makes the work more disturbing and distressing, to convey more to the viewer the feelings and tormented moods of the characters.
Date: from 13 to 31 January 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 35 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Miss Giulia
San Ferdinando Theater
From the side of Zeno
Valeria Parrella she is the author of a text that "He looks at the most famous novel by Italo Svevo, precursor of the Italian fiction on psychoanalysis, and at those 'deep mental deposits' from which the young Swann draws, in tasting the famous madeleines of Marcel Proust's masterpiece". Directed by Andrea Renzi.
Date: from 13 to 31 January 2016
Price tickets: from 10 to 35 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show From the side of Zeno
New Theatre
He descends down to Toledo
Arturo Cirillo brings to the stage, after the success of the Napoli Teatro Festival, the novel written in 1975 by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, which tells the sad and funny life of Rosalinda Sprint, a Neapolitan transvestite in constant search for love ...
Date: from 15 to 17 January 2016
Price tickets: from 12 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show He descends down to Toledo
I've never told you about the North wind
Theatrical adaptation of the editorial case of the Austrian writer and journalist Daniel Glattauer which tells how a wrong email to the wrong address can trigger the spark between two complete strangers. Between Emmi Rothner - wife and irreproachable mother of the two children - and Leo Leike - psycholinguist recovering from yet another sentimental failure - a playful friendship is established, marked by complicity and irony, destined soon to evolve into a much more powerful feeling, which threatens to overwhelm both.
Date: from 20 to 24 January 2016
Price tickets: from 12 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show I've never told you about the North wind
Waiting for Godot
The most famous of the works of Samuel Beckett staged at the Teatro Nuovo under the direction of Maurizio Scaparro. The drama of the absurd par excellence, which conveys the impotent sense of waiting for the two vagabonds Vladimiro / Didi and Estragon / Gogo, emblem of the condition of the man of the twentieth century, perpetually waiting for hope, until the end of his days.
Date: from 27 to 31 January 2016
Price tickets: from 14 to 20 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Waiting for Godot
Teatro San Carlo
The happy widow
The famous operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár is staged at the Massimo Partenopeo, with libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, based on the comedy L'Attaché d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac (1861). Here in the staging of the San Carlo Theater, directed by Alfred Eschwé / Maurizio Agostini and directed by Federico Tiezzi. With the participation of Peppe Barra in the role of Njegus.
Date: from 22 January to 3 February 2016
Price tickets: from 20 to 120 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The happy widow
