Molière, Verga, Beckett, Eduardo, Pinter, Dostoevskij and Kafka among the authors of the shows staged in the theaters of Naples in January 2015
2015 begins in the name of quality theater, thanks to the shows scheduled in Neapolitan theaters. If the temperatures begin to drop, what better place to stay warm and witness the best dramaturgy of the present and the past, fulfilling the desire for culture and reflection on the life that is present in each of us?
Like the same big Eduardo He is saying: “Theater is nothing but man's desperate effort to give meaning to life”.
Napolike, as every month, therefore advises you the best shows on stage in the theaters of Naples, including an original version of the Don Govanni of Molière, an adaptation of Mastro Don Gesualdo of Verga, Match Final of Beckett, The voices inside by Eduardo directed by Servillo, and, again, Pinter, Dostoevskij and Kafka.
Teatro Diana
Don Giovanni
An original version, directed by Alessandro Preziosi, of a classic and timeless myth, but for the first time the exhibition shows us the creative process as it is supposed to have been designed by Da Ponte, with the visionary perspective of giving rise to something unexplored and to retrace with eyes contemporary the journey of those who preceded us. Here too Don Giovanni is the seductive figure shrouded in mystery who represents the emblem of a carefree joie de vivre, of sensual pleasure, of strategic intelligence placed at the service of deceptions and contempt for the irrational. Also on stage Nando Paone.
Date: until February 1, 2015
Price tickets: from 18 to 40 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Don Giovanni
Teatro Bellini
The voices inside
The famous Edwardian comedy "The voices within "Regia di Toni Servillo, with Toni and Peppe Servillo. A new and intense version of one of Eduardo's most "bitter" and ambiguous plays, "Where Eduardo, while maintaining an atmosphere suspended between reality and illusion, stirs with more decision and depth in the bad conscience of his characters, and therefore of the audience itself".
Date: until January 18, 2015
Price tickets: from 12 to 30 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The voices inside
Mastro Don Gesualdo
Theatrical version of the famous novel written in 1889 by Giovanni Verga and belonging to the cycle of the "vanquished". To direct the exhibition Guglielmo Ferro, who wanted to pay homage with this project to the theatrical adaptation of Mastro Don Gesualdo made by his father, Turi Ferro, in 1967. With a modern and current staging and the use of video projections, Ferro underlines the concept of "stuff" , the incessant and frenetic representation of a world dominated by extreme materialism, where there is no place for feelings, a world without space and time, in which the characters are 'photographed' like puppets.
Date: from 20 to 25 January 2015
Price tickets: from 12 to 30 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Mastro Don Gesualdo
Little Bellini
Arteriosclerosis
Dalia Frediani writes, directs and performs an extravagant show, Arteriosclerosi, which she herself ironically defines as “A set of things that I can't explain because I don't remember them. But on the stage they will come back to me because the stage has the magic of letting all ailments, including arteriosclerosis, pass, as soon as you cast it. I only know that it was supposed to be a monologue but, by monologizing monologizing I will have felt alone, and so today I find myself in the company of other actors ... I was in danger of turning it into a blockbuster !!! "
Date: until January 18, 2015
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Arteriosclerosis
Stable Theater of Naples
Autumn Symphony
On stage at the Teatro Mercadante one of the masterpieces of Ingmar Bergman, reproposed by Gabriele Lavia making use of the presence of an extraordinary and inimitable protagonist of the Italian scene, Anna Maria Guarneri. According to Lavia, one of the main knots of the drama is the sense of exclusion: “Being excluded… a feeling that Bergman must have known very well. A sentiment common to the 'actors', even to the 'concert performers'… common to those strange human beings who 'expose themselves', who 'are' on the stage. They have only one possibility of being: 'expose themselves' ”.
Date: from the 27 January to the 1 February 2015
Price tickets: from 11 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Autumn Symphony
San Ferdinando Theater
Match Final
After the success of last year at the Napoli Teatro Festival, the show will be presented again at the Teatro San Ferdinando "Final game" by Samuel Beckett, directed by Lluis Pasqual, with Lello Arena. On stage a typical "Beckettian" situation: the bitter and paradoxical bickering between Hamm, an elderly blind man unable to stand up, and his servant Clov, who on the contrary is unable to sit down. Both are inextricably linked and Clov, who continually wishes to leave Hamm, is unable to leave.
Date: from the 28 January to the 15 February 2015
Price tickets: from 11 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Final match
New Theatre
America
The director Maurizio Scaparro directs a show based on a novel by Franz Kafka on the story of Karl Rossmann, a European Jewish emigrant and his journey to the American dream, in search of a well-being that always seems at hand but that remains elusive.
Date: from 14 January to 18 January 2015
Price tickets: from 10 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show America
Schindler's List
The intense story of Oskar Schindler arrives at the theater thanks to the direction of Francesco Giuffrè, with Carlo Giuffrè, which traces the life of a man who had the courage to rebel against the monstrosity made during the Nazi period, when his compatriots Polish Jews were taken to concentration camps. Schindler is u erorwe, because he has dug the life of 1200 people between men and women and, as his accountant Oskar got to say from Itzhak Stern, "Whoever saves the life of one man, saves the whole world".
Date: from the 28 January to the 1 February 2015
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Schindler's List
Toledo Gallery
Ivan and the Devil
Alberto Oliva and Mino Manni continue their dostoevskijano path facing Il Great Inquisitor, chapter taken from the masterpiece of the Russian writer The Karamazov brothers, in an adaptation to the border between reality and hallucination, in which an investigation into the roots of evil is carried out. The text deals with the theme of the injustice of evil. Ivan and the devil underlines the dimension of the contrast, of the conflict, of the opposites that meet and collide, when these can no longer be kept distant.
Date: from 13 to 18 January 2015
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Ivan and the Devil
A species of Alaska
From a drama of Harold Pinter, directed by Valerio Binasco. Staged in a hospital room, a woman wakes up after almost thirty years convinced to go to her birthday party for her fifteen years. But she is actually forty-five, and she will have to deal with a new aging self, with a dark period she has never experienced, and with a world that resembles a "kind of Alaska", where everything seems absurd but is painfully real. .
Date: from 23 to 25 January 2015
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show A species of Alaska
Palm Theater
Fragile
Isa Danieli offers the public a journey through the best of Neapolitan and international poetry, from "It was de Maggio" a"Thanks to life", Via "What happened to the clouds" by Modugno and Pasolini to the Eduardian echoes like "Don Gennaro" e "Naples Millionaire". “A very varied and heartfelt selection. Because, in addition to what the public likes and what the public expects of me, there are pieces that I love. So, beyond Di Giacomo and Bovio, there will be references to Brecht and Pasolini from 'Capriccio all'italiana', up to the great Violetta Parra. In short, the crowning of a career long desire ".
Date: from 21 to 25 January 2015
Price tickets: from 20 to 32 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Fragile
