The best theatrical performances in Naples, October 2015 | Address Book
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The shows of the 2015/2016 season begin in the theaters of Naples! Between comedies by Eduardo, Viviani, but also Ficarra and Picone, Arturo Brachetti, “Passione” and Sal Da Vinci!
After the summer break, the theatre seasons in Naples restart, welcoming, from October 2015, new, entertaining, intense shows full of dramatic innovations, ready to satisfy the tastes of those who love comedy and musicals, but also prose and opera.
Napolike is back again this year to recommend the best theatrical performances currently on stage in Naples' theaters, featuring the most interesting titles on the bill, including hilarious Italian and traditional Neapolitan comedies, engaging prose performances, colorful musicals, refined classical ballets, and intense operas.
To spend a year completely immersed in theater and culture, witnessing the thousand forms of live performance in the splendid theaters of Naples.
Augustan theater
I do not pay you
Luca De Filippo's Theatre Company brings to the stage one of Eduardo's most famous and brilliant comedies, which he himself defined as "a very comical comedy that in my opinion is the most tragic I have ever written ." In a show made of dreams, lottery wins, superstitions and popular beliefs in a harsh everyday reality made of fear, anguish and poverty that does not, however, give up hope.
Date: from October 23, 2015
Information on times and tickets for the show I Don't Pay You
Teatro Diana
Open heaven
Ficarra and Picone bring their new and entertaining show to the Diana Theatre. It draws inspiration from everyday life, full of crime, politics, and religion, offering us, with their lightheartedness, an ironic reflection on our society and our nation.
Date: 14 from October to 25 2015
Price tickets: from 18 to 33 euro
Information on times and tickets for the Apriti Cielo show
Brachetti what a surprise!
The world's greatest quick-change artist, Arturo Brachetti , will perform one of his incredible "quick change" shows, thrilling audiences with the infinite and extravagant characters he is able to bring to life in the blink of an eye, transforming himself before the spectators' eyes from hat to shoes, changing clothes and, above all, soul.
Dates: October 28th to November 8th, 2015
Information on times and tickets for the Brachetti che sorpresa show!
Teatro Bellini
Live Passion
The concert-show based on the unforgettable film directed by John Turturro is coming to the Bellini Theatre. It's a journey through the music of Naples, from the great classics of Neapolitan song to contemporary hits, with a completely new musical and scenographic style under the directorial supervision of John Turturro.
Date: October 15, 2015
Price tickets: from 25 to 35 euro
Information on times and tickets for the Passione Live show
Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest
After last year's resounding success, the show based on Miloš Forman's film, starring an unforgettable Jack Nicholson, returns. Originally based on a novel written by Ken Kesey in 1962 and adapted for Broadway by Dale Wasserman, it is directed by Alessandro Gassmann , with a screenplay by Maurizio de Giovanni. The play stars Daniele Russo as Randle McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, preferring a psychiatric hospital to prison.
Date: from 23 October to 1 November 2015
Price tickets: from the 16 to the 35 euro
Information on times and tickets for the show One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Little Bellini
The contract
From one of Eduardo de Filippo's comedies, about the story of an impostor who promises resurrection by exploiting human relationships and the fear of death to his advantage, a theatrical show directed by Pino Carbone is born that treats the text as if it were a trilogy: the three acts they are autonomous bodies of investigation, the first act investigates the individual, the second on affects and the third on society.
Date: from 23 October to 1 November 2015
Price tickets: 15 euros
Information on times and tickets for the show The Contract
Stable Theater of Naples
In Memory of una signora amica
A text written by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, staged for the first time by Francesco Rosi in 1963, which tells of four evenings from 1945 to 1950, focused on a generational conflict, between the need to leave and the awareness of staying, between the nostalgic past of mothers and the uncertain future of children full of ideals, unsolved young people struggling in an attempt to make sense of escaping from a city-refuge.
Date: from 28 October to 15 November 2015
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on times and tickets for the show In Memory of a Friend
Sannazaro Theater
Death of Carnival
A tribute to Raffaele Viviani with one of the great Neapolitan maestro's most accomplished theatrical works, offering an extraordinary glimpse into the era, both ferocious and exhilarating, "with a cast of artists born and raised in traditional theater, united by a shared love for a genre that must not be forgotten." On the thirtieth anniversary of Nino Taranto's passing.
Date: from October 23, 2015
Information on times and tickets for the Death of Carnival show
Cilea Theater
If love is… Revolution
An unmissable musical show by Sal Da Vinci about love, "the simplest thing in the world, because when we experience it, when we're in love, everything else loses weight and complexity." A show lasting over two hours of music alternating with sketches by actor Lello Radice as the positive "disturber."
Date: from 29 October to 8 November 2015
Price tickets: from 25 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets for the show Se amore è…Revolution
Teatro Sancarluccio
Illegal family business
Rosaria De Cicco plays Emma, the comedy's protagonist, who is evicted from her home because a man sublet her bed for three hours a day. Emma tries to teach dignity to Oscar, her "retarded" nine-year-old son, but gets caught red-handed at the supermarket. Her son adores her and wants to know who the man sleeping on their couch is. A conversation in a public park unfolds.
Date: from 22 to 25 and 2015
Price tickets: 20 euros
Information on times and tickets for the show Illegal Business in the Family
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