Back to the Toledo Gallery in Naples the fun theatricalized Neapolitan bingo to spend the Christmas holidays in the name of tradition.
From the 25 28 December 2017 it will be possible to participate in an extravagant and fun Neapolitan Tombola to the Toledo Gallery, the theater located in the heart of the Spanish Quarters.
Nummere, Scostumatissima Neapolitan Tombola is the format created by the Toledo Gallery that theatricalizes the traditional game of bingo making actors and spectators interact in a show unique in its kind.
In Nummere, Sara a true Neapolitan wig, interpreted by Gino Curcione, to extract the numbers from the "panariello", weaving around them an inexhaustible phantasmagoria of inventions and found. As in a linguistic happening that shows off one of the most loved Neapolitan rituals, not only at Christmas, the Neapolitan populace will convince the winning spectators of ambi, quartet, quaterne, cinquine and tombole, on the stage subjecting them to a series of provocations and affectionate mockery, overwhelmed by the cheerful and melancholic exuberance of this Neapolitan actor.
The ancient ritual of the Neapolitan Tombola is already a theatrical performance
As everyone knows, the Tombola in Naples is not just a Christmas game but a real ritual which associates the numbers (those from 1 to 90, of course) to meanings, the "numerical strings".
When playing bingo at Christmas, in fact, before announcing the number extracted from the "panariello", its meaning is first mentioned. It is said first "the dead man who speaks" and then "48", As if in the mind of every inhabitant of the city there was an extravagant numbering made up of symbols and metaphors and not numbers.
How to in a real theatrical operation that stages the popular beliefs of the city and enthusiastically participate all, both "the actor", who manages the "billboard", and the "spectators" with their folders, mixing creativity, improvisation and spontaneity, divination, questioning the future of the world and research of their own and little luck.
Informazioni su Nummere, Scostumatissima Neapolitan Tombola
When: from the 25 28 2017 December
Price tickets:
- Unique place € 20
- Groups of at least 5 people € 15 (exclusively with pre-sale purchase at the theater box office)
