The company Vesuvian Theater Academy brings on stage at Teatro Primo from the 2 to the 5 May a pleasant reinterpretation of one of the most magical and visionary Shakespearean comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The stage of the small theater of the Colli Aminei is initially transformed, with few scenic objects, into the reign of the Duke of Athens Teseo next to the wedding with Ippolita, the queen of the Amazons. This story is intertwined with four other stories, which find their culmination in one enchanted forest, where love, friendship and passion for the art of theater are celebrated amidst prodigies and spells.
The story unfolds, respecting the original plot, through the amorous skirmishes between four young Athenians: Lisandro loves Hermia which, obliged by the father, must marry Demetrio, who is in love with Hermia but in turn loved by madness Elena, a friend of Ermia since childhood.
Ermia and Lysander, during the night, flee to the woods, where a clash of power is in progress Oberon, king of the elves, and Titania, queen of the fairies. To trigger the action and the magic is Puck, servant of Oberon, who squeezes a magic flower on the eyes of Titania and young Athenians to make sure that they fall in love with the first person who, when they wake up, appears before their eyes.
Meanwhile, one amateurs company of amateurs composed of artisans he breaks into the scene several times to rehearse the parts they will play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. The typical Shakespearean "metatheatral graft" is made even more fun here by the adaptation by Gianmarco Cesario and director Gianni Sallustio who make the actors speak in a colorful Neapolitan dialect, accentuating the differences between the people and the nobility of the princes. And here Nick Bottom the weaver, one of the most comical characters in Shakespeare's comedies, becomes "Cap and Chiuov", accompanied by a "chianchiere" a toymaker and an unlikely seamstress who improvises as director of this hilarious theater company at the very beginning. .
A comedy that deserves applause, since dealing with Shakespeare is never easy, and even more so A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose meaning is to transmit and represent the illusions and delusions of men, their whims and desires, weaknesses and follies caused by love, but above all "How foolish these mortals are".
Price tickets: from the 10 euros
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