A dramatic and moving comedy from Harold Pinter on stage at the Toledo Gallery in Naples
Valerio Binasco brings to the stage in Naples, at the permanent theater of innovation Toledo Gallery, a profound and bitter show, based on a play by the English playwright Harold Pinter.
A species of Alaska is a text inspired by some real testimonies collected by the doctor Oliver Sacks in his work Awakenings, where the experiences of patients suffering fromencephalitis letargica, an epidemic that terrorized most of the world after the 1916. Pinter was deeply impressed, and decided to write a drama around the story of a woman who wakes up after twenty-nine years of a lethargic coma.
On stage a hospital room, which the public can hear closely, given the lack of barriers that separate actors and spectators, a woman wakes up after almost thirty years Convinced of going to the birthday party for her fifteen years. But in reality it has forty-five, and will have to deal with a new aged self, with a dark period never lived, and with a world that resembles a “kind of Alaska“, Where everything seems absurd but is painfully real.
The scenography chosen by Binasco is minimal, classic and raw, made up of actors of the caliber of Sara Bertelà in the role of Deborah, flanked by Nicola Pannelli, the doctor and Orietta Notari, his sister, capable of leading the audience into a suspended atmosphere.
Information on the show A species of Alaska
When: 10 from January to 19 2014
Price tickets:
from Tuesday to Friday
- whole 15 euro
- reduced 12 euro (for affiliates and over 65)
- young people under 30 10 euro
Saturday and Sunday
- whole 20 euro
- reduced single 15 euro
Where: theater Galleria Toledo, via Concezione in Montecalvario 34, Naples
