INCONTRO A TEATRO
Prima dello spettacolo, alle ore 20.00 nella Sala del Ridotto, condotto da Antonio Stefani, giornalista e critico teatrale de Il Giornale di Vicenza.
Tuesday 1 April, 20:45 | Sala Maggiore | Buy ticketBuy |
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June 16, 1955. At the Duke of York's Theater in London, Orson Welles goes on stage to fight with his white whales: Melville, the empty stage and the room full of spectators. He gives the public neither sea, nor whales, nor ships, but rather a company of actors, himself and his text, in which he intertwines Melville's masterpiece with Shakespeare's King Lear. The protagonist of the piece is in fact a company of actors who, on stage with the Bard's tragedy, rehearse in the breaks a theatrical reduction of Moby Dick, building a bridge between Melville and Shakespeare, Ahab and Lear. The first irredeemable in his obsession with revenge against the white whale, the second ultimately redeemed by the atrocities of life.
Moby Dick on trial reveals the scenic power of Orson Welles the playwright, who epically intertwines Melville and Shakespeare, Ahab and King Lear, obsessed with the narrative and musical rhythm of theatrical creation. Elio De Capitani and the Elfo company compete with a text, unpublished in Italy, on the titanic and senseless clash between man and nature. The stage is empty, a few objects come to life in a cleverly casual way, catapulting the spectator into the waves of storms or into the presence of sea monsters evoked only by the vigorous pace of the bars or by the burst of folk sea ballads and sacred hymns reinvented by I live by Mario Arcari.
author | Orson Welles |
adapted into blank verse from the novel by | Melville |
translation | Cristina Viti |
a play by | Elio De Capitani |
with | Elio De Capitani, Cristina Crippa, Angelo Di Genio, Marco Bonadei, Enzo Curcurù, Alessandro Lussiana, Massimo Somaglino, Michele Costabile, Giulia Viana, Vincenzo Zampa, Mario Arcari |
costume design | Ferdinando Bruni |
live music | Mario Arcari |
choir's direction | Francesca Breschi |
light design | Michele Ceglia |
sound design | Gianfranco Turco |
masks | Marco Bonadei |
director's assistant | Alessandro Frigerio |
set designer's assistant | Roberta Monopoli |
coproduction | Teatro dell'Elfo e Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale |
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