In Scena! Fall 2023 brings back three theater companies from Italy who took part of the Festival in the past. The performances will be in San Diego (October 27), Santa Rosa (October 29, 30 and November 1), in Calgary (November 3 and 5) and Lethbridge (November 4). In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
October 27, San Diego – October 29, Santa Rosa
THE TIGHTROPE WALKERS (LE FUNAMBOLE)
In Scena! 2019
Adapted & Directed by Rosario Sparno Performed by Antonella Romano & Rosario Sparno Installation by Antonella Romano A project by Bottega Bombardini Produced by Associazione Casa del Contemporaneo – Centro di produzione teatrale.
Based on Sicilian legends from 1800 and 1900, the story is told in the form of the “cunto”, a theater form typical of the Sicilian tradition, with roots in the Ancient Greece of Homer. In the 1930 a small village on the Sicilian sea was about to be upset by an earthquake. But, first, it will be another event to disturb the quiet of this place: the arrival of the tightrope walkers. The Sicilian “cunto” is told by a man and a woman, while she embroiders the iron and he shines it with sea water.
October 27, San Diego – October 30, Santa Rosa – November 5 Calgary
MY IDEA (LA MIA IDEA), THE STORY OF JOE ZANGARA
In Scena! 2017
by and with Ernesto Orrico, live original music by Massimo Garritano
Original photos: Matteo Ianni Palarchio, Artistic collaboration: Emilia Brandi, Produced by: Zahir associazione culturale in collaboration with Teatro Rossosimona, organization: Alessandra Fucilla
My Idea. Memory of Joe Zangara [La mia idea. Memoria di Joe Zangara] Written and directed by Ernesto Orrico With Ernesto Orrico Music by Massimo Garritano Produced by Zahir (Calabria) First-person account of the life of Giuseppe “Joe” Zangara, an Italian immigrant who, having attempted to kill US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, could have changed the course of history. His “crime against the state” is punished with a “crime committed by the State:” at 33, on March 20, 1933, Zangara is executed in the electric chair. Massimo Garritano jazz-improvises, using the bouzuchi and the dobro, two instruments belonging to Calabria as well as to the United States, between the words spoken in Calabrese dialect by Ernesto Orrico.
November 1 Santa Rosa – November 3 Calgary – November 4 Lethbridge
ONLY MOZART IS MISSING (MANCA SOLO MOZART)
In Scena! 2023
Written & Directed by Antonio Grosso
Performed by Marco Simeoli
Set Design by Alessandro Chiti, Costume Design by Marco Maria Della Vecchia, Assistant Director Andrea Vellotti, Photographer Francesco Nannarelli
“I’m not coming from an artistic family, or rather, a music family, as my origins are linked to this shop, the most important in Naples from the 1920s to today. Located right in front of the glorious San Pietro a Majella conservatory, this place of culture and musical ferment has made history, and seen history passing by. All the greatest artists entered there… almost all of them, only Mozart is missing”. [Marco Simeoli]
Based on true stories of Marco Simeoli’s grandfather, founder of the most influential music store in Naples, still in business, MUSICA SIMEOLI. From documents and scores found in a store apparently abandoned and suspended in time, the history of Italy is traced. Through words and music, Marco Simeoli brings to the stage the many stories of his grandfather: Memories of the Belle Époque, the Second World War, the economic boom of the Sixties and the great illusion of the Eighties. A century comes alive together thanks to the many famous clients of Musica Simeoli, such as Totò, Roberto Murolo, Renato Carosone, Riccardo Muti, Pino Daniele and Massimo Troisi.
