L’opera di periferia by Peppe Lanzetta (Italy)
By Stefano • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 21, 2008 9:30 pm | a | June 22, 2008 9:30 pm |
L’OPERA DI PERIFERIA
by Peppe Lanzetta
directed by Pasquale De Cristofaro
production Associazione Teatro Studio
21st, 22nd June
21.30
Teatro della Villa Comunale
language Italian
duration 120′
L’opera di periferia is an original musical comedy that marks Peppe Lanzetta’s debùt as writer of comedies.
The performance draws its inspiration from Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera or from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; it is about “marginalised” teen-agers who dream of America but, likely enough, will die on a road in the outskirts of Naples named American Road. They are the children of the Neapolitan suburban districts, symbols of any peripheral city area, but above all, of social marginalisation. It is a difficult reality made up of rebellion and naivety, or epic deeds, the complexity of which is conveyed through a wide range of languages suspended between tragedy and “sceneggiata”, in a narration including prose, songs and dance, something in-between musical comedy and musical.
The performance is played by professional actors and a group of teen-agers from the urban suburbs to raise the awareness of the public opinion of the problems and hopes of these areas. The project is also aimed at creating social integration, opportunities for cultural emancipation and, lastly, job opportunities. The work deals with the problems linked to the marginalisation of the post-modern lumpenproletariat and of the gangs of teen-agers from the “malanapoli”; it also deals with the pervasive interference of camorra in an increasing number of districts in Naples.
Born in Naples in 1956, Peppe Lanzetta worked with Edoardo Bennato, Pino Daniele, James Senese and Franco Battiato writing down the texts of their songs. He made his theatrical debùt with Napoletano pentito (1983), followed by Roipnol (1984), Il vangelo secondo Lanzetta (1986), Lenny (1988), Caro Achille ti scrivo (1990), Il peggio di Lanzetta (1993), Tropico di Napoli (1998), Ridateci i sogni (2001). Actor and author of cinema projects, he also worked with directors such as Piscicelli, Tornatore, Cavani, De Crescenzo, Loy, Martone, Asia Argento, Scimeca. He published: Un amore a termine (1998) and In gita a Napoli (1997). He co-operated as author of texts with a
number of musicians including Edoardo Bennato, Tullio de Piscopo, James Senese, Enzo Avitabile, Joe Amoruso, Rino Zurzolo, Franco Ricciardi, Massimo Severino and Franco Battiato.
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