Naples Theatre Festival

ANOTHER SLEEPY DUSTY DELTA DAY text, set-design, direction Jan Fabre choreography Jan Fabre, Ivana Jozic performer Ivana Jozic production Troubleyn/Jan Fabre coproduction Festival d'Avignon, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia collaboration with Aldo Miguel Grompone, Zagreb Youth Theatre & Theatre Festival (Croazia) from 26th to 28th June 20.00 Teatro Nuovo First Night duration 90' dramaturgy and assistant to Jan Fabre Miet Martens soundscape Tom Tiest, DomXh recordings at Ghost Town (Hemiksem,B) by Geert Vanbever musicians Tom Tiest (guitar) Filip Vandebril ((double) bass), deemonkeyjazz ...

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 ...

The Theatre Festival of Naples, which is celebrating its first edition this year, will feature two performances of the “Trickster of Seville or The Stone Guest” by Tirso de Molina, with Spanish actor Fran Perea in the role of Don Juan. The version of this Golden Age classic, which will be set in Naples on 21 and 22 June, is a production ...

TEMPLE di Natalie Hennedige regia Natalie Hennedige coproduzione NTFI e Singapore Arts Festival (Singapore) Prima Europea lingua: inglese (sopratitoli in italiano) durata: 80’ dal 27 al 29 giugno 22.00 location: Real Albergo dei Poveri

Neapolitan musicologist Roberto De Simone is a most remarkable person. He was the artistic director of the San Carlo Theater in the late 1980s and was appointed director of the Naples Conservatory in 1995. He has spent his professional life rejuvenating the cultural history of his city. This includes collecting folk tales and music, and reviving a number of seldom- or never-performed pieces from the vast repertoire of 18th-century Neapolitan comic ...

LO VOMMARO A DUELLO by Roberto De Simone directed by Roberto De Simone production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia in cooproduction with Fondazione Teatro San Carlo di Napoli 27th, 28th June 21.00 Mercadante – Teatro Stabile di Napoli First night language Italian duration 165 Roberto De Simone’s new performance is the result of the fusion of Pasquale Starace’s play Lo Vommaro (1742), and Il duello comico, Giovanni Paisiello’s farce in music (1774). The performance develops along two parallel tracks, including scenes played by actors ...

Syrian-Lebanese poet, literary critic, translator, and editor, a highly influential figure in Arabic poetry and literature today. Adonis combines in his work a deep knowledge classical Arabic poetry and revolutionary, modernist expression. Like a number of Middle Eastern writers, Adonis has explored the pain of exile - "I write in a language that exiles me," he once said. "Being a poet means that I have already written but that I ...

ALBERI ADAGIATI SULLA LUCE by Adonis translation Francesca Corrao presentazione del testo: 26 giugno

DEATH IS CERTAIN (36 modi per torturare una ciliegia) performance by Eva Meyer-Keller production Eva Meyer-Keller from 26th to 28th June 21.10 duration 40' location: Real Albergo dei Poveri with friendly support by Vooruit Gent, Stuk Leuven thanks to Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar, Rico Repotente assistance Napoli Martina Schumacher The performance could also be entitled 36 ways to torture a cherry, as cherries, together with a wide range of daily objects, are the main ...

PANTAGRUEL SISTER-IN-LAW directed by Silviu Purcarete production National Theatre Radu Stanca Sibiu (Romania), Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania) e Compagnie Silviu Purcarete (France) language: speachless show lenght: 80’ dal 26 al 28 giugno 8.00 pm Teatro Bellini With this performance, Purcarete pays hommage to Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a Renaissance opera, encyclopaedic and open, which tells the of the undertaking of Pantagruel, son of the giant Gargantua. The number of operas is the linguistic ...