2023-06-09 16:40:35
Two millennia of literature, from Homer’s Iliad, albeit much revised and much corrected, to contemporary Italian writers: this is the temporal spectrum that proposes the new season of Ambra Jovinelli theater in Rome which, according to the intentions of its artistic director Fabrizia Pompilius, “after those of reopening and recovery, it will have to be that of consolidating and relaunching our way of doing theatre”. As for last season’s balance, “we had a weak share of season tickets but a strong ticketing, so either there is a desire to reach the box office only close to the event or the return to normality is still slow”.
Moving on to the new billboard, they will be Philip Dini, Anna Bonaiuto and Manuela Mandracchia were the first to raise the curtain, on October 18, with the Roman debut of ‘August in Osage County’, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by its author Tracy Letts from whose text the film was based ‘ Osage County’ with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Followed by: Teresa Mannino with ‘The jaguar looks at me wrong’; Silvio Orlando which re-proposes ‘Life ahead of itself’; Massimo Dapporto and Antonello Fassari in ‘The crime in via dell’Orsina’ by Eugene Labiche directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah; Andrea Delogu in ’40 and I’; Geppi Cucciari with ‘Perfect’.
Two-pronged proposal Ferzan Ozpetek: ‘Loose Cannons’ and ‘Magnificent Presence’, both inspired by the director’s two homonymous films, with a cast yet to be defined for the second piece, while for the first – which will be the ‘Christmas’ and early-year show – already announced Simon Marchini and Francesco Pannofino. The latter also engaged in ‘Who is I?’ written and directed by Angelo Longoni. Davide Sacco instead signs the text and direction of ‘Sixth power’ with Francis Montanari: if the fourth estate is (was?) the press and the fifth is television, the sixth is represented by social networks, the unstoppable engines of the mud machine.
The Ambra Jovinelli program continues with the proposal of other important titles and appearances: Paola Minaccioni for ‘Stupida Show!’; Andrea Pennacchi for a very special ‘Arlecchino’; Louis LoCascio in ‘Pà’ for the dramaturgy by Marco Tullio Giordana from the texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Alessio Boni in an ‘Iliad, the game of the gods’ which brings to mind Homer’s epic; Frances Reggiani in ‘Spectacular’.
And again: Arturo Cirillo for a ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ by Edmond Rostand who will also draw on Collodi’s ‘Pinocchio’; Maximilian Gallo in the comedy ‘Lovers’ written by Ivan Cotroneo; to then close the curtain on May 26 with the last rerun of ‘Come forward, stupid!’ Of Serena Dandini, who was the artistic director of the theater when it reopened, after years of closure and abandonment. Instead, she will be the current director Fabrizia Pompilius to preside over the inauguration of the room with the new, elegant and comfortable red armchairs that will replace the light blue ones with the wooden backrests in sight, definitely too ‘vintage’.
(Of Enzo Bonaiuto)
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