Three appointments in two days. A month of shows. Then the unknown of summer, waiting for the new autumn season. The restart plan of the Teatro della Toscana Foundation, and therefore della Pergola, Niccolini, Teatro Studio Mila Pieralli in Scandicci and Teatro Era in Pontedera, is ready. And he relies on the charisma and name of the new artistic director Stefano Accorsi who will stage the monologue Giocando con Orlando, an adaptation by Marco Baliani from Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, with scenes signed by the artist Mimmo Paladino for two performances. It starts on Sunday at 5pm from the Era Theater. Then on Monday at 6.45 pm at the Pergola (limited places due to the distance, ticket 15 euros).
“Returning to the theater after 430 days of closure is like returning to breathe after being without oxygen for a long, too long time, both for all of us who work there and for the public – says Accorsi – I am very excited, to be back on stage with a text that I love so much and that speaks of love in all its forms seems to me the best way to embrace all those who will be there “. Adapting Ariosto in the form of a monologue was “a feat worthy of knights errant, indeed narrative” jokes Baliani.
However, on Sunday evening (at 9 pm) the Pergola will be the “television” set for Marco Masini’s acoustic concert. The Florentine singer-songwriter presents in live streaming a special anthological acoustic concert with his greatest career successes, for a charity evening in support of the Meyer Pediatric Hospital Foundation. Visible on the website livestreaming.momyrecords.com while tickets can be purchased on the artist’s website www.marcomasini.it.
“It is a great signal to the city, the Region and the country – comments Tommaso Sacchi, councilor for culture of Palazzo Vecchio and president of the Teatro della Toscana Foundation, happy for the restart – it is also an act of generous attention by Stefano Accorsi to wanting to open this new phase with his monologue, an agile production to be brought quickly to the stage, essential for everyone to be ready to start again, the right production for a reopening ». In addition to these two days “we are working on a bill that we will present in the next few days and which will allow us to tell the story of the activities of the Foundation and our theaters in the coming weeks, until it will be possible to keep the theater open”. One tranche until early June. Then «either you move outside or you are necessarily closed due to the season. And finally we hope to find ourselves in the conditions to be able to put in place a real season in October ». The date of Masini’s concert had been decided and organized when there was still no question of the possible return of the public to the hall at the Roman government level. For this reason the first act of the new phase will not be live but in streaming. “We have to thank Marco Masini for choosing us to create this event with a great symbolic value for Meyer – adds Sacchi – It will be an evening with a strong directorial and therefore” television “matrix that could not be changed to accommodate the audience in the hall».
May 6, 2021 | 09:13
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