True to the language of dreams that returns evanescent images, allusions and mirages, TITIZÉ is a performance that leads the spectator into a rarefied and surreal universe. Its narrative, seemingly fragmented but deeply allusive, develops in a kaleidoscopic game that interweaves different planes of meaning, evoking a hyperbolic “grammelot.” “TITIZÉ,” “you are”: an emblematic word full of rhythm, which with its evocative sonority draws attention to the power of the verb “to be,” emphasizing the universality of an experience imagined to intimately engage a diverse audience of all ages. The show blends tradition and innovation in a fascinating marriage of clowning, body language and acrobatics-which allows for allusion, metaphor-making, and the amplification of emotions-and the use of innovative stage machinery, resulting in a theater of wonder and lightness, without having to resort to words. With a cast of ten talented performers, including acrobats, actors and musicians, TITIZÉ invites you to immerse yourself in the essence of Venice, where the past and the present mingle into one fascinating tale and the stories, scattered like shells on the beach, each with its own beauty and mystery, are recomposed into a precious mosaic. Director’s Notes
The clowning we practice has always been intimately linked to tradition and carries with it echoes of the language of the Commedia dell’Arte.
We come from a theater of wonder and simplicity that over the years we have contaminated by using increasingly fascinating scenic machines, inventing a visual aesthetic that is our own. We build shows in which we immerse multidisciplinary performers in rarefied universes where wonder sometimes manifests itself in a naive, sometimes ingenious, sometimes surreal way.
The dramaturgy of our shows often seems fragmented and allusive perhaps because we always refer to the architecture of dream language that uses words sparingly but questions us with contradictory images, allusions and mirages. There will be the reflections in the water, the diaphanity of the blurs when the clouds descend low low, there will be the mythical play of masquerading that refers us to veiling to reveal oneself and then to reveal oneself again: the three magical movements that magicians and shamans know and hand down. There will be the night and its madness, the antics of the jesters, objects levitating, acrobats flying, surreal rain and a continuous recreation of impossible balances. There will be the characters of tradition that in a kaleidoscopic game will be multiplied, doubled, disassembled and reconstructed. A show in which, as always, we will pursue lightness while maintaining a continuous dialogue made of empathy with the audience.
We will stage the world of the Guitti who this time will present themselves as skilled prestidigitators. There will be Venice with its splendor, its atmospheres, its poetry and the mysteries that inhabit it.
Constructing a Comedy that is both comic and at the same time of amazement is the challenge of this collaboration between Il Teatro Goldoni, the Compagnia Gli Ipocriti Melina Balsamo and our group of creators that just this year celebrates 40 years of adventurous artistic partnership.
A production imagined for an audience that on Venetian summer nights will feel like immersing itself in a dreamlike journey.

A show then destined to travel the world taking us back to the theaters that have welcomed us in the 46 countries we have visited so far. I am thinking of a cast of ten performers made up of acrobats, actors and musicians, and I intend to avail myself of the collaboration of artists with whom I have created in recent years productions designed for the theater, for opera up to Olympic ceremonies including: Hugo Gargiulo assisted by Matteo Verlicchi on set designs, Maria Bonzanigo as composer, Giovanna Buzzi as costume designer. I also imagine collaborating with Venetian artists, young performers, artisans and historical collaborators of the Goldoni Theater so that I can better discover the theater’s own language and magic.

Daniele Finzi Pasca

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