Faithful to the language of dreams that delivers evanescent images, allusions, and mirages, TITIZÉ is a show that leads the viewer into a rarefied and surreal universe. Its narrative, seemingly fragmented but deeply allusive, unfolds in a kaleidoscopic game that interweaves different levels 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 involve a heterogeneous audience of all ages.
The show blends tradition and innovation in a fascinating union between clowning, body language and “acrobatics – which allows for allusion, creating metaphors, amplifying emotions – and the” use of innovative stage machinery, giving life to a theater of wonder and lightness, without resorting 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 past and present blend into a single fascinating story and the tales, 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 echoes of the language of Commedia dell’Arte.
We come from a theater of wonder and simplicity that over the years we have contaminated using increasingly fascinating stage machinery, 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 naively, sometimes ingeniously, other times surreally.
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 interrogates us with contradictory images, allusions, and mirages. There will be reflections in the water, the diaphanous blurs when clouds descend low, there will be the mythical game of masking that refers us to veiling to unveil and then reveal again: the three magical movements that magicians and shamans know and pass down. There will be the night and its madness, the buffoonery of jesters, objects that will levitate, acrobats that will fly, surreal rain, and a continuous recreation of impossible balances. There will be traditional characters that in a kaleidoscopic game will be multiplied, split, dismantled, and reconstructed. A show in which, as always, we will pursue lightness while maintaining a continuous dialogue 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.
Building a comic Comedy and at the same time one of wonder is the challenge of this collaboration between Teatro Goldoni, Compagnia Gli Ipocriti Melina Balsamo, and our group of creators who are celebrating 40 years of adventurous artistic partnership this year.
A production imagined for an audience that on Venetian summer nights will want to immerse themselves in a dreamlike journey. A show then destined to travel the world, bringing us back to the theaters that have welcomed us in the 46 countries we have visited so far. I envision a cast of ten performers composed of acrobats, actors, and musicians, and I intend to avail myself of the collaboration of artists with whom I have created productions in recent years designed for theater, opera, and even Olympic ceremonies, including: Hugo Gargiulo assisted by Matteo Verlicchi for set design, Maria Bonzanigo as composer, Giovanna Buzzi as costume designer. I also imagine collaborating with Venetian artists, young performers, artisans, and long-time collaborators of Teatro Goldoni so as to better discover the unique language and magic of this theater. 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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