L’Arte della Commedia
Teatro DonizettiThe questions, doubts, responsibilities, constraints and weaknesses that Eduardo brings to the table affect us all, and that "Theater," whether it is a theater company, a community or a small world, becomes a resonator of our relationship with power and the need to be heard and, above all, recognized. "Come to the theater Mr. Prefect! - says the head playwright Oreste Campese - In Theater the supreme truth has been and always will be the supreme fiction...": it all starts here. How much can the distance and filter of theater, through fiction, help us deal with reality? The art of comedy, the extraordinary and brilliant work by Eduardo De Filippo is part of "Odd Days," the collection that - from different angles - addresses the difficult issues of everyday life. Incredible is the strength and topicality of the text that brings us in a direct way to confront the mortification and censorship of culture. Written in 1964 - ambiguous and at the same time farcical - it is a little-visited work, seemingly less explosive than the most famous masterpieces; instead, it is a masterful, wide-ranging and extraordinarily imperfect text, as imperfect is the human being in search of his identity, his right to exist, in short, in search of answers to those pressing and necessary questions that cannot wait any longer. Playbill by Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo adaptation and direction Fausto Russo Alesi characters and performers (in order of appearance) Oreste Campese, lead actor and company manager Fausto Russo Alesi Veronesi, sentry David Meden Palmira, innkeeper Sem Bonventre His Excellency De Caro, prefect Alex Cendron Giacomo Franci, his secretary Paolo Zuccari Quinto Bassetti Filippo LunaFather Salvati Gennaro De SiaLucia Petrella Imma VillaGerolamo Pica Demian Troiano HackmanA man Davide Falbo scenes Marco Rossi costumes Gianluca Sbicca music Giovanni Vitaletti lights Max Mugnai consultancy for stage movements Alessio Maria Romano assistant director Davide Gasparro production Teatro di Napoli - National Theatre, Fondazione Teatro della Toscana - National Theatre, Teatro di Roma - National Theatre, Elledieffe Duration 2 hours and 40 minutes including intermission
BERGAMO FILM MEETING opens BERGAMO JAZZ
Auditorium di Piazza della Libertà3:15 PM Screening of the film Nóż w wodzie (Knife in the Water) by Roman Polański (Poland, 1962, 94') with Leon Niemczyk, Kolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz music by Krzysztof Komeda Knife in the Water is Roman Polanski's first feature film, made when he was not yet thirty, and one of the most successful directorial debuts in cinema history: it was presented at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize, and was the first Polish film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film (it was beaten by Fellini's 8½). About to leave for a boat trip, a sports journalist and his wife pick up a young hitchhiker in their car and invite him to join them for the weekend excursion. Thus begins a 24-hour coexistence in the cramped space of a sailboat that becomes the stage for a psychological, verbal, and even physical confrontation between the two men, antagonists in a struggle that seems to have the woman's attention as its prize, as she silently observes the virile dispute. The soundtrack is by Krzysztof Komeda, a Polish pianist and composer considered one of the most original exponents of European jazz in the 1960s. His sextet, which included trumpeter Tomasz Stanko among others, remains one of the most valuable and innovative formations of that period. Komeda, who passed away in 1969, also wrote the music for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers and Janusz Morgenstern's Good Bye, Till Tomorrow, as well as for Polanski's Cul-de-sac, The Fearless Vampire Killers, and Rosemary's Baby. 5:30 PM DANILO GALLO Danilo Gallo electric bass, bass balalaika, effects Live soundtrack for the film Kohlhiesels Töchter (Two Sisters) by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany, 1920, 64') with Jacob Tiedtke, Henny Portne, Emil Jannings, Gustav Von Wangenheim Loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Two Sisters is set in an unspecified village in Southern Bavaria, where young Xaver wants to fulfill his dream of love and marry the beautiful Gretel. However, Kohlhiesel, the girl's father, refuses to give him his younger daughter's hand because he doesn't want her to marry before her older sister Liesel. Unfortunately, no one approaches Liesel because of her ugliness. Xaver sees himself as doomed, when his friend Seppel provides the solution: marry one sister first, then the other... A whirlwind of misunderstandings is guaranteed, as well as entertainment. Danilo Gallo is one of the most versatile and highly regarded Italian bassists, at ease in various stylistic contexts. He ranges naturally from jazz to rock, from improvised music to collaborations that see music interacting with other disciplines such as theater, dance, poetry, and cinema. He is the leader or co-leader of internationally renowned groups such as Dark Dry Tears, Gallo The Roosters, Guano Padano, The Last Coat of Pink, and the project Lacy In The Sky with Diamonds (with Roberto Ottaviano and Ferdinando Faraò). Among the many musicians he has collaborated with are Uri Caine, Marc Ribot, Gary Lucas, Mike Patton, Bill Frisell, Rob Mazurek, Hamid Drake, Chris Speed, Jim