Presentata Teatrisismi la nuova stagione del Teatro Serra

The 2024/25 season of the Serra Theater in Naples was presented yesterday. Sixteen shows, eleven national premieres, a debut in Campania. From October 4 in Fuorigrotta, at Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

The taumaturgic word, the irreverent irony, poetry, music, dance as antidotes to the ills of our time. This is the proposal of "Teatrisismi" for the 2024/25 season of the Serra Theater in Naples. Sixteen shows, eleven national premieres, a debut in Campania, nine participants in various editions of the "Serra-Campi Flegrei" Award. The first show will be on Friday, October 4 at 9:00 p.m. with "L'anniversario reloaded". In Fuorigrotta, at Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

The current events and their dramas are the common thread chosen by the founders of the Flegreo space, Pietro Tammaro and Mauro Palumbo: racism, war, social alienation, climate crisis. The female issue is a major protagonist, with its demands and legacies, accompanied by reflections of a new generation of women and men who question the conditioning of society and education.

The season kicks off with "L'anniversario reloaded", a black comedy about men and their difficulty in loving. A man alone, looks at himself in the mirror and does not recognize himself. It's his anniversary, but his wife has left him. Keeping him company, a mysterious man who will help him understand how and when he became the person he sees reflected. A production of 'Le false partenze' by and with Gianluca d'Agostino, on stage with Agostino Chiummariello – Gennaro in 'Mare fuori' – until Sunday, October 6.

From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 of October, the first of the eleven premieres: "Una passione" by Valentina Diana. Actor and director, Armando Distinto – auditioning for the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei" 2023 – in the role of an extra, alone in front of the audience. The performance of the Passion of Christ has been canceled but he was not notified. Reluctantly in the spotlight, he decides not to withdraw and starts reciting fragments of the script, which he partly knows, interspersed with confessions about his feelings and thoughts. An act of poetry and courage that will become the true spectacle.

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 of October, the tribute band "The Endless Machine" returns by popular demand, founded in 2022 by Luca Melorio, Rita Genni and Ciro Miranti with their concert "Pink Floyd Experience", a study on one of the most visionary rock bands of all time, to reproduce atmospheres, themes and concepts, in an immersive atmosphere, enriched by films and video projections.

"Iside e la Luna fluo" is the story of the initiatory journey of a woman inspired by esotericism and ancient culture. Iside, Goddess and contemporary Woman, looks in the mirror, but instead of her own image, she sees three mysterious figures that will drag her on a journey, to discover her own Soul. A production of 'Teatro Nudo'. Text and direction by Francesca Esposito who performs with Carmela Ioime and Adriana D'Agostino. From November 15 to 17.

Friday 13th of December, the debut of "Terra" reality show from the end of the world that arises from the need to tell the excessive consumption and exploitation of our era, which are destroying the planet. In a post-apocalyptic scenario, two men decide to embark on a search for a promised land, but will be involved in a competition that will pit them against each other, ready to kill each other. By "Fare Arte & Cultura" and Theatron 2.0. Text and direction by Roberto Caccioppoli, interpreter together with Sara Missaglia and Riccardo Marotta (finalist at this year's National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei" with his own text). Until Sunday, December 15.

The year 2024 closes with the first representation in Campania of "Mis-Smarco", a feminine story by Valentina Illuminati on the 'Divine Comedy' which is life, especially when one decides to take it by the hand. Mis Smarco lives in the province, she is a woman like many others, loyal to the countless duties of daughter, sister, niece, partner... At the threshold of the 'forties', she decides to break free and tell the society around her. An actress, many personalities and just as many characters. A production of 'Elsinor Centro di Produzione Teatrale' and 'Numeri 11'. From December 20 to 22.

"Radici e oltre", a guest from January 10 to 12, is a work that breaks the fourth wall and takes us into the daily life of a theater company. A piece about the birth of a show, about the culture, thoughts, traditions that converge in the work. A theatrical and musical 'joke' that tells the audience about the love for an artist's life, through the conflicts between an actress and singer overwhelmed by anxiety, her patient accordionist, and an overwhelmed director. From an idea by Gianni Genovese, text and direction by Laura Pagliara – Marica in 'Un Posto al Sole' – with Nino Conte and Emanuele Iovino who participated this year in the auditions for the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei".

With the new year, in January, the series of world premieres begins. It starts with "Riccardo il Sovrano", an opera dedicated to the scandalous life of Riccardo Schicchi, restless entrepreneur, war photojournalist, man of the secret services, brilliant Emperor of porn. The mind behind Moana Pozzi and Ilona Staller, but above all the man who revolutionized the sense of modesty in our country starting from the '70s, when pornography was prohibited and clandestine representations. A production of 'Red Rogers' and 'Maccheroni Amari' written and directed by Pier Paolo Palma (auditioning for the "Serra-Campi Flegrei" Award in 2021), on stage with Georgia de' Conno and Eugenio Delli Veneri. From Friday 17 to Sunday 19 of January.

Love in the time of Prejudice is the central theme of "Dietro tutta" the new production of the Serra Theater. Between hilarious misunderstandings and unexpected situations, a love triangle experienced in a quiet town at the foot of the Alps, will offer the opportunity to explore themes such as racism and social tensions that mark the country, within a microcosm rigid in obsessive and anachronistic behavioral patterns. The protagonists are an irreproachable husband rooted in local traditions, the Roman wife assertive and enterprising, and the lover from the South representing a different, energetic, and vital Italy. Text and direction by Mauro Palumbo, with Pietro Tammaro, Sara Guardascione and Mario Cangiano. From February 7 to 9.

Winner of the 2024 edition of the National Festival of Theatrical Shorts "InCorti da Artemia" in Rome, twinned with the Flegreo space, "Le clementi" on the bill from February 21 to 23, addresses the tragic epic of women in sacred scriptures. Pure, chaste, unclean, sinful, holy, women in the Bible have always been a naked body on which men's fingers have inscribed eternal adjectives. An 'adjectival' condemnation that locks them in conceptual cages that leave no other possibility than being – and feeling – 'holy' or 'harlots'. Two sides of the same coin, two faces of the same round stone, suitable for stoning. By Maria Porzio, curated by the theater group Hirondelle.

A radio, two speakers and a direct line with listeners. This is the setting for a Women's Day dedicated to the 'female issue'. "La voce a te dovuta", inspired by the homonymous title of a famous poetic collection by Pedro Salinas, is an act of love, an antidote to any form of discrimination, of two sisters who question themselves and the listeners about today's society that still wants women, if not blatantly prisoners, certainly sedated. From an idea by Ettore Nigro and Anna Bocchino, accompanied on stage by her twin sister Clara (the latter a finalist in 2021 at the first edition of the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei", while the sister participated in the selections the following year). From March 7 to 9.

The month continues with an intertwining of arts curated by Akerusia Danza: on Friday, March 14, "Io e Picasso" a co-production by Itinerarte, with Mario and Ludovico Serra, Marcella Martusciello and Giorgia Palombi, and the unpublished adaptation of "Anna Cappelli" by Annibale Ruccello with Patrizia Eger and Sabrina D'Aguanno, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 of March. Artistic direction by Elena D'Aguanno. From March 14 to 16, a game of echoes and references that creates a narrative fabric made of music, gestures, and colors.

A fairy tale – contemporary – spring with Angela Dionisia Severino and her "Alice nelle fogne delle Meraviglie" directed by Lauraluna Fanina. A young woman runs on the cobblestones of the periphery and falls into a hole, finding herself in an underground world where all the repressed from the "above world" is concentrated. What will she discover? Will she want to go back up, or would she prefer to stay there among the 'castaways' of the city? A metropolitan and post-modern fairy tale Special Mention in the form of a short monologue at the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei" 2023. A urban fantasy that intertwines the oldest form of Neapolitan 'cunto' with experimental theater, to tell the excluded of modernity. From March 21 to 23.

Francesca Fedeli, the first winner in 2021 of the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei" author of "Una voce umana" investigates personal identity in the technological era that shortens distances and serializes what is most intimate and unique to us: our voice. Communication tool and meeting point between animality and humanity, it is the absolute symbol of Creation with which we have developed a very close relationship: in a few seconds we can record and listen to ourselves, but how does this technical reproducibility enter the 'self-perception'? Dramaturgy assistant, Giovanni Marco Ferone. From April 4 to 6.

With "Happy Sad Birthday", Gianluca d'Agostino, directed by Rossella Amato, launches a fierce criticism of the alienation of relationships emptied of meaning and truth that consume themselves on social media. It's Ferragosto, a man alone in a semi-deserted city for the summer holidays, turns 40. He will spend the entire day with his phone in hand, spying on the lives of others, competing with those born on the same day to see who receives more notifications, sinking deeper into the void of existential, mental, and emotional discomfort. But he will receive a strange gift package from an anonymous sender. From April 11 to 13.

The season closes, from May 9 to 11, with "Rainbow" an authentic testimony of war. A project by Francesco Rivieccio already a finalist, with the text in the form of a short monologue, of the 2023 edition of the National Prize "Serra-Campi Flegrei". The show tells the true story of the grandfather who at 17 was taken from the soccer field of his city to be recruited, between 1940 and 1945, as a sailor on the Italian submarine 'Enrico Toti', which took part in a submarine battle in the Ionian Sea with the English 'Rainbow', miraculously emerging victorious. Assistant director, Shanti Tammaro.

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