| Worldwide debut a tragedy in verses in the Flegreo language
by Mimmo Borrelli
adapted by
Mimmo Borrelli, Davide Iodice
directed by Davide Iodice
with Mimmo Borrelli, Floriana Cangiano, Davide Compagnone, Vincenzo Del Prete, Massimo De Matteo, Piergiuseppe Francione, Angelo Laurino, Stefano Miglio, Marco Palumbo, Michele Schiano di Cola
stage musicians Antonio Della Ragione, Lorenzo Niego, Guido Sodo
set design by Tiziano Fario
lighting design by Maurizio Viani
costume design Enzo Pirozzi
music composer and coordination by Guido Sodo
training and movement research Marina Rippa
make-up by Vincenzo Cucchiara
production Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli | Sciaveca is a word used by the fishermen along the Tyrrhenian seaside near the Campi Flegrei (close to Naples) to describe the drag-net typical of the coastal fishing, always dirty with muddy seaweeds and ooze. In the theatrical imaginary of Mimmo Borrelli, the thick-weft net is symbolical of the tangled patrimony of events, memories and myths of one of the richest historical areas of the Campania region. Thanks to a meticulous gathering of popular witnesses, the author built a mighty play in ten poems and three thousand blank hendecasyllables, composing an archaic yet extraordinarily modern epic poem.A man is dead, lost to the sea, but a year later from his disappearance, he amazingly returns on earth. Amid the irascible astonishment of his killers, who acclaim the miracle, and his personal exhaustion mixed with bewilderment, Tonino Barbone the protagonist believes everything happened the night before his messianic arrival. We however discover its the Sea that intones the verses of the escape, while nourishing and clearing the memory laxness of our stigmatic Messiah. |
