The lives and ambitions of great
women and men from the last century are taking center stage in
2018, in the second half of the theater season in Italy.
The first star of the new year is Dutch painter Vincent Van
Gogh, the protagonist of the play "L'odore assordante del
bianco" (The deafening smell of white) that is debuting at the
Naples Theater Festival ahead of a tour across Italy.
Alessandro Preziosi stars in the play directed by Stefano
Massini.
The father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud is the focus of
"Freud o l'interpretazione dei sogni" (Freud or the
interpretation of dreams), a play written by Stefano Massini
with Fabrizio Gifuni with a cast directed by Federico Tiezzi to
perform at Milan's Piccolo Theater on January 23 through March
11.
Valentina Lodovini and Ivano Marescotti have written a play
based on key speeches by greats ranging from Demosthenes to
Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi, John F. Kennedy, Winston
Churchill, Fidel Castro and Umberto Eco debuting in Gubbio on
January 20.
The piece is called "I have a dream - The words that have
changed history".
Thomas Sankara, one of the most charismatic figures of the
1900s who transformed Burkina Faso just in three years,
implementing legislation to promote gender equality,
vaccination, education against genital mutilation, Aids,
desertification and illiteracy, is played by Alberto Malanchino
in "Verso Sankara" (Towards Sankara) at the Franco Parenti
Theater in Milan on May 8-20.
José Valenzuela Levy, known with the battle name of commander
Ernesto, who at just 28 in 1986 organized a failed coup against
Chile's then-dictator Augusto Pinochet, which was followed by a
crackdown known as the Matanza of Corpus, is the star of
"L'acrobata" by Laura Forti.
The play, directed by Elio De Capitani, debuts at Milan's
Elfo Puccini on January 8 through February 4.
German-born Israeli author Savyon Liebrecht's The Banality of
Love, directed by Piero Maccarinelli is debuting at Naples'
Mercadante Theater on February 28 until March 11.
Italian Nobel laureate Rita Levi Montalcini is the
protagonist of "Le parole di Rita" (Rita's words), written by
Valentina Patera and Andrea Grignolio and interpreted by Giulia
Lazzarini, debuting at Rome's Vittoria Theater on May 8-13.
Other prominent plays on the 2018 calendar include "Mozart"
by Giuseppe Cederna at Rome's India Theater on January 10-21 and
the "Giudizio Universale" (Universal judgement) by Marco Balich,
written in cooperation with the Vatican Museums, opening on
March 15 at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, just a few steps
from the Sistine Chapel.
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