A number of innovative theater
productions focusing on historical events and figures such as
Freud and the deportation of workers to concentration camps
during the Nazi era will be staged this weekend across Italy.
'Freud o l'Intepretazione dei Sogni' ('Freud or the
Interpretation of Dreams') with Fabrizio Gifuni will be in
Milan, as will Maddalena Crippa with 'Matilde e il Tram per San
Vittore'. Productions based Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
at Rome's Teatro Argentina and one in homage to the Sicilian
author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa' at Naples' San Ferdinando
will also be on offer.
"Every epoch has a couple of books, not more, that sum it up
entirely - to the point of being a sort of catalog. For the
twentieth century it is Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams'.
We are the children of that book," said Stefano Massini in
talking about the genesis of his 'Freud o l'Interpretazione dei
Sogni' in its national debut at Milan's Piccolo Teatro Strehler,
starring Gifuni and directed by Federico Tiezzi.
He added that it is a staging that is a "dream within a
dream, a box containing another box. On one side Freud is
writing while on the other he acts, spending time with his
patients and characters and interacting with them."
Also at the Piccolo but in the Studio Melato will be
Maddalena Crippa - on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day
on January 27 - paying homage to those deported from Sesto San
Giovanni factories to concentration camps in 'Matilde e il Tram
per San Vittore' by Renato Sarti, who is also its director.
Inspired by Giuseppe Valota's book 'Dalla Fabbrica ai Lager',
the work tells the little-known story of the deportation of
workers from the area north of Milan. After strikes that began
stopping production in large factories in the Milan area - the
only ones under Mussolini and the largest in Europe - the homes
of Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Cinisello and surrounding areas
suffered round-upa in which 570 men were deported and over half
never returned. The production runs from January 24 to January
28.
A theatrical adaption of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
by Stefano Massini with Leo Muscato directing will be at Rome's
Teatro Argentina until February 4.
Ruggero Cappuccio will meanwhile be back this weekend at
Naples' San Ferdinando theater with his new work: 'Desideri
Mortali, Oratorio Profano per Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa',
which pays homage to the author of 'Il Gattopardo'.
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