DI/BY JEAN GENET
TRADUZIONE/TRANSLATION GIORGIO PINOTTI
CON/WITH ANDREA GIORDANA, GIUSEPPE ZENO, VALENTIN, MELANIA GIGLIO
DANZATORI/DANCERS YARI MOLINARI, GIOVANNI SCURA
REGIA/DIRECTED BY DANIELE SALVO
MUSICHE ORIGINALI/ORIGINAL MUSIC MARCO PODDA
COREOGRAFIE/CHOREOGRAPHY RICKY BONAVITA
SCENE/SET DESIGN FABIANA DI MARCO
COSTUMI/COSTUME DESIGN DANIELE GELSI
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN BEPPE FILIPPONIO
VIDEOPROIEZIONI/PROJECTIONS AQUA MICANS
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION MARIOLETTA BIDERI PER BIS TREMILA
date/dates 30 giugno/june h 21.00
1, 2 luglio/july h 19.00
luogo/venue teatro sannazaro
durata/running time 1h 20min
lingua/language italiano/italian
paese/country italia/italy
Daniele Salvo brings one of Genet’s most controversial works to Naples. Towards the end of 1956 Jean Genet met the young circus artist Abdallah Bentaga, son of an Algerian acrobat and a German woman. A relationship was born and which took them to travel throughout Europe together. During their travels, Genet sought to convince Abdallah, who was a juggler and acrobat who performed on the ground, to climb onto the tightrope. He pestered the young acrobat incessantly, forcing him to undergo exhausting training. Abdallah fell for the first time in 1959, but mounted the tightrope once more. He then joined the Orfei Circus troupe for a tournée in Kuwait but fell once more; that last fall that marked the end of his career. Genet was convinced that in Abdallah – his narcissist alter ego – he had created a masterpiece. Due to the inexperience and weakness of the young man, however, this was ruined as the author wrote in a letter to a friend. In 1964 Abdallah committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates and cutting his wrists. Seven years before, Genet had written a short prose poem, The Tightrope Walker about and for Abdallah.
