durata: 1h 30m | Paese: Italia | Lingue: italiano
Galleria Toledo – 28/09/2012, 21:00 – 29/09/2012, 21:00 – 30/09/2012, 21:00
Coproduzione Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Galleria Toledo
To inaugurate the 2012/2013 theatre season of the Gallery Toledo, Laura Angiulli, artistic direc-tor of the same theatre brings a new adaptation of ’O Paparascianno by Antonio Petito to the Naples stage. A key figure in Neapolitan theatre of the 1800’s, Petito was perhaps the most loved interpreters of Pulcinella, the star of Naples’ traditional theatre. Notwithstanding his being illiterate, he was a talented dramatist: his fanciful and unbridled inspiration earned him the nickname of Totonno ‘o pazzo (Totonno, the crazy one).
’O Paparascianno was written in 1872 and its modernity, according to Angiulli «reveals signs of the solid dramaturgical talent of the author which is evident in his bravura when creating his characters, depicted in an opportunely humorous vein. At the centre, we have a rigid and stern father who wants to concede to his young daughter to an older and wealthy older man, we also have her sweetheart with the allusive name of Frongillo, the lawyer-Tartaglia and the skinny, semi-delinquent Pantalea who arrives just in time to stir up the finale and a series of other minor characters. Each of the characters in his or her own way a protagonist, intervenes to add new verve to the choral performance. The character of Pulcinella is fundamental in the complex characterisation. As an undisputed deus ex machina, he adventurously works towards the brilliant solution and is omnipresent throughout the drama, conditioning the outcome of everything and everyone».
