directed by Marco Sciaccaluga
scenes and costumes Guido Fiorato
lights Sandro Sussi
with Massimo Mesciulam, Aldo Ottobrino, Cristiano Dessì, Alice Arcuri, Fabrizio Careddu, Antonio Zavatteri, Alberto Giusta
co-production Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Teatro Stabile di Genova
World premiere
Language italian
Country Italia
running time: 2h 30 min
Luogo Museo Nazionale di Pietrarsa (Sala dei 500)
Date
12/06/2013 ore 20:45
13/06/2013 ore 20:45
1927. The world chess championship sees the battle between the reigning champion José Raul Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, who won the title by winning six games against three of his opponent. This is the basis for the text by Luca Viganò. Marco Sciaccaluga thus brings on stage the story of the “white king” of chess, the Cuban José Raul Capablanca and the “black king”, the Russian Alekhine, of their friendship and their rivalry, their reverse parables which have as background the events of the early twentieth century.
Capablanca has it all: the title of champion of the world, love, good life, but let it slip through his fingers. Alekhine spend his entire life trying to fill an emptiness that began with his exile and continued with the “betrayal” of his friend and almost big brother Capablanca. Structured on the thread of an open dramaturgy, which proceeds through a number of scenes in which intertwine different places and the time does not always flow in a linear way, Il gioco dei re depicts human relationships and conflicts with the passionate rationality with which you play a game of chess.
