BY CARLO GOLDONI
ADAPTATION MAURIZIO SCAPARRO, FERDINANDO CERIANI
DIRECTED BY MAURIZIO SCAPARRO
WITH PINO MICOL, VITTORIO VIVIANI, MANUELE MORGESE, RUBEN RIGILLO, CARLA FERRARO, MARIA ANGELA ROBUSTELLI, EZIO BUDINI, GIULIA RUPI, ALESSANDRO SCARETTI
MUSIC NICOLA PIOVANI
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN LORENZO CUTULI
LIGHT DESIGN MAURIZIO FABRETTI
CHOREOGRAPHIC MOVEMENTS CARLA FERRARO
PRODUCTION FONDAZIONE TEATRO DELLA TOSCANA
DATES 8, 9 JUNE (H. 21.30)
VENUE TEATRO MERCADANTE
RUNNING TIME 2H INTERVAL INCLUDED
LANGUAGE ITALIAN
Written in 1750 La bottega del caffè (The Coffee Shop) is one of Carlo Goldoni’s best known comedies. Placed in the centre of the square, the bottega is the meeting place for both regulars and passers-by; it is its own micro-cosmos where a variety of dynamics are created between the characters, who argue, help each other, and the take interest in the matters of each other.
«There are various reasons – explains Maurizio Scaparro – that encouraged me to make this new edition of La bottega del caffè, and one of these was the desire to talk about Venice and its Carnival once more, the period in which this comedy takes place, from the first lights of dawn until nightfall. And it is here that Goldoni seems to distance himself from the magic of one of the most beautiful cities in the world to describe his Bottega del caffè, a Venice comically deformed and which already then risked betraying its grandeur. Not by chance Don Marzio, the protagonist, observes the same events described (and lived) that are observed by Goldoni through his looking glass, a diabolical lens with which he spies curiously on the facts, hypocrisies and eccentricities of others».
