Idea and organisation by Alessandra Crocco and Alessandro Miele
Sound management Stefano De Ponti
Produced by Progetto Demoni
From July 5 to 12
Napoli
Today’s readers presented as true revolutionaries, ready to retain new supporters, in a society where reading is evermore an exclusive and uncommon practice. The idea is to entrust Neapolitan adolescents with the task of “re-educating adults”, forming secret inter-generational groups gathering in different private homes to read out loud. As conclusion to the “Books Revolution”, the Progetto Demoni offers three different shows based on literary works, characterised by unconventional modalities of practice and set in non-theatrical sites.
The first, scheduled to take place at Palazzo de’ Liguoro di Presicce (Napoli) on July 5 and 6 from 16.00 to midnight and on July 6 and 7 from 19.00 to 22.00, is entitled “Demoni – Frammenti/Demons – Fragments”. It consists of a series of short performances for one or few audience members, set in non-theatrical venues.
The second (July 9 and 10, from 18.00 to 23.00 at Tribunali 138, in Napoli) is entitled “Come va a pezzi il tempo/How time shatters into pieces” and takes audiences in an abandoned household where time seems to have stopped.
The third, “L’ultimo valzer di Zelda/Zelda’s last waltz” (July 12 at 18.00 at Palazzo Venezia) tells the story of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, and of his wife Zelda Sayre, during the years of the economic-boom until the Great Depression of 1929. The show is preceded at 18.00 by the public conference “La rivoluzione dei libri”.
