by Manlio Santanelli
with Fausto Russo Alesi e Imma Villa
direction Carlo Cerciello
scenes Roberto Crea
costumes Daniela Ciancio
music Paolo Coletta
lights Cesare Accetta
assistant director Walter Cerrotta
production Elledieffe e Teatro Elicantropo
Teatro Nuovo
June 8, H 19.00
June 9, H 21.00
June 10, H 19.00
timing 1 H 30 min
After the positive reception of critics and public for Scannasurice and Bordello di mare con città by Enzo Moscato, the Elledieffe and Carlo Cerciello continue the research work on contemporary Italian dramaturgy, with an authentic jewel: Regina madre by Manlio Santanelli.
The work of 1984, defined in its debut by Eugène Ionesco éxtraordinaire, can today be considered, to all intents and purposes, a classic and as such is re-read by Carlo Cerciello, who also partly intervened in the adaptation of the text. A deeply ambiguous drama, set in a place of the mind where two actors of the caliber of Fausto Russo Alesi and Imma Villa give life to a real duel between Mother and Son, fought with that deadly and fantastic weapon that is the word. A project of staging strongly desired and shared by Cerciello, Russo Alesi and Villa who, after working together two years ago, in the successful edition of the Fedra by Seneca at the Greek Theater of Syracuse, find themselves, today, again engaged in a complex test. The continuous recurrence of the characters to the lie, the continuous oscillation between truth and fiction, are unmistakable signs of the text developed in the staging, to declare on the one hand the fascination of the exercise of power and, on the other, the inability to grow, of become adults and finally get rid of the mother figure.
“In Regina Madre, one immediately gets the impression that the character of the Mother is actually the mirror, or rather, the projection of the suffering that grips the Son, deeply conditioning his existence; Santanelli, unites the same fate bankruptcy Alfredo and his sister Lisa, absent in the work, but continually mentioned. This play on the massacre, therefore, childishly acted and suffered, suggested me to stage the text, giving substance to the oneiric and psychological ritual of two brothers grappling with the ghost of the Mother».
Carlo Cerciello
