INTERPRETED AND DIRECTED BY ARTURO CIRILLO
SET DESIGN DARIO GESSATI
COSTUMES GIANLUCA FALASCHI
ORIGINAL MUSIC FRANCESCO DE MELIS
LIGHT DESIGN MAURO MARASÀ
CO-PRODUCTION FONDAZIONE CAMPANIA DEI FESTIVAL – NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALIA, MARCHE TEATRO – TEATRO STABILE PUBBLICO
Project founded
with POR FESR 2007-2013 “La cultura come risorsa”
World premiere
Language Italian
Running time: 1h 30m
Venue Teatro Sannazaro
Dates
15/06/2014 21:30
16/06/2014 21:30
Written in 1975 by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Scende giù per Toledo is a sad but at the same time light-hearted story of the life of Rosalinda Sprint, a Neapolitan transvestite in her continual search for love. This work is brought to the Festival stage by one of the most interesting Neapolitan actors and directors, Arturo Cirillo who also interprets the monologue. «The text distances and identify itself with Rosalinda Sprint, “who is like badly cut paper model, the scissors have cut away part of the inner border, leaving a smaller than life silhouette” said Patroni Griffi. A highly musical, physical and continually itinerant text that shifts continually between the first and the third person; a flow of words that become flesh and sometimes even dance. A desperate tango, a jig at the edge of a precipice, a scream to keep death afar. An imaginary sister and precursor of Ruccello’s Jennifer and many of Moscato’s characters, Rosalinda Sprint is the invention of a place that has never existed; the sounds of the city of Naples, its changes in mood, a place that has never been more metaphysical».
