TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY DIANNA PICKENS, RICCARDO CANESSA
DIRECTED BY RICCARDO CANESSA
WITH ROBERTA ASTUTI, LUCIA ROCCO, LEONA PELESKOVA, YURI NAPOLI, SERGIO BASILE
WITH THE SPECIAL PARTICIPATION OF RAINA KABAIVANSKA
SET, COSTUME AND VIDEO DESIGN ALFREDO TROISI
LIGHT DESIGN NUNZIO PERRELLA
PIANO MAURIZIO IACCARINO
PRODUCTION FAST FORWARD
DATES 19 JUNE (H. 20.00), 20 JUNE (H. 19.00)
VENUE TEATRO NUOVO
RUNNING TIME 1H 10MIN
LANGUAGE ITALIAN
«What you need to know is that I am now writing a beautiful and touching theatrical text of an American widow in Capri and an adventurer by the name of Dario Stavelli. It has never been easier for me to write. Day after day, I sit down and this touching dialogue just flows from the tip of my pen. The text is called Villa Rhabani. I have portrayed the whole Bay of Naples in well-constructed and intimate theatrical pièce». These are the words that Thornton Wilder wrote to his family about this text, still unpublished and recently discovered thanks to the work of Dianna Pickens, an avid researcher of Wilder’s works. Wilder’s letter is dated October 1920: the 23-year-old author, after having graduated from Yale before leaving for Rome to study Latin, spent a period of vacation in Sorrento and it was from there that he would travel to admire the beauty of nearby Naples and Capri. Indeed, it is Capri that is the backdrop for this text which has now been brought to the Festival stage by Riccardo Canessa.
