Collateral Events

Napoli Teatro Festival Italia once again will host in the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli conversations with artists and protagonists from the theatre field. Debates and round tables will be the opportunity to delve into the themes of the Festival: the connection between theatre and city, the collective experience of theatre and the reinterpretation of great classics. The PAN will also become the working-site for theatre artists and professionals, international guests and news reporters that will make up a community for the entire month of the Festival.

After the success of last year’s edition, the Festival will continue every night with the afterfestival at PAN accompanied by lounge music and American bar: an occasion to meet the protagonists and other guests of the review.
This year, the websites www.delteatro.it and www.teatro.org have come to an agreement with the Festival, offering an exchange of information and contents, along with the publishing of articles, interviews and reviews. Furthermore, three reporters from delteatro.it will take part in discussions and meetings at the PAN, dedicated to the recent events that have occurred within the Italian theatre scenario.
During the Festival, venues of the performance L’attesa will feature structures designed by twenty students that have taken part in the workshop Il Teatro in città. The project is a result of the collaboration between the Fondazione Campania dei Festival and the Faculty of Architecture in Naples. The workshop – attended by 20 students selected on a national scale – took off in 2010 and has been attended by some of the major names in architecture, of the arts, of set and graphic design such as George Tsypin, Gordon Young and Topotek.
The collaboration between Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and the art galleries and museums of the city proceeds. This year, Studio Trisorio in Naples will host the video installation by Ming Wong (who will also take part in the Festival with Devo partire. Domani) entitled Life & death in Venice, a work inspired by Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, and that debuted in the 2010 Berlinale.
The works by Renzo Francabandera, drawer and illustrator involved with theatre since many years, will make up the project Disegnando Napoli Teatro Festival Italia: Francabandera will follow and “recount” through his drawings the shows of the Festival during their staging. The drawings will then be exhibited at the PAN museum, telling “a story in the story” of the Festival.
Even the Mimart gallery (via Francesco Solimena, 50) will take part in the Festival (from June 4 to 30) hosting a collective exhibition of paintings made by six young artists that will be presenting works of different languages and techniques.
The Hermés brand will present inside its studio in via Filangieri (from June 4 to 18) Foot Ball by Marcus Tomlinson. Being inspired by fairy tales and by popular tradition, the artist has made a film that tells of an imaginary day spent wearing Hermés shoes.
The Festival has entrusted the students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli to make a photo-report on the Miano district and on the former beer factory, converted by the Festival in a theatre venue for shows and performances. The photos will be exposed during an exhibition inside the area, and will be donated to the Miano town council at the end of the Festival.
The partnership with the association The Co2 Crisis Opportunity Onlus is also renewed. The company, active in Lebanon and Brazil aims at the professional training in audio-video material of underserved young people. The association will send two of its cameramen, Mohammad El Kayed and Julinho Junior Rezende, that will document the days of the Festival.
The collaboration with Lettera 22, the theatre critic competition that selects each year five young critics through a national public announcement, is also confirmed: the project will conclude with an awarding ceremony for the winners during a special meeting at the PAN.