Ramblas, vie permanenti dell’arte di strada: seconda edizione – set for June 18, 19 and 20 in via Scarlatti, via Toledo, piazza Santa Maria La Nova and the Villa Comunale – will turn the streets of Naples into a construction site for street performances, just like in Barcelona. The artistic direction of the project has been entrusted to Giulio Barbato and Javier Benegas, that together with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia are promoting a petition to approve municipal laws that will acknowledge and safeguard street art in Naples. The petition will continue in the venues of the Festival throughout the three days of Ramblas.
Immanuel Kant by Thomas Bernhard, and directed by Alessandro Gassman – who for the first time will only direct – is a play never before staged in Italy, that is set for June 18 and 19 at 8pm and for June 20 at 10pm, inside the Teatro Mercadante. “The core of the play – explains Gassman, great connoisseur of the Austrian author – is the recount of a world that grows blinder, that can no longer see beyond the tip of its own nose and has no clue on what goes on around because it is much too concerned in talking rather than listening”. For the staging of the play Gassman will collaborate with the Teatro Gioco Vita of Piacenza. On the stage Manrico Gammarota will interpret the role of Kant, while two male actors will play female roles: Mauro Marino will in the rich shrew and Paolo Fosso in the philosopher’s wife.
Napoletango, the new show by Giancarlo Sepe, set to be staged for Napoli Teatro Festival Italia on June 18 and 19 (at 10pm) in the Teatro di San Carlo, is a hymn to life that with 15 actors, dancers, singers and acrobats, chosen among over two thousand applicants auditioning, will invade the San Carlo theatre. On stage and in the stalls to the rhythm of tango, but not the traditional “sad thought danced”: Napoletango is in fact the triumph of life over posh academy, the success of bloodshed love over prudence and intimacy.
