L’anima buona del Sezuan
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An ancient yet topical parable, a fun and bitter fable, full of questions on the emotions of good and evil, in which Brecht transforms the great movements in history, politics and ethics into epic poetry.
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Teatro Grassi
The actors from two Piccolo productions directed by Roberto Latini - in 2018 Il teatro comico and Mangiafoco in the current season - Elena Bucci and Marco Sgrosso stage The good person of Szechuan. Written by Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s, it is an ancient yet topical parable, a fable which the author, though his prophetic and lucid eye sharpened by persecution, transforms into a startling play through fragments of history, political questions and matters of ethics.
“The good person of Szechuan struck us for its balance between its cold and analytical examination and its poetic vein - wrote Bucci and Sgrosso in the director’s notes -. In a difficult period for the arts, we have chosen to take on this challenge with the instruments of an ancient Italian tradition; the masks and gestures of a form of Commedia dell’Arte translated for contemporary times. We are continuously working to blend languages, points of view, dialogue and audience participation, the grotesque and the tragic, the provocations regarding the present and the evocation of ancient poetry, as always trusting in the cathartic power of the theatre which transforms contradiction into an embrace”.
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes with interval
The actors from two Piccolo productions directed by Roberto Latini - in 2018 Il teatro comico and Mangiafoco in the current season - Elena Bucci and Marco Sgrosso stage The good person of Szechuan. Written by Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s, it is an ancient yet topical parable, a fable which the author, though his prophetic and lucid eye sharpened by persecution, transforms into a startling play through fragments of history, political questions and matters of ethics.
“The good person of Szechuan struck us for its balance between its cold and analytical examination and its poetic vein - wrote Bucci and Sgrosso in the director’s notes -. In a difficult period for the arts, we have chosen to take on this challenge with the instruments of an ancient Italian tradition; the masks and gestures of a form of Commedia dell’Arte translated for contemporary times. We are continuously working to blend languages, points of view, dialogue and audience participation, the grotesque and the tragic, the provocations regarding the present and the evocation of ancient poetry, as always trusting in the cathartic power of the theatre which transforms contradiction into an embrace”.
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes with interval
Credits
Piccolo Teatro Grassi
from 19 to 31 May 2020
L’anima buona del Sezuan
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Roberto Menin
project and stageplay by Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso
directed by Elena Bucci with the collaboration of Marco Sgrosso
with Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, Maurizio Cardillo, Andrea de Luca, Nicoletta Fabbri, Federico Manfredi, Francesca Pica, Valerio Pietrovita, Marta Pizzigallo
light design Loredana Oddone, original live music by Christian Ravaglioli
sound dramaturgy curated by Raffaele Bassetti
costume supervision Ursula Patzak in collaboration with Elena Bucci
sets and masks Stefano Perocco of Meduna
a Centro Teatrale Bresciano / Emilia Romagna Teatro coproduction
artistic collaboration Le Belle Bandiere
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