Pane o libertà – Giardino delle culture
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Paolo Rossi brings his new play to the Piccolo to use words and music to tell of his encounters with the great masters of the past - Jannacci, Gaber, De André, Fo... - and to use their ideas and dreams to re-evoke stories that help us to resist, to choose and to hope.
In this period characterised “more by questions than answers”, Paolo Rossi returns to the Piccolo with Pane o libertà. Su la testa, a new play which combines stand-up comedy, Commedia dell’Arte and Greek comedy to form the prototype for a different way of creating theatre: a project created in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano aimed at being a highly social theatrical event.
“I got the title Pane o libertà (Bread or freedom) from a book - explains Paolo Rossi -. I find it very meaningful, as it presents a choice between eating, living or having freedom”. The subtitle, Su la testa (heads up) was coined by the actor in 1992 for the programme that saw him crowned “the most rock of all Italian comedians”.
Together with the musicians Emanuele Dell’Aquila, Alex Orciari and Stefano Bembi, who make up the band Anciens Prodiges, Paolo Rossi leads the audience on a journey that begins with the archetypical figure of Harlequin (“who had a return ticket for the afterlife”) to reach what could be considered as his evolution, or rather a popular entertainer capable of ranging from the stalls to cabaret.
“Playing with the illusion of placing me on the stage - or on whatever we use as such according to need - both as an actor, as a character and as a person, I will re-evoke my lucid dreams made up of stories that are a help in resisting, in choosing between bread and freedom, or even of not choosing at all - continues Rossi -. These are stories of artists who I have been fortunate enough to encounter in real life. The maestros Jannacci, Gaber, De André,and Fo, and even the ghost of Callas, as well as the comedians from the Derby and other lesser-known people. I will speak about these phantasmagorical and poetic figures, figures that cannot be controlled by any small or big brother, who provide comfort and ideas for resistance and hope. I would like to do something that provides my comicality with an escape route to a social form of theatre, characterised by the poetry of the funny and the magical. The bare minimum. Just enough to boost the immune systems of the spectators present... or less”.
In this period characterised “more by questions than answers”, Paolo Rossi returns to the Piccolo with Pane o libertà. Su la testa, a new play which combines stand-up comedy, Commedia dell’Arte and Greek comedy to form the prototype for a different way of creating theatre: a project created in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano aimed at being a highly social theatrical event.
“I got the title Pane o libertà (Bread or freedom) from a book - explains Paolo Rossi -. I find it very meaningful, as it presents a choice between eating, living or having freedom”. The subtitle, Su la testa (heads up) was coined by the actor in 1992 for the programme that saw him crowned “the most rock of all Italian comedians”.
Together with the musicians Emanuele Dell’Aquila, Alex Orciari and Stefano Bembi, who make up the band Anciens Prodiges, Paolo Rossi leads the audience on a journey that begins with the archetypical figure of Harlequin (“who had a return ticket for the afterlife”) to reach what could be considered as his evolution, or rather a popular entertainer capable of ranging from the stalls to cabaret.
“Playing with the illusion of placing me on the stage - or on whatever we use as such according to need - both as an actor, as a character and as a person, I will re-evoke my lucid dreams made up of stories that are a help in resisting, in choosing between bread and freedom, or even of not choosing at all - continues Rossi -. These are stories of artists who I have been fortunate enough to encounter in real life. The maestros Jannacci, Gaber, De André,and Fo, and even the ghost of Callas, as well as the comedians from the Derby and other lesser-known people. I will speak about these phantasmagorical and poetic figures, figures that cannot be controlled by any small or big brother, who provide comfort and ideas for resistance and hope. I would like to do something that provides my comicality with an escape route to a social form of theatre, characterised by the poetry of the funny and the magical. The bare minimum. Just enough to boost the immune systems of the spectators present... or less”.
Credits
Giardino delle culture – via Emilio Morosini angolo via Bezzecca, Milano
11 July 2020, 9.30 p.m.
Pane o libertà
Su la testa
by and with Paolo Rossi
live music Emanuele Dell’Aquila, Alex Orciari, Stefano Bembi
a Teatro Stabile di Bolzano production
In collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo
The shows form part of the "Aria di Cultura" programme organised by the Municipality of Milan
In the event of bad weather performance will be cancelled
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• In order to prevent queues and crowding, we invite spectators to arrive at the venue no earlier than 30 minutes before the beginning of the performance.
• Spectators with a body temperature equal to or higher than 37.5°C will not be allowed access to the performance, and will have the right to a refund for their ticket.
The personnel at the entrance will have dedicated thermal scanners for measuring temperature.
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In the event that tickets have been forgotten, spectators are advised that it will not be possible to print the ticket before entering on the evening of the performance.
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