Disegno di Vito Matera, 2023
A beautiful and kind-hearted young woman, a man representing evil. Chiara Guidi – whose theatre is aimed at children and speaks to adults – follows the path of discovering and accepting that which is monstrous taken by Belinda, the heroine of the famous fairy tale, who is capable of bringing goodness out from the dark with the love she shows for the Beast.
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Teatro Studio Melato
Co-founder of the historical Societas Raffaello Sanzio (now known as Societas), Chiara Guidi has perfected an idea of infancy and of experimentation of the voice that questions theatre. The subject of her research this time is one of the most famous of traditional fairy tales.
«Belinda – explains Guidi – is the youngest of the family and, unlike her older sisters, incarnates an extraordinary beauty and kindness. She expresses it in all that she does. Until, one day, the monstrous Beast calls her, and she, out of Love, responds, agreeing to see him and to talk with what is extraordinarily ugly and evil. Why does she do it? To save a man, her father, even risking her life. Thus, a part of her accepts the Beast, and a part of the Beast accepts Belinda. How this happens is unclear, but it takes a battle to go to where something hides, and to hear a voice within another voice. [...] A play of interwoven multiplications and divisions that go beyond the logic of naming to embrace the logic of Love, where those names are blurred together.»
Recommended for audiences aged 8 and over
Duration: the play is currently in production
Co-founder of the historical Societas Raffaello Sanzio (now known as Societas), Chiara Guidi has perfected an idea of infancy and of experimentation of the voice that questions theatre. The subject of her research this time is one of the most famous of traditional fairy tales.
«Belinda – explains Guidi – is the youngest of the family and, unlike her older sisters, incarnates an extraordinary beauty and kindness. She expresses it in all that she does. Until, one day, the monstrous Beast calls her, and she, out of Love, responds, agreeing to see him and to talk with what is extraordinarily ugly and evil. Why does she do it? To save a man, her father, even risking her life. Thus, a part of her accepts the Beast, and a part of the Beast accepts Belinda. How this happens is unclear, but it takes a battle to go to where something hides, and to hear a voice within another voice. [...] A play of interwoven multiplications and divisions that go beyond the logic of naming to embrace the logic of Love, where those names are blurred together.»
Recommended for audiences aged 8 and over
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
Il mostro di Belinda
metamorfosi di un racconto
PREMIERE
based on an idea by Chiara Guidi
dramaturgy Chiara Guidi and Vito Matera
with Maria Bacci Pasello, Eugeniu Cornițel, Alessandro De Giovanni
and with the voices of (cast to be defined)
music Scott Gibbons sets, lighting, costumes Vito Matera
sound Andrea Scardovi
technician Francesca Pambianco
curated by Irene Rossini production
director Benedetta Briglia
technical director Eugenio Resta
on-site technical team Lorenzo Camera, Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini
administration Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
economic consultant Massimiliano Coli
a Societas production
co-produced with Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa and Fondazione Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani – Onlus
Recommended for audiences aged 8 and over
Tickets
Category of performance Co-production
Stalls full price € 40 | Discounted (under 26 and over 65) € 23
Balcony full price € 32 | Discounted (under 26 and over 65) € 20
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