
Ricordate Giulietta degli Spiriti? Do you remember Juliet of the Spirits?
A wonderful cinematographic project by Federico Fellini inspired byf his short story ‘Giulietta’ published by the Swiss publisher Diogenes, to then become the film Giulietta degli Spiriti, a long spirit session populated by magicians and visionaries and without doubt one of the Maestro’s masterpieces,
Valter Malosti wanted to stage a theatrical version of the story, written all in subjective as a flow of consciousness of the protagonist and freely adapted by Vitaliano Trevisan.
Roberta Caronia is the extraordinary protagonist, a Juliet who, like a contemporary Alice in the mirror, lives in a poignant psychoanalytic fairy tale, childish and at the same time disturbing, surrounded by disturbing characters, such as the suggestive puppets of Gianni Busso and nailed in the center of a track of a circus, The circus, a world dear to Fellini and always a source of inspiration.
“This intoxication, this emotion, this exaltation, this immediate feeling at home, I felt it immediately, the first time I entered the tent of a circus; and it wasn’t even the time for the show” writes Jacqueline Risset in his book ‘The Enchanter’, “it was early in the morning and under the golden awning that barely breathed, like a large warm, welcoming panciona, there was no one. There was a great enchanted silence, from afar the voice of a a woman who sang the clothes and alone, the neigh of a horse, somewhere. I was kidnapped, suspended, like an astronaut abandoned on the moon who finds his spaceship “.I would like to mention the incisive scenographic productions of Paolo Baroni and the beautiful lights by Francesco Dell’Elba. Patrizia Tirino has designed tutu dresses ranging from the fairy tale and the dream, the original music by Giovanni D’aquila and reconstruction and the musical reworkings by Fabio Cinicola that inevitably lead us to and atmospheres of Nino Rota. On stage 14, 15 July 2020
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Despite some technical issues, the show captured the audience, as usual.
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