Formidable those seventies in Naples – Chronicle
Not an amarcord, not a we were better off, not a confession-story. ‘Napule’ 70 ‘is an exciting show about the magical 70s in Naples, but also about the 70 years of Claudio Ascoli, the old-young founder of the Chille della balanza company, author and star of the comedy scheduled today …
Not an amarcord, not a we were better off, not a confession-story. ‘Napule’ 70 ‘is an exciting show about the magical 70s in Naples, but also about the 70 years of Claudio Ascoli, the old-young founder of the Chille della balanza company, author and star of the comedy scheduled today at 9 pm at the Teatro delle Arts of Lastra a Signa. ‘Napule’ 70 ‘is a fun encounter between then and now bodies, all positively infected by the idea of changing the world even in the apparent impossibility: “The most beautiful things are not those that make sense, but those that have senses , which take your body, in totality “. It is a narrative between dream and reality, discontinuous, sometimes dark, often – hopefully – full of lights. Ascoli, and Sissi Abbondanza, his life and work partner for over 40 years, tell, play, invent, build, reveal and reveal a world. The grandfather, progenitor and manager of the Ascoli theater company, who died a few days before Claudio’s birth and again his father Antonio, a skilled builder of masks (Pulcinella) and objects for the theater, dialogue with presences-absences; to finish with a young critic who questions-undermines the actor about today and about the possible connections-links between Naples in the 70s and Florence today.
And now, after the lockdown, while the relationship is still in not only physical but social distancing and pushes us to choose between Life and Survival? “Man and the world – said Artaud, and the Chille with him – are possessed only by lightening”.
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