Claudio Bisio in Genoa in the national premiere, directed by Giorgio Gallione
Genoa – In the first national team, own in Genoa, comes after a long wait My male life told to the National Theater. The show, based on the text by Francesco Piccolo and performed by Claudio Bisio, was already ready in December 2020, but due to the pandemic it had to wait to be able to go on stage. The to is at the Ivo Chiesa Theater Tuesday 18th January, it continues until January 23, 2022 to then travel across Italy – from Bolzano to Trieste, from Savona to Ancona, from Bergamo to Pescara – with a tour that ends in mid-March.
My life badly told (at this link it is possible buy tickets online) it’s a melologue, as the director of the theater defines it Davide Livermore, which merges music and words on stage: «It is a example of melody in support of poetry“. It’s a roccambolesco story of life, an autobiography that is transformed into a collective awareness by that generation of boomer, who has had numerous common experiences. Director Giorgio Gallione drew fromopera omnia by Francesco Piccolo to build a ironic and personal narration. Piccolo speaks in the text, but the experiences of Bisio and Gallione can also be read between the lines. And all this is accompanied by the engaging music of Paolo Silvestri, performed by the two musicians who will share the stage with Bisio, Marco Bianchi and Pietro Guerracino.
Claudio Bisio tells: “I recognize myself 98% in the things that Piccolo writes (that 2% the description of the wife), is one of the few authors that I reread several times because it always helps me to discover new. Ah a aplomb all his, an elegance in the prose, which I hope not to spoil with my way of speaking, agitated and prone to improvisation. The title we have taken it from great cartoonist Gipi, which he published My life designed for men, and the common thread is that desire to be like everyone else, to quote another great book by Francis ».
“It’s a stage of a journey that Claudio and I started with texts by Daniel Pennac a few years ago – explains the director Giorgio Gallione – We want to bring this contemporary man to the stage, with all his shortsightedness and oddities, who with a little irony tells his life, his impulses and his disappointments. We had brought Michele Greenhouse with The lying down, a text that talks about us boomer, the lack of communication with our children. Here we make the circle at 360 degrees by telling about us, from the first love stories of middle school to our life today. And as per tradition, we have decided to start this new journey in Genoa.
It’s a show that looks simple as far as the set design and costumes are concerned, but it’s about one very dense and complex narrative and textual filigree. It leaves no room for any kind of improvisation, it is the result of one engineering construction. The work with Silvestri also follows this logic: the find your freedom inside the box“.
Neither My male life told, Claudio Bisio is perfectly at ease in game between public and private, which has always characterized the texts of Francesco Piccolo, a sort of self-fiction that is modeled here on the protagonist but among whose folds many can recognize themselves. In the scene by Guido Fiorato, who also takes care of the costumes, stand out clusters of books and televisions turned on by the perennial interrupted signal, illuminated by the bright colors of the lights by Aldo Mantovani. conclusion of this bittersweet journey, in which you laugh and get excited, that life is perhaps not exactly what you lived, but what you remember. And that you don’t always live it how you want it, but how you want it. Indirectly the show is also one reflection on the art of storytelling, on how time modifies and transfigures events, idealizing the past, erasing bad memories and magnifying the good ones, thus reinventing reality in the magical order of the story. And a reflection on the fact that there is always a need for an interlocutor that you listen to and that gives rhythm to the narration, in the case of the theater of a real audience because, as Gallione says: «I monologues are always dialogues with a mute interlocutor“.
My male life told is staged in Genoa at the Ivo Chiesa Theater from Tuesday 18th to Sunday 22nd January 2022. The start of the show on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday is at 20.30, Thursday and Saturday at 19.30 and Sunday at 16. For more information contact the secretariat of the National Theater of Genoa via e-mail.
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