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Zio Vanja
Progetto Checov - Seconda tappa
Premiere 24 June 2023
Festival di Spoleto - teatro Caio Melisso
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By
Anton Cechov
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Direction
Leonardo Lidi
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Set and Light Design
Nicolas Bovey
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Costumes
Aurora Damanti
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Sound
Franco Visioli
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Still Photographer
Gianluca Pantaleo
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Costumes realizes by
Sartoria Teatro Piccolo di Milano
e
Francesco Boscolo
With
(in ordine alfabetico)
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Telegin
Giordano Agrusta
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Professor
Maurizo Cardillo
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Helena
Ilaria Falini
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Marija
Angela Malfitano
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Marina
Francesca Mazza
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Astrov
Mario Pirrello
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Old Vanja
Tino Rossi
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Vanja
Massimiliano Speziani
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Sonja
Giuliana Vigogna
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Forrest
"Three houses, or perhaps the same one, three families, or perhaps the same one, and love that supplants work: this strange family sung by Chekhov has the face of Gaber" ...
(https://www.festivaldispoleto.com/eventi/zio-vanja)
..."His irreverent mask. Or better yet Freak Antoni. May it be out of tune and ungrammatical. Defeated by its own ghosts" continues the director...
(https://www.festivaldispoleto.com/eventi/zio-vanja)
..."in Uncle Vanya art is relegated to a museum concept, the stuff of aristocratic pamphlets, a sterile intellectualism that no longer thinks of its people, which bores passion and allows the incapable to make a living from the theatre." says the director...
(https://www.festivaldispoleto.com/eventi/zio-vanja)
welcome to the world
of
60s and 70s
some reviews
(...) "Aurora Damanti's costumes, exceptional, gaudy, cumbersome, only emphasize this circus of souls out of place in a time that has already been and will not be in the future. For this reason, the fake suicide in the finale it can only be an onomatopoeia pronounced by Vanya as if he were reading a comic, «PUM!», and the laughter that can be heard echoing in the room, those too are fake, from old television sitcoms.". (...)
(Lucia Medri, Teatroecritica, https://www.teatroecritica.net/2023/07/lidi-cechov-e-le-betulle/)
(...) "The unlikely eponymous hero has the face of Massimiliano Speziani, the brown trousers of thick fabric of someone accustomed to hard work, and the pink shirt buttoned up to the chin of someone who nevertheless aspires to a surface elegance: the brilliant chromatic solution of the costume, designed by Aurora Damanti, amplifies that existential disorientation and social marginalization from which Vanya seeks redemption in vain.". (...) “everyone, in this corner of Russia so similar to the Italian province of the late sixties, seems to bear the crystalline traces of a defeat in their clothing, gestures, and timbre of voice”. (...)
(Alessandro Iachino, https://www.stratagemmi.it/una-lunga-lunga-sequela-di-giorni-zio-vanja-e-leonardo-lidi/)
(...) "The director limits the space for movement of the actors, who are all frontal, dressed in 70s clothes, while the women wear Jackie Kennedy-style wigs as heavy as their thoughts" (...)
(Angela Calvini, https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/cechov-si-scopre-ecologista-nello-zio-vanja-di-lidi)
wigs what a passion
...when you are not a hairdresser but you devise all the methods to look professional...
Styling:
curlers, combs, goose beaks and lots and lots of hairspray...
Here are the 60s-70s
tailoring department
in
Spoleto
fitting rooms
where you work and have a lot of fun
Production
TSU- Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria
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in co - production with
Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale
in collaboration with
Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
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