Lo Zoo di Vetro
premiere 4 November 2019
Sala Teatro Lac - Lugano
By
Tennesse Williams
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Direction and Adaptation of the Text
Leonardo Lidi
Set Design and Light Design
Nicolas Bovey
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Costumes
Aurora Damanti
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Sound
Dario Felli
"Pop, Pink and Gloomy, is 'The Glass Managerie' by Leonardo Lidi."
(Teatro e critica.net)
Tom
Tindaro Granata
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Amanda
Mariangela Granelli
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Father/Jim
Mario Pirrello
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Laura
Anahì Traversi
with
"I give you Truth under the pleasant disguise of illusion"
(Tennesse Williams)
The Solitude and Hopper's
Melancoly Clowns Inspiration
a Work of Craftsmanship
fabric deying
I dyed the fabric of the father's pajamas, a light blue cotton with small stitching and rhombuses, in a bath of colors composed of powders of various shades of blue, recreating the color of the sketch and finding harmony with the shades of the set design.
shoes
The clown shoes were handcrafted from wise hands of the master Giuseppe Caputo who, starting from the sketches, made a prototype for each shoes, corrected several times until the final result was reached.
Flowers
The flowers had been painted on the same fabric used for making the pajamas, were then cut out and sewn on the various parts of the pajamas not yet assembled by the perfection of the master seamstress Deanna Bardazzi.
"... They have unnatural and styliz grace(...) but the clownish appearance doesn't want to be an expression of derision(...) it pushes them into an atmosphere of ethereal abstraction, it makes them a little dark and a little heartbreaking masks."
(Renato Palazzi, Il Sole 24Ore)
"Lo zoo di vetro by Tennesse Williams. Surrealism on stage".
(Sabrina Manavella, Il Chaos)
"The masterpiece by Tennesse Williams in a very persoanl and incisive interpretation by the director Leonardo Lidi in an italian premiere at Theatre Carcano in Milano. (...)
The key to read the show is the clownish one: in a pink house act Tom and Laura, dress up with the melancholy standard of the white clown, that it refers to the figre of Pierrot, while the mother Amanda is characterized by more extroverted traits that also manifest themselves in acting. The show opens with a suggestive glance, contributing factor the beautiful scenography and the perfect costumes respectively of Nicolas Bovey and Aurora Damanti (...)".
(Davide Cornacchione, Opera Teatro)
Behind the Scenes
Production
Lugano in Scena
Lac Lugano Arte e Cultura
Coproduction
tPE Piemonte Teatro europa
in partnership with
Centro teatrale Santa Cristina