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La Gatta sul Tetto che Scotta
Premiere 29 aprile 2025
Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Carignano
By
Tennesse Williams
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Director
Leonardo Lidi
Translation
Monica Capuani
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Set and Light Designer
Nicolas Bovey
Costume Designer
Aurora Damanti
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Sound Designer
Claudio Tortorici
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Assistant Director
Alba Maria Porto​​​​
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Scene photo
Luigi De Palma
with
Margaret
Valentina Picello
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Brick
Fausto Cabra
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Big Daddy
Nicola Pannelli
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Big Mama
Orietta Notari
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Gooper
Giordano Agrusta
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Mae
Giuliana Vigogna​​​​​
Fantasma
Riccardo Micheletti​
Bambina
Greta Petronillo​
Reverendo
Nicolò Tomassini
"a Cat on the roof of today's america "
(https://www.teatroecritica.net/2025/06/una-gatta-sul-tetto-dellamerica-di-oggi/)
"there's something terrible about reality, and I don't know what it is.
No one tells me..."
(Maggie)
"Hot Theatre: Leonardo Lidi and tennesse william' Cat"
(https://www.illibraio.it/news/dautore/teatro-la-gatta-sul-tetto-che-scotta-1473122/)
Sequins and Pastels...
Contemporary Clothing inspired by the American Nouveau Riche
"Monica Capuani's beautiful translation, as always, is very attentive to the potential of the recitative and, without unnecessary 'imitations,' offers, beyond any literary genre, a language that perfectly supports the director's highly contemporary vision. Nicolas Bovey's sets and lighting, Aurora Damanti's costumes, and Claudio Tortorici's soundscape complement the setting well".
(Maria Dolores Pesce, https://www.sipario.it/recensioniprosal/item/16677-la-gatta-sul-tetto-che-scotta-regia-leonardo-lidi.html)
"The stage costumes designed by Aurora Damanti dress the characters with artificiality and apparent well-being: they are not the clothes of nobles but of wealthy bourgeoisie. They, always in the chromatic juxtaposition that has become a hallmark of Lidi's direction, represent the protagonists' 'emotional palette' of miserable frustration and greed".
(Lucia Medri, https://www.teatroecritica.net/2025/06/una-gatta-sul-tetto-dellamerica-di-oggi/)
"I wrote it and I'm writing it again: thirty-seven-year-old Leonardo Lidi, one of the greatest directors around today, isn't someone who makes theater; he devours it in bites that are both ravenous and furious...".
(Enrico Fiore, https://www.controscena.net/enricofiore2/?p=12095)
Behind the Scenes
Production
Teatro Stabile Torino - Teatro Nazionale​
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