Mercadante Theatre - Arrevuoto 2009

(Neapolitan term for OVERTURN)
project organized by
Maurizio Braucci and Roberta Carlotto

2009 FOURTH MOVEMENT
DOUBLE CROSSES
Rewritings of Bertolt Brecht's, Evgenij Schwarz's, Carl Sternheim's, Lev Tolstoj's plays

31 March at 21.00 | "Pierrot" Theatre of Ponticelli
7 April at 18.00 | "San Ferdinando" Theatre
8 April at 11.00 | "Mercadante" Theatre *

The Dragon
by Evgenij Schwarz
directed by Maria Teresa Cesaroni and Anita Mosca
groups: Industrial technical institute "Marie Curie" and Liceo "Antonio Genovesi"

31 March at 21.00 | "Pierrot" Theatre of Ponticelli
7 April at 18.00 | "San Ferdinando" Theatre
8 April at 13.00 | "Mercadante" Theatre *

The Fruits of Culture
by Lev Tolstoj
directed by Sergio Longobardi and Andrea Saggiomo
groups: Commercial technical institute "Archimede" and Cultural association "Damm"

1 April at 21.00 | Auditorium Scampia
6 April at 18.00 | "San Ferdinando" Theatre
8 April at 19.00 | "Mercadante" Theatre *

Die Hose (The Underpants)
by Carl Sternheim
directed by Antonio Calone and Nicola Laieta
group: Liceo "Elsa Morante"

3 aprile ore 21.00 | Auditorium di Scampia
7 aprile ore 18.00 | Teatro San Ferdinando
8 aprile ore 15.00 | Teatro Mercadante*

Mac è bello
(Pun: Mac is beautiful-What beautiful!)
based on The Threepenny Opera of Bertolt Brecht
directed by Beppe Aurilia and Carmine Paternoster
groups: Comprehensive Institute "Amedeo Maiuri" and Secondary school "Carlo Levi"

5 April at 21.00 | Auditorium Scampia
6 April at 18.00 | "San Ferdinando" Theatre
8 April at 17.00 | "Mercadante" Theatre *

Round Heads and Pointed Heads
Terrifying story by Bertolt Brecht
directed by Antonella Monetti and Emanuele Valenti
groups: "Chi Rom e... Chi no" Association and Liceo Artistico of Naples

* final marathon
where it will be possible to see all the performances in the space of a day, at Mercadante Theatre, in collaboration with the Universal Forum of Cultures.

sets by Luigi Ferrigno and Armando Alovisi
costumes by Roberta Nicodemo and Francesca Capasso
lighting by Peppe Cino
stage photos by Marco Ghidelli

in collaboration with
Federica Lucchesini, " Hurtado" Centre, "Arci Movie" Association, Municipality n°8 Scampia
with the support of Regione Campania - European Social Fund - Assessorship for Culture of the Commune of Naples - Universal Forum of Cultures, "Punta Corsara" Festival Campania foundation

For the season 2008-2009, Arrevuoto has enlarged the number of the participating kids (more than 200) and neighbourhoods, involving others schools and others images.
So, in addition to the historic group of Scampia and Liceo Genovesi, have participated to the laboratories the kids of Ponticelli, Barra - S. Giovanni, Vomero, Montesanto and Foria.
The objective is to stage not only one performance but five, directed by couples of Neapolitan artists. Every staging is the result of the work of two groups of kids coming from two different areas of the city. A breakthrough, consistent with the initial idea of the project, experimented in the first three years: to try the new method of the non-school of the " Teatro delle Albe" company of Ravenna, and to adapt it to the Neapolitan situation.
The Neapolitan artists who assisted Marco Martinelli as "guides" during the previous editions, this year, organized in couples, have directed the performances and have worked on classical and modern texts, producing pure "rewritings" together with the kids of every group. The texts, even if of different authors, have in common a theme that draws a red line between the performances: the true and its rough drafts, through a critical discussion about the mystification, the deceit and the manipulation of human consciences.

Mercadante | Permanent Theatre of Naples
Piazza Municipio

San Ferdinando | Permanent Theatre of Naples
Piazza Eduardo De Filippo, 20

Theatre Auditorium | Scampia
Viale della Resistenza

Theatre Pierrot | Ponticelli
Via Camillo De Meis, 58

Arrevuoto 2009

Mercadante - Teatro stabile di Napoli