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’A CITTÀ ‘E PULECENELLA
Following the triptych MA#IA#NO - _Pathetic Affective Captivity _(2013), _The Best of All Possible Worlds1980-2025 _(2014) and _Miracle to Maiano _(2015) - 'to città 'e Pulecenella, is the fourth production that Compagnia "Sine Nomine," born and active at the Maiano House of Reclusion led from Giorgio Flamini, is producing at the Spoleto Festival.
A revived Goethe, an admiring spectator of Naples in his Italienische Reise, guides the viewer through the different pictures, while a host of Punchinellos, masked and mute, escort and compel him toward meandering, increasingly intimate and dark meanders of the prison city: to to make the different passages more intelligible, it will be said that to making themselves known to the audience are the De Filippo, characters from the Smorfia, Gaetano (Tanino) Filangieri, Eleonora Pimentel de Fonseca, Queen Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine, Totò, Cimarosa (with his "Serenata"), Neo-Melodic Neapolitan song. The attention focused on Pulecenella has nothing coloristic or farcical about it in Giorgio Flamini, but arises from an emergency: the realization of the weight, the prominence, the intensity of the Neapolitan presence within the Company, so if almost every show has made room to moments, references, "Neapolitan" inlays, this time the director, as always in close cooperation with his Actors, has decided to leave full field to that substratum (linguistic, cultural, affective) on which, in any case and almost unintentionally, the work of the #SIne NOmine is nourished. But the operation is not only intended to offer the viewer a hundred pieces that, for the most part, will resonate as known, or already celebrated; Giorgio Flamini, with the toughness that increasingly clearly connotes his work as a "restricted" director, imposes a second-level reading in which the truth of the operation must be sought: forcing oneself to to think what are the thoughts, the affections, the memories of those who - at that moment, in front to us - evoke that Naples, to to which - not for fiction - he belongs by birth and of which he carries behind, and inside, the soul, the language, the smells, the places. The play, innervated on the thread of Neapolitan-ness, but constantly open to the question of "what does it mean, really" to live the prison experience, thus welcomes, necessarily, other voices: those dedicated to the theme of Justice (just after the entrance, and before the exit, leaking from huge boxes where some actors are locked up; to half of the 'opera, with the irruption of a totally "out of place" Walcott) and to the theme of Art (proposed in a darkly "un-salvific" framework).
Roberta Galassi
directed by Giorgio Flamini
by and with the** inmates actors, singers, dancers, playwrights, set designers, costume designers and pulecenella of the #SIne NOmine** company
assistant director and stage manager **Calogero Rocchetta **
prisoners/actors Roberto Di Sibbio, Mattia Esposito, Pasquale Marino, Nicola Paciullo, Giovanni Borrelli, Luigi Mansi, Abramo Saulino, Antonio Romito, Alessandro De Simone, Patrizio Trovato, Federico Gualtieri, Luigi Imparato, Claudio Rinaldi
Inmates/performers, extras and pulecenella Vincenzo De Falco, Octavio Espinal, Antonio Piemonte, Bruno Torsi, Giuseppe Monaco, Silvestro Indelicato, Peter Osayaie, Francesco Talia, Carmine Zuccariello, Gaetano Esposito, Giovanni Perna Capone, Pasquale Scafo, Angelo Cacisi, Andrea Principale, Salvatore Vigorito, Mirko Di Mario, Girolamo Montalto, Jacob Owusa, Claudio Rinaldi, Santo Aiello, Maurizio De Liberti, Agatino Arena, Mariano Cirillo, Carmine Buccelli, Giacomo Quaranta, Onofrio Pascazio, Giuseppe Annoscia, Sebastiano Petrone, Gianluca Bonvissuto, Vincenzo Romeo, Massimo Galletti, Eremigio Musone, Rosario Fusco, Egidio Santoro, Luigi Barbuto, Diego Bautista, Salvatore Fannulli, Salvatore Maddiona, Salvatore Buono, Mohamed Elover, Vincenzo di Blasi, Giuseppe Barreca, Tarik Abobi, Jumali Oner, Pasquale dell'Annunziata, Michele Pompeo, Roberto Esposito, Mario Pappalardo, Michele Cannatà, Ukuta Akporugo, Angelo Lucido, Massimiliano Pasqualone, Luigi Morelli, Raffaele Gallo, Mario de Miro, Vincenzo Attanasio, Carmine Caso, Biagio Rapicano, Massimo Messere, Cosimo Marino, Mario Abbatiello, Bruno Belsole, Patrizio Corcione, Orazio Ficarra, Davide Granato, Vincenzo Cacace, Giuseppe Funira, Lucio Stefano Cera, Vincenzo di Maio, Steve Forastieri, Italo Gallo, Leonardo Grippi, Vladimir Haxhio, Piero Pavone, Antonino Tripodi, Luigi Albanese, Mari Luigi, Pompeo Michiele, Vincenzo Tripodi, Alessandro Ferrentino, Guglielmo Giuliano, Daniele Reale, Luigi Della Volpe
and with
**Diletta Masetti, Sara Ragni, Marcello Gravina, Alessandra Cimino, Enrico Cattani, Loretta Bonamente, Giorgia Fagotto **
dancers Margherita Costantini, Serena Perna, Livia Massarelli
violin and mandolin** Monica Pontini **
choreography ** Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio**
music Fabrizio De Rossi Re
sound designer Fabrizio Chiostri
scene realization Renzo Proietti Costa, Ludovico Curti, Guerrino Fioretti, Massimo Meriggioli, Massimo Moriconi, Sabino Scarabottini, Sandro Cimarelli, Claudio Ranucci directed from Giuliana Bertuccioli, Giorgio Flamini and Giuseppe Mascaro
costumes Sofia Verna, Pina Segoni
lighting design Gianluca Ciamarra, Lido Paoli
research adaptation word processing Roberta Galassi, Rita Cerioni, Luciana Santirosi, Giorgio Flamini
language text adaptation **Silvia Matricardi **and Sofia Verna
trailer Videomaker
contribution to promotional trailer **Azimut **and Cesp Rome
makeup and hair by Sandro & Antonello and Pina Segoni
tailoring Sofia Verna
volunteer **Sabrina Cardinali **
texts by** Solon, Livio, Virgil, Eduardo De Filippo, Antonio De Curtis Totò, la Smorfia, Massimo Troisi, Pino Daniele, Gaetano Filangieri senior, Eleonora P. De Fonseca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Derek Walcott, Giorgio Agamben and #SIneNOmine**
Opera 26 s.to.s audio and lighting service by Bisaccioni & C.
logistics organization** Carlo Capitanio, Edoardo Cardinali, Floriano Ceppi, Roberto Pallotta, Cristina Sabini, Morris Reali, Emiliano Pollano, Salvatore Masala, Salvatore Messina, Luca Bellodi, Alessandro Lauria, Sandro Cimarelli**
photos Tania Agostini, Vincenzo Porfilio, Antonello Zeppadoro, Kim Mariani
service sponsors Angela Brides, Idea Mode, Rita Cerioni, Sofia Verna
show supported from Maiano Prison in Spoleto, IIS Sansi Leonardi Volta, Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation
and sponsored from Antigone Onlus
we thank the Director of the House of Reclusion Luca Sardella, Head of School Roberta Galassi, Commandant Marco Piersigilli, area head Tiziana Porfilio, educators, all the staff of the Penitentiary Police; the probation office, the Supervisory Magistrate Grazia Manganaro and Fabio Gianfilippi; all the inmates who work at Mof
The #SINENOMINE project began as a theater workshop for the staging of Jean Genet's Sorveglianza speciale to 30 years after Marco Gagliardo's experience in 1982 at the 25th Festiva dei Due Mondi.
The #SN theater workshop, which started with fifteen inmates, over the years has exceeded one hundred participants, of all ages and nationalities, from from various security circuits, aged between 20 and 70, able to play different roles (playwright, actor, dancer, assistant director, assistant set designer, props man, audio-visual officer, stage manager ...). After the first experience, the project continued with the #MA#IA#NO# trilogy composed from three plays written with the involvement of the inmates: _Pathetic Affections/Affective Activity, The Best of All Possible Worlds 1980 2025, Miracle to Maiano_La, included in the programming of the 56th, 57thand 58th Festival dei Due Mondi. Thereafter, from 2016 to 2022, the Spoleto Festival hosted a new production each year: 'to città 'e Pulecenella, Nessuno, VICTIMS, Nessuno Torna to Itaca si non se noverit, Storia Vera 'e capite comm'è, Sempre in quell'aura Sanza tempo tinta, Tempo Libero c and, in 2022, the show Je est un autre. In each project, the #SINENOMINE Company is joined by from professional artists, collaborates on a permanent basis with actors and students from the Teodelapio theater school, and makes use of the professional contributions of Euno Terni for movement and choreography, the Ad Cantus Vocale Choir for the musical and singing parts, Studio Flamenco Roma and their respective artistic directors. The granting of alternative measures granted by the Magistrate of Surveillance and the management to inmate-actors has enabled some inmates to perform with the Company extramoenia throughout the country (Rome, Turin, Genoa, Chieti, Calcata, Matera, Florence, Foligno, Terni). The Company is supported by the generosity of numerous artists (among them Sara Ragni, Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio, Lucia Napoli, Pina Segoni, Lorena Salis, Serena Perna, Francesco Corrias, EUNO dancers, singers of the ad Cantus Vocale Choir) and supported by the Casa di Reclusione, Festival dei Due Mondi, the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation, from other local entities.
Artistic director of the "#SIneNOmine Company," collaborates from eleven years with the Spoleto House of Detention. He is a director, architect, set designer, lecturer in stage design and drawing, and history
of art in Spoleto's high schools. from more than 25 years, he has initiated paths of recovery and post-prison social reintegration. He is president of the Teodelapio theater association-which from over 20 years promotes cultural growth through theater, reading and acting education and runs the city's theater school-and the theater-in-prison project. It has curated a series of theatrical events and exhibitions aimed at free and restricted audiences, favored by the Magistrate of Surveillance and carried out with the management, the treatment area and the Penitentiary Police of the Spoleto Detention Home, including In-Visible, the Song of Songs, Wafer by Paola de Rosa, Monologues by Aldo Nicolaj, the anm of che mmuort, True History and Capite comm'è, Je est un autre).D