"A Little Game Without Consequences" is an incredibly comic play, a perfect machine that features five characters not yet 30 years old who, because of a little lie told as a joke, find themselves involved in a to domino mechanism that will radically change their lives.
The title is precisely ironic, since the game to referred to is the one that the protagonist, Chiara, triggers from the very first lines, a game that, articulated in a succession of twists and turns, will, in fact, have catastrophic consequences.
The story is very simple: during the party celebrating the sale of the country house of the protagonist's (Bruno's) family, his fiancée (Chiara), in order to silence to Bruno's cousin (Patrizio), from always an ardent supporter of the couple and an over-the-top nuisance, confesses to him that, after a good 12 years, her affair with Bruno has just ended.
The news rebounds on the lips of all the guests, and Bruno, taken by surprise, finds himself, despite himself, to having to hold up the game initiated from Chiara. Both of them, however, are unaware of how much this little lie will manage to to trigger since, already from time, there are those who are waiting for the end of their seemingly perfect engagement to take advantage of the situation.
And here to enter also be part of the game two other characters: Chiara's best friend (Alessia), and a childhood friend of Bruno's (Sergio).
Soon it will become clear that Alessia is hiding an unspeakable secret and that Sergio is none other than a skilled seducer.

A typically French comedy, entrusted to the skill of the 5 performers, a text that deals with a theme that is certainly topical and that involves everyone, as it reflects the relational dynamics of couples, investigates the authenticity of relationships and questions the value of friendship, especially when it inexorably gives way to desire

The show, staged in the Cloisters of St. Nicholas, will be a party with flair and the audience will be part of the game, delighted by the original music composed and performed live from Giua>.
The show is open to a maximum of 60 spectators.
Before and during the performance, two waitresses will offer wine to spectators.

A guaranteed hour and a half of fun in a lovely setting.

Ubo show from not to be missed that will get you drunk, in every sense of the word!

Eleonora d'Urso

Meeting with The Kitchen Company Thursday, June 25, at 7:00 p.m.

Literary Cafe, Mauri Palace

I've been producing plays for 20 years now, I started in May 1989.
from then I've given birth to about 60 plays.
By the end of this season, the viewers who will have seen my plays will be about 3,000,000. Not a few. They were entertained, they were moved, they were scandalized, they met new authors, and they avoided for a few evenings watching some of the worst television in the world.
Some shows turned out particularly well, others less so, but I think that is normal.
I was lucky enough to meet and work with very talented artists:
Ricky Tognazzi, Lino Capolicchio, Simona Izzo, Carlo Delle Piane, Anna Bonaiuto, Ombretta Colli, Massimo Venturiello, Simona Marchini, Claudio Bisio, Bebo Storti, Gastone Moschin, Marzia Ubaldi, Sergio Castellitto, Margaret Mazzantini, Lauretta Masiero, Luigi Pistilli, Luca Barbareschi, Marcello Bartoli,Andrea Brambilla, Nino Formicola, Nancy Brilli, Giobbe Covatta, Paolo Graziosi, Enrico Montesano, Alessandro Gassman, Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Villaggio, Claudia Gerini, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefania Sandrelli, Luciano Virgilio, Claudia Cardinale, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania, Peter Stein (only for a reading of Faust), Stefano Accorsi and Lucilla Morlacchi.

I decided to change course, a few months ago I met about 150 young actors and actresses all graduates of the main Italian Schools, I selected about 30 of them, with them I started to a new Company the THE KITCHEN COMPANY. The nucleus of this company is formed from 15 actors and 15 actresses (almost all graduates of the Silvio d'Amico Academy and with an average age of 24).
I will strive for the actors of TKC to play at least two/three characters per year and to be directed from very different directors, so that these will help them to grow.
I divided the work from face in 3 phases.

The FIRST PHASE consists of the shows designed for the 2009-2010 theater season, namely THE KITCHEN by Arnold Wesker, NEMICO DI CLASSE by Nigel Williams, UN PICCOLO GIOCO SENZA CONSEGUENZE by Gerald Sibleyras and Jean Dell and MEA CULPA by Eleonora d'Urso.
In the SECOND STAGE, which should coincide with the 2010/2011 season, I would like Sergio Castellitto, Sergio Rubini, Ricky Tognazzi, Luca Barbareschi and Carlo Verdone to sign a direction for TKC. In the THIRD PHASE I would like to seeTKC actors directed from Edward Hall, from Debora Warner, from Luc Bondy, from Janusz Kica, and from many others.

None of this can ever be accomplished without the concrete help of theater directors, theater circuits, festivals and, in many cases, even cultural aldermen, and, of course, journalists; of course, it will be an arduous and complex path, yet I have a feeling that trying to to bring such a Company to life right now, at a time when Italy is gripped from by a deep crisis not only economic but also and, above all, cultural, well, I think trying is right and for me indispensable. I have great confidence in the will to react, to shake up a theater that seems to be in hibernation but in very serious danger of never waking up again.
Massimo Chiesa

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