With Leonardo Lidi and Carlo Cecchi, the Theatre of the Festival dei Due Mondi

Spoleto, June 23, 2023 - Double opening also for the theater section of the sixty-sixth Festival dei Due Mondi. After Il Gabbiano of the last edition, the debut of the second stage of Leonardo Lidi's project on Anton Čechov is expected tomorrow Saturday, June 24 at at 21 at Teatro Caio Melisso Spazio Carla Fendi with Zio Vanja, also staged on Sunday, June 25 and Monday, June 26 (at 6 p.m. and at 9 p.m.). "Three houses, or maybe the same one, three families, or maybe the same one, and love supplanting work: this strange family sung from Čechov has Gaber's face." - says the director - "His irreverent mask. Or better yet, Freak Antoni's. Let it be out of tune and ungrammatical. Defeated by its own ghosts. If in The Seagull we wasted paper and time in reasoning about the most correct form with which to pass emotions to the audience, divided between realism and symbolism, between poetry and prose, between directors, writers and actresses, and all we needed was a bench to torment ourselves about the pains of the heart - "How much love, enchanting lake!" - in Zio Vanja art is relegated to a museum concept, stuff from aristocratic pamphlets, a sterile intellectualism that no longer thinks of its people, that bores passion and allows the incapable to live on theater." With this trilogy, Lidi returns to the deepest sense of theater, capturing simplicity in its narrative power.

The second debut - tomorrow night at at 7 p.m. at Teatrino delle 6 "Luca Ronconi" - is that of Sarto per signora, with the students of the Compagnia dell'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica "Silvio d'Amico" and directed by Carlo Cecchi. The show is on until to Wednesday, June 28 (at 21, at 19, at 16, at 16). Massimo Marino writes in the theatre notes, "Cecchi is a notorious subversive of the boring, predictable, let's call it director's theater, which attributes insurmountable boundaries to actors, which reduces the infinite variables of the scenic relationship to preordained plans. In his career he has traversed tragedy, Beckett's Woyzeck and Finale di partita, Petito's farce and Eduardo's farce (his disenchanted, desolate Sik-Sik, the magic maker, still lingers in the eyes). He has embodied the corrosive comedy of Molière and the derailments from everyday life of Harold Pinter and Thomas Bernhard; he has traveled in the multiplicities of Shakespeare, repopulating with Hamlet, Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night's Dream a fascinating and destroyed theater space like the Garibaldi Theater in Palermo's Kalsa. He brought to the stage his great friend Elsa Morante, more Shakespeare and Pirandello, a disenchanted Henry IV and more with Marche Teatro." Cecchi is the first of the great directors involved in this year's review of the "Silvio d'Amico" National Academy of Dramatic Art, which includes shows directed from Antonio Latella, Massimiliano Civica, Massimiliano Farau.