VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival - Francamente me ne infischio

Francamente me ne infischio - Atlanta

Antonio Latella

21/10/2011 , 19:00
22/10/2011 , 23:00

Dramaturgy Linda Dalisi and Antonio Latella
With Caterina Carpio, Candida Nieri, Valentina Vacca
Scenes and costumes Marco Di Napoli and Graziella Pepe
Music Franco Visioli
Lights Simone De Angelis
Movements Francesco Manetti
Director Antonio Latella
Production Stabile/Mobile Compagnia Antonio Latella
in collaboration with ERT/Vie Scena Contemporanea
Special thank to Trippen A. Spieth and M. Oehler, Berlin

Running time 1h 30'

World Première

At VIE for the World Première Latella presents Twins and Atlanta, two of the five movements that are composing its new work, which is still in progress. They are freely adapted from “Gone with the wind”, book written by Margaret Mitchell in 1936, made unforgettable by the film directed by Victor Fleming in 1939. On stage there will be the actress who worked together with Latella in Naples’ Teatro Nuovo. Scarlett O’Hara is a whimsical and unscrupulous young woman who lives her hard life with a fighting spirit. She is unable, like her people, to admit the defeat even when she faces it. Scarlett goes towards her future, thinking that “after all tomorrow is another day”.
Everything revolve around her, everybody is speaking about her, everybody describes her in a wonderful way and then they destroy her.
Through Scarlett a foolish love story and the epic of a Nation are told.

Scarlett is ugly but beautiful.
Scarlett is a child.
Scarlett is a lie.
Scarlett is obstinate.
Scarlett is the grimace, she is the smile.
Scarlett fears becoming a spinster.
Scarlett is the woman who does not want to get marry to be free.
Scarlett is the wife that no man would like to get, but that everybody marries.
Scarlett is the inability of being a mother.
Scarlett is mother of every child who is not hers.
Scarlett is America.

Scarlett looks at herself in the mirror and she finds Atlanta inside: twin city that, like herself, destroys the cover of time in where she born and projects herself in a new time. Both work out mourning ignoring truths of feeling and trusting just in money, progress and growth. It takes place a mirror image of identification between Scarlett and Atlanta, until a thinking about loss, about the rift between truth and wish and about how a richness and success dream can bring people to loneliness. Here, Scarlett’s eyes turn black, like a light colour dress dip into an ink basin and bound to a mourning. “It is not enough being himself, in America” – Scarlett says – it is not enough a feast with music and decorations, the important thing is to master, to be the queen of the floor, getting everything and everybody and giving the illusion to every suitor that falls that is fine like this, that is fair and it is honourable.
In this way, essentiality of what is superior, whispers to our ears and it seduces ourselves, like Scarlett does, looking scathingly at us under her fashion bonnet.

Linda Dalisi

http://www.antoniolatella.com

Antonio Latella

He was born in Castellammare di Stabia in 1967. After his studies at the Theatre School of the Teatro Stabile in Torino directed by Franco Passatore, and at the La Bottega Teatrale in Florence directed by Vittorio Gassman, he began his professional life as actor (1986-2000).
In 1998, he directed his first theatrical performance. In 2004 he moved to Berlin. In 2010 he’s been director of the Neapolitan Theatre Teatro Nuovo di Napoli.
Antonio Latella has been invited to stage his plays in many different theatres and Festivals such as: the 11th Union des Théâtres de l’Europe Festival at Villeurbanne, the Avignon Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Theaterformen Festival of Braunschweig/Hanover, the Grec Festival of Barcelona, the Shakespeare Festival of Santa Susanna, the International “Scène Etrangères” Festival of Villeneuve d’Ascq, the Svjetskog Kazalista Festival of Zagreb, at the Théâtre National Populaire Villeurbanne, the Volksbuhne Theatre of Berlin, the Théâtre National de l’Odeon of Paris, the International Theatre Festival of Lugano, the Radialsystem Theatre of Berlin, the Culturgest and Centro Cultural De Belem of Lisbon, La Comédie of Reims, the Teatrul Clasis Festival of Arad, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Rumania, Wiener Festwochen, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and De Internationale Keuze Van de Rotterdamse Schouwbur..

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