After the success of last year, thanks to the sponsorship of the Municipality of Cefalù, returns to the Municipal Theatre “Salvatore Cicero” the contemporary theater exhibition “Cosa porta il vento – What brings the wind”, curated by the association Circus of the future, with artistic direction by Tiziana Giordano.
The exhibition, of national scope, will be staged from February to April 2025 and carries the subtitle “Portraits of humanity”, a red thread that unites the five proposed shows.
“The authors, directors, characters and stories we will meet will show us different facets of humanity, among the most delicate and fragile, poetic and visionary, painful and incredible. Totò, Vicè, Pascalina, Stracci, Lena, Vita, the man with the coat, the man with the hat, the man with the pyjama, Danilo: a gallery of portraits that look inside us, invite us not to lower our gaze and listen to keep up or find our sense of humanity, increasingly narcotized by a present that normalizes violence, indifference, war”, with these words Tiziana Giordano introduces the review. And he adds: “What brings the wind” brings a theater that aims to feed reflection and social-cultural growth collective, and tries to be a garrison of humanity, in times increasingly dark”.
It will start on Sunday, February 23 with “Toto and Vicè. Operetta musicata per ombre e voci” from the text of Franco Scaldati, adaptation and direction by Giuseppe Cutino, with Rosario Palazzolo, Anton Giulio Pandolfo, Egle Mazzamuto, Sabrina Petyx, music by Maurizio Curcio performed live with Daniele Tesauro, production Energie Alter-native. The show received in 2024 the ANCT prize (National Association of Theatre Critics) for the best direction, among the words of the recognition it reads: “With his direction, Cutino takes us into a figural space free of the constraints of coherence and logic, transforming the text of Scaldati in a visual and sound score that evokes an elsewhere metaphysical, in which life and death, visible and invisible, They merge and transcend the boundaries of reality, a work of rare balance and intense depth.”
The show “Dissonorata will follow on Sunday, March 9. Un delitto d’onore in Calabria” text, direction and interpretation by Saverio La Ruina, original music performed live by Gianfranco De Franco, production Scena Verticale. A show that has marked the history of contemporary theatre, which in 2007 received the Ubu awards for best Italian text and actor and in 2010 the Hystrio Award for dramaturgy on Saverio La Ruina wrote: “teaches not to be pitiful in the face of the superficiality of contemporary grammars, under and above the stage. To dig into the hidden wealth of the street, dialects and literatures. With a formal elegance capable of bending to the invettiva as the bar chatter, the game of irony as the delicacy of certain passions full of humility. And suddenly, even the most difficult events speak the language of poetry.”
Sunday 6 and Monday 7 April will continue with “What happened suddenly” text, direction and interpretation of Rosario Palazzolo, on stage with Francesco Gulizzi and Anton Giulio Pandolfo, assistant director Angelo Grasso, production Circus of the future. The first prose work by the playwright, writer and director from Palermo that uses a surrealism played with the times of comedy comedy that often twists in yellow, lies on the grotesque, to arrive at a dramatic ending.
To close the show on Sunday 27 and Monday 28 April will be the show “La ricetta di Danilo” text and interpretation by Totò Galati, directed by Claudio Zappalà, original music performed live by Nathan Tagliavini, production Barbe à Papa Teatro and Associazione Città Teatro. The show tells of the experience of social work, educational and community of Danilo Dolci who through nonviolent struggles, fasts and marches for peace marked some of the most significant changes in western Sicily from the fifties onwards. The show is among the initiatives promoted within the Centenary of the birth of Danilo Dolci, curated by the Center for Creative Development Danilo Dolci.
A program of five events staged on Sunday afternoon at 18.00 for the city community and two replicas on Monday morning at 11.00 dedicated to secondary schools, with the possibility of welcoming the public free of charge until seats are exhausted.
“The Administration – says the mayor Daniele Tumminello – continues to invest on the cultural front, aware that the arts, as the theater, serve not only to help understand and reflect on the present, but they offer an additional attraction of quality for those who choose Cefalù as a tourist destination for its beauty and the enrichment that can be gained thanks to the initiatives we plan throughout the year”.