November 29, 2008. Italian actor Lanfranco Licauli, who plays Arlecchino in productions of il Piccolo Teatro di Milano, gave Parisians a foretaste of the Goldoni play, directed by Toni Servillo, coming to the city subsequent January. This occasion at La Libreria in rue du Faubourg Poissonnière was component of the weeklong activities showcasing the function of Toni Servillo each in cinema and theater. The presentation, punctuated by bursts of theatrics by the awe inspiring Licauli, was created along two lines: the connection with Paris for Goldoni as nicely as for il Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
Goldoni spent the final thirty years of his life in Paris, till his death in 1793. Lanfranco Licauli study a passage from Goldoni's Memoirs, written in Paris throughout the revolutionary years in the mid 1780s. The Venetian playwright was a fervent student of the functions of Molière, who wrote one century earlier and in these paragraphs, study with such vivid melody by Licauli, Goldoni wrote of his reaction to seeing Le Misanthrope completed upon his arrival in the French capital. He had usually admired this piece in written form, yet now seeing it enacted for the initial time, he was overwhelmed by the brilliance of the Parisian acting tradition. He noted how the movements, glances, even the silent moments had been studied down to a fine art, however appeared so all-natural and effortless. It produced the characters come to life and produced the humor of the piece that a lot much more intense. Upon leaving the theater, Goldoni wondered which he preferred a lot more, getting his own plays completed in France by such achieved actors or getting it carried out in Italian with Italian actors that could function with such grace.
Il Piccolo Teatro has accomplished each, and there is the connection. This theater firm, founded in 1947 by Giorgio Strehler, has turn into Milan's premier theatrical institution. The Piccolo Teatro has place on productions of Brecht, Pirandello, Chekov, and Gorky adapting them all to the modern theatrical types. In 1983, Strehler was invited by Jack Lang, the French Minister of Culture, to direct the Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris, a position he served in, along with his duties at Il Piccolo, till his death in 1997.
Strehler developed his production of Arlecchino, Servitore di due Padroni for the very first season of Il Piccolo Teatro, and this interpretation of the Goldoni play had an quick accomplishment, contributing to a new appreciation of Goldoni then building. Not surprisingly, provided Strehler's international formation and interests, il Piccolo Teatro di Milano has sought to bring its productions to the widest international audiences attainable, and it has brought its Arlecchino to Paris quite a few instances considering that then. Yet, this time il Piccolo is returning with anything diverse. Strehler initially mounted a production of one more of Goldoni's functions, Trilogia della Villeggiatura in 1954, and it is this piece that is coming in January. The original trilogy consisted of 3 plays, the initially one focusing on the preparations for a trip to the seaside by the pretentious city folk, the second about their misadventures there, and the third on the effect that their travels have on their lives afterwards. Strehler developed a condensed version which place all 3 plays collectively in one tour de force. Toni Servillo, who has long knowledge in theater with Teatri Uniti Napoli, has taken the Strehler version and reworked it in his own way, reintroducing specific scenes and cutting other individuals to showcase Goldoni's function in a fresh way. This new production has had a sold-out run in Milan and in 20 other Italian cities, and is presently touring Berlin, Bucharest, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
It is presumable that Goldoni would totally approve of this fresh strategy to his operate. After all, Goldoni's value in theater was as a modernizer; he wanted to modernize the Commedia dell'Arte tradition of comedic improvisation. He wanted his players to drop the masks and the cliché routines and speak naturally, even as they presented the meticulously crafted lines that Goldoni had written for them. He strove for a additional "noble" comedy that would touch people today with immediacy and speak with sincerity, yet at the similar time entertain them immensely. In his plays there is a mix of mask and plain face that reflects the net of entanglement involving the marvelous artifice of theater and the realities of life. Goldoni plays with this mixture to create scenes exactly where ordinary people today confront and subvert the masked absurdities and predictable melodramas of the ridiculously extraordinary. The multi-layered richness of his social commentary has permitted him to reappear with regularity on the theatrical playbill for extra than 200 years, in spite of the faithless vagaries of taste.
La Trilogia della Villeggiatura will be presented at La MC93 Bobigny, from 14-18 January, 2009. It is directed by Toni Servillo, and will be done in Italian supertitled in French, by the repertory firm of Il Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
Dominic Ambrose is a writer and script developer living in Paris. Take a appear at his blogs at http://dominicambrose.wordpress.com and http://ambroseartgallery.wordpress.com
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