Gioele Dix star for Dino Buzzati
The famous actor and director will be on tour in Sassari and Cagliari until Sunday
Journey through the stories invented by the great writer, journalist and painter from Belluno in "The race behind the wind / Dino Buzzati or the enchantment of the world" with dramaturgy and direction by Gioele Dix, protagonist on stage with Valentina Cardinali for a production of the Theater Center Bresciano in collaboration with Giovit and Retropalco.
The play, on the bill from tonight, Tuesday 16 January, at 9pm at the Teatro Comunale of Sassari and from tomorrow until 21 January at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, at 8.30pm from Wednesday to Friday, Saturday at 7.30pm and Sunday at 7pm, arrives in Island for the Season of La Grande Prosa of CeDAC - Multidisciplinary Circuit of Live Entertainment in Sardinia chaired by Antonio Cabiddu and directed by Valeria Ciabattoni.
An original work inspired by the extraordinary and imaginative stories of the author of "The Desert of the Tartars" and "A Love", in which the characters materialize on the scene, with their dramas, secret anxieties, dreams and desires within of an evocative atelier , among costumes, accessories and objects that define the profession and social class, but also the character and personality, to the point of composing a vivid fresco of various humanity.
Refined and eclectic interpreter, with a long theatrical career under his belt starting from the 70s with the Teatro degli Eguali cooperative, then alongside artists of the caliber of Franco Parenti and Sergio Fantoni, directed by directors such as Gabriele Salvatores, Antonio Salines and Andrée Ruth Shammah, Gioele Dix, stage name of David Ottolenghi, gifted with a strong comic vision as well as a taste for irony and talent as a storyteller, as confirmed by his successes in cabaret, from the Derby Club and the Zelig in Milan to television spotlight with programs such as Cocco, Mai Dire Gol and Zelig, between forays into auteur cinema and brilliant comedies on the big screen, in addition to documentaries and TV series, he engages with literature.
Drawing material and ideas from "Sessanta Racconti", "Il colombre" and "In that precise moment", the Milanese actor, playwright, director and cabaret artist composes his own personal anthology in which the ideas contained in "A bullet of paper" leave give way to the sense of vertigo in "The Girl Who Falls" and the complicated writing of "A Love Letter", among the Faustian echoes of "A Bewitched Jacket" and the rise in society of a young woman in "Non è never finished”, up to a hypothetical but also emblematic farewell in the last lines drawn in pencil.
“The race behind the wind” interweaves personal and family memories with Buzzati's narrative, entrusting the show to a staging of extraordinary artistic value with sets by Angelo Lodi, costumes by Marina Malavasi and Gentucca Bini, lighting design by Carlo Signorini, music by Savino Cesario, arrangements by Savino Cesario and Silvano Belfiore, audio by Beppe Pelliciari – Mordente and assistant director Beatrice Cazzaro.
The brilliant creativity of Gioele Dix traces an itinerary among the intriguing and often surprising stories, in which some of the fundamental themes emerge for the author of splendid and famous novels such as "The Desert of the Tartars" and "Un amore".
In his works and in particular in his stories, Dino Buzzati explores the labyrinths of the mind and heart, highlighting the disturbances and anxieties, the most intimate thoughts and the most secret desires, giving shape to vague fears and superstitions, showing the limits of reason in the face of passions, but also the doubts and uncertainties that hinder action and the most generous and daring impulses, with all the multiple contradictions, manias and cravings, idiosyncrasies and obsessions, to dwell on the quiet dismay faced with the expected and feared prospect of the inevitable end.
During the tour Gioele Dix and Valentina Cardinali will be at the center of the off-stage meetings "Oltre la Scena" : Thursday 18 January at 5.30 pm in the Foyer of the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, in a dialogue with the public coordinated by Irene Palladini, researcher at the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari and professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, the two protagonists will propose a reflection on the intertwining and mutual influences between literature and theatre, on the craft of writing as on the work of the actor and on the relationship between art and society.
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