Teatro Massimo, Laura Marinoni and Elisabetta Pozzi inaugurate the season of great prose
The Cedac program kicks off with the two extraordinary protagonists in Maria Stuarda, directed by Davide Livermore and with music by Giua
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A reflection on women and power to inaugurate the new Season of La Grande Prosa organized by CeDAC , the Multidisciplinary Circuit of Live Entertainment in Sardinia at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari chaired by Antonio Cabiddu and directed by Valeria Ciabattoni.
From tonight, Wednesday 29th, at 8.30pm until Sunday 3rd December at 4.30pm, with repeat performances tomorrow and Friday 1st December at 8.30pm and Saturday 2nd December at 7.30pm, "Maria Stuarda", the famous tragedy by Friedrich Schiller in the interpretation of Laura, will be staged Marinoni and Elisabetta Pozzi , who alternate in the roles of the two queens, alongside Gaia Aprea, Linda Gennari, Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Olivia Manescalchi, Sax Nicosia and the singer-songwriter Giua, guitar and voice, who signs the music of the show together with the composer Mario Conte.
The direction is by Davide Livermore, involved in opera and theater with world-class productions in Italy and abroad, who offers an intriguing contemporary reinterpretation of the drama inspired by the ferocious antagonism between Elizabeth of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, icy and powerful "virgin queen", and Mary, sovereign of Scotland, daughter of James V and the French duchess Mary of Guise, a passionate and cultured woman, raised at the court of France, but with a tormented and stormy existence, between husbands and lovers, held prisoner for almost twenty years by the will of her cousin and rival, and finally sentenced to death on charges of treason for having conspired against the life of her adversary.
A historical story, narrated in the form of a theatrical work, where Friedrich Schiller imagines the meeting that never happened between the two queens , a direct confrontation, almost an epic duel between two women very different in temperament and education, "sisters" in affection and esteem, in addition to the close blood ties, but enemies in the ferocious struggle for the throne of England: instead of receiving asylum and hospitality, Mary, forced into exile following the riots and revolt of the Scottish nobles, crossed the border and was arrested in Carlisle in Cumbria and locked in a castle, she suffers the bitter condition of seclusion as a painful affront.
In the spotlight in the main roles Laura Marinoni, fresh winner of the ETI Award “Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano 2023”, and Elisabetta Pozzi, star of the stage with four Ubu Awards as best actress to her credit in addition to the David di Donatello for “Maledetto il day I met you" and at the Flaiano Lifetime Achievement Awards and for Dacia Maraini's "Maria Stuarda": the two extraordinary interpreters "exchange" roles, discovering, evening after evening, together with the public, following the fall of a feather, who will wear the very refined clothes, created by Dolce & Gabbana, of the inflexible Elizabeth and the sensual and "scandalous" Maria, engaged in a challenge between two wills, one perched in its position of dominance and strength, the other against her will, forced to suffer the indignity of prison and a probably illegitimate trial, deprived of her freedom.
The appointment with “Oltre la Scena – meetings with the artists” is not to be missed : Thursday 30 November at 5.30 pm in the Foyer of the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, Laura Marinoni and Elisabetta Pozzi, together with the company, in a conversation with Irene Palladini, literature researcher Modern and Contemporary Italian at the University of Cagliari, will address the central themes of the piece, in particular the struggle for power and the rivalry between the two queens for the accession to the throne of England.
A reflection on the role and condition of women in society and on the possibility of reaching and maintaining a position of supremacy, on the prejudices and limits imposed on women and their relationships with the male universe in a patriarchal society, but also on the contrasts of religion and on dynastic clashes in Great Britain and Europe.
Focus also on the languages of the scene and on the style of representation of a classic drama, reread and reinterpreted with contemporary sensitivity.
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