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The historic pair of Drive in theater door Rumors (Rumors) Neil Simon's
Igor Vazzaz
We are not fundamentalists, not at all, firmly convinced that any kind of theater, and work in general, can be achieved with reliability, efficiency, dignity and honesty: we machine Always a good pace to follow a wide variety of performances, avoiding any snobbery. Therefore, subject to the last two grades mentioned, purely moral, and not within our competence, this time to speak ill of a fresh preparation debut, featuring two "myths" of those eighties that we have, for better or worse, brought up and trained.
This Rumors of Neil Simon with Nino Formicola and Andrea Brambilla : Needless to say, for non-theater lovers, these two names are unknown than Gaspar and Zuzzurro , formidable comic duo made popular by Drive In, TV must "years to drink and still indispensable reference for any comedy cathode.
In an extension of upper-class white bright, uniformly illuminated, the funny story comes to life in a suicide attempt by the deputy mayor of New York, just abandoned by his wife. Coincidentally involved, two guests (Formicola / Gaspar and Alessandra Schiavon i) came in slightly ahead of the cocktail party given in honor of the ten-year marriage of relatives, whose strength is unknown to the guests. Formicola, however, is the lawyer, as well as close friend, the Administrator and, motivated by political calculation and initial reflexes, seeking to better manage the situation with an unlikely attempt to cover-up compared to the arriving guests, including the couple Brambilla / Zuzzurro and Eleonora d'Urso .
has therefore begun a sweeping series of misunderstandings, misrepresentations, accidents, lies and misunderstandings, which the audience watches from omniscient position: the characters are typical representatives of a middle class American fatua, talkative, slave of vices, knot between concealment and talk, slowly discovering the severity of paradoxical situation.
The space is clean, no secrets, with four main poles: the entry above the staircase in sight, top right, which leads to the room of the landlord, the telephone, added real character of the play, the opaque glass door on the left, which is glimpsed from the arrival of cars and characters, including the hapless cop who comes to investigate in the second half, and finally, the ubiquitous bar counter home, as expected in the inevitable element of social representations Simon .
Rumors is a false friend : noise does not mean but gossip, rumors , ie the backbone of the entire piece , constitutive power of a society that strap in an attempt to split shape, with their talk, the world around them.
The weak point is the ruse of the text and in the absence of secrets, surprises are not the joints of the comic plot, as unpredictable as to be comprehensively covered. Everything is light and in that sense, the scenery is true to the stand, not just the costumes are bright and Staglin effectively mono on the scene, as well as not enough laughter often torn by a public willing, happy to see two familiar faces of television of the past, and far too lenient with respect to a discounted comedy, not saved by good performance by Andrea Brambilla . The former commissioner is in fact the most in the form of a company from acting conventional charge in the gestures, the voice volume, sometimes irritating, but, above all, no flashes or ideas worthy of note.
Yet, in these situations, the actor who should, and could take over the show in front of a director (Massimo Chiesa) quite impalpable.
crisis and poverty of ideas solutions can not exploit the other hand, staging a text that, left to itself, represents the latest chapter of a comedie humaine now well known, and none wants to Simon, author, beyond everything, including The most important of our time. The public appreciates, but the theater does not mean that the customer is always right.
(February 3, 2010 )
Viewed in Campi Bisenzio, Dante Theatre, January 16, 2010
Entertainment
Rumors, by Neil Simon, Andrea Brambilla, and Nino Formicola
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Rumors, by Neil Simon, BY ANDREA BRAMBILLA E Nino Formicola
The other actors: Mark Zanutto, Elisabetta Becattini, Simone France, Elisa Gabrielli, Paolo Giangrasso
Upcoming: Genoa Politeama, 2-7/2, Lugano (Switzerland), 9-10/2, Varese, 16-18/2; Garbagnate Milanese, 16 / 3 ; Cassano Magnano (I), 17 / 3; Concorezzo (I), 18 / 3, Cesano Maderno (Mi), 27 / 3, Milan, Manzoni, 30/3-2/5
Arts / Entertainment: binomial not always antithetical, but important: the first should "change" is one who does both those who enjoy, the other has just a pleasant distraction, it would be important not to pass by the spectacle of entertainment in the digestive
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