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Ragazzi di vita

Teatro Argentina, Rome, Italy
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Important Info
Type: Novel
City: Rome, Italy
Starts at: 21:00
Duration: 1h 45min

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Overview

Awarded by the punctual sell-out of the audience during his long Italian tour and greeted by an extraordinary success of critics and audiences, teens di vita returns to move on the stage of Argentina the poignant swarm of borgata boys born from the pen of Pier Paolo Pasolini. A real kolossal of anarchist vitality to give us back the pages of a vivid and impulsive Italy, furious and painful, overwhelming in its unscrupulous modesty.

With three directing awards for Massimo Popolizio (Ubu, critique and the masks) and behind a long Italian tour greeted by an extraordinary success and the sold-out audience, back Boys of life, real kolossal of anarchist vitality that makes move on a naked stage the poignant swarm of the “borgatari” Pier Paolo Pasolini. Born in 2016, forty years after the death of the great intellectual and poetic genius, the show was the first adaptation of the novel for the stage with the drama of Emanuele Trevi, which returns with grip the lyricism and ferocity of the language pasoliniana, a roman dialect invented.
Become since its debut a case for the theatrical, powerful and communicative, stormed by an enthusiastic audience the large and heterogeneous, Boys life continues to take us inside the pages of a humanity that is vivid and painful through the special energy on stage nineteen interpreters of the young sottoproletari, in their furious, impulsive, yearning, struggle with everyday life.
To return the vitality overwhelming that the small people of guys, the protagonists of the first novel that Pasolini wrote in 1955, is directed a unique blend of Popolizio that mixture of irony and hardness, boldness and modesty, in a fresco polyphonic on which the “narrator” Linen Pillow around as a “stranger” visiting, the mediator between audience and stage, the thread of all the stories. "Stories of lives" with which Popolizio us back to the grotesque of this swarm human by the high-rises of the suburbs moves to the center: "I tried to give life to a choral performance in which the actors are projected into situations that go from witness to witness, and in which the various parts are assembled by a fury collective, is the glue to the unfolding of history. A dramaturgy that does not have a psychological basis, but realistic, to refer to a certain way of saying and being of a certain Rome".

A creation which radiates with a special scenic energy, with 19 actors charged with an absolute verity, both vivid and painful. Massimo Popolizio stages -with dramaturgy by Emanuele Trevi - the novel which Pasolini wrote in 1955, telling of the city he saw around him.

A choral and tormenting creation, Ragazzi di vita, based on the novel by Pasolini, brings to the stage a horde of voices and bodies which speak in the Rome dialect and pass their days in the suburbs, looking for a few lire and new ways to pass their time.
It is Rome as seen through Pasolini’s eyes in the booming 1950s, after having arrived in the city, suffering greatly from his being expelled from the Italian Communist Party, his being fired from his position as a teacher in a secondary school, and his separation from his beloved Fruili, where he spent his youth.
Faithful to the original work, Emanuele Trevi has written a stage play which expresses Pasolini’s prose in all of its incisiveness, and strengthens the ties between theatre, literature, and the identity of the city.
Popolizio’s directing underlines the irrepressible vitality and poetry of youth, alternating irony and hardness, innocence and the abysses. The character of Lino Guanciale, the alter ego of Pasolini himself, wanders like a “stranger” visiting that world, a mediator between the audience and the stage, a common thread which binds all of the stories told in the novel.

Venue Info

Teatro Argentina - Rome
Location   Largo di Torre Argentina, 52

The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. One of the oldest theatres in Rome, it was constructed in 1731 and inaugurated on 31 January 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro. It is built over part of the curia section of the Theatre of Pompey. This curia was the location of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

The house was commissioned by the Sforza-Cesarini family and designed by the architect Gerolamo Theodoli with the auditorium laid out in the traditional horseshoe shape. Duke Francesco Sforza-Cesarini, who ran the Argentina Theatre from 1807 to 1815, was a "theatre fanatic" who continued until his death to run up debts. Rossini's The Barber of Seville was given its premiere on 20 February 1816, just after Duke Francesco's death and, in the 19th century, the premieres of many notable operas took place in the theatre, including Verdi's I due Foscari on 3 November 1844 and La battaglia di Legnano on 27 January 1849.

From 1919 to 1944, more musical offerings than dramatic ones were presented, although the theatre premiered works by Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky during this time. As well, a series of operas was presented in the winter of 1944–45 in honor of the American and British troops.

The venue was used for classical-music recordings by the Santa Cecilia orchestra in the 1950s.

In 1994, the theatre became the home of the Teatro Stabile company of Rome, currently directed by Mario Martone. It offers a variety of programmes, some being large-scale productions, although more plays than music or opera are presented today.

The inside of the theatre is constructed of wood with six levels of boxes characterizing the design, and has been restored many times. It seats 696 people, including 344 in the stalls and with 40 boxes on five levels seating an additional 352.

Plantamura notes that the theatre's acoustics were regarded as being excellent and that the architect who designed the La Fenice opera house in Venice, Gianantonio Selva, modeled his design after the Argentina.

Important Info
Type: Novel
City: Rome, Italy
Starts at: 21:00
Duration: 1h 45min
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