Novecento a pezzi...

directed by Angelo Guidi

Novecento a pezzi emerges from a fusion of the 20th century’s most significant and revolutionary plays, deliberately juxtaposing the tragic with the comic and the absurd with the real to demonstrate their perfect complementarity. A humorous and occasionally irreverent journey through modern dramaturgy, beginning with Beckett's En attendant Godot, which retraces the key stages of a theatrical exploration that violently severed its ties to tradition. The actors perform scenes from Ibsen, Albee, Ionesco, Marinetti, Brecht, Weiss, and Campanile that reflect the great changes and deep wounds of our century. It’s a whirlwind of hilarious situations, a sign of a “desperate vitality” as Pasolini put it, all interlocking and finding their common thread in the ever-unfulfilled wait of Wladimiro and Estragon—an expectation that, perhaps, remains unanswered to this day...

May 31, 2003, at 9:00 PM and June 1, 2003, at 4:00 PM
Teatro Sette, Rome

Students | Leading actors

• Andrea Apostolo
• Diana Attianese
• Orsola Briglia
• Nicola Colaiacovo
• Marco Cozzolino Coletta
• Silvia Cristalli
• Edoardo Faraci
• Giampaolo Filauro
• Valeria Fraioli
• Andrea Gagliano
• Umberta Gentile
• Alessia Macchiarulo
• Antonella Mancasi
• Simone Oddo
• Angelica Orsini
• Giuseppe Pagano
• Ambra Picconato
• Luciana Saponara
• Marco Savastano
• Carmine Sica
• Camilla Stefanizzi
• Myriam Tedesco
• Alessandro Tribulato
• Rosamaria Vindigni
• Yang Dixi

But don't tell Pirandello!

Directed by Ferdinando Ceriani

“Don't Tell Pirandello” is the result of an in-depth dramaturgical study that the students wanted to conduct on Pirandello. They wrote a collaborative text, which Professor Angelo Guidi then refined into a more cohesive stylistic structure. It all started with a brilliant idea: what if the six characters, instead of immediately arriving at the theater where the stage manager is preparing the Giuoco delle parti, as happens in Pirandello’s text, had rebelled against the author and sought their own identities outside the stage? The company would have continued rehearsals, while the six characters would have begun wandering the city in search of their true identities. And that’s what happens in Ma non ditelo a Pirandello, where we find all the famous “Pirandellisms” revisited, but always with a touch of irony. This creates a whirlwind of grotesque, absurd, and comical situations that culminate in the six characters reuniting with the company of the Giuoco delle parti… which then marks the beginning of I sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. It’s a bold piece that has allowed us to critically re-examine the work of the great Sicilian playwright, while taking a few small liberties (but don’t tell Pirandello!)

May 31, 2003, 9:00 PM
Teatro Sette, Rome

June 5, 2003, 8:30 PM
LUISS Guido Carli, Great Hall

Students | Leading actors

• Valentina Baglieri
• Pietro Dattola
• Flavia De Lipsis
• Francesca Di Maio
• Carmelo Dragotta
• Giuseppe Guglielmino
• Mariella La Rocca
• Alessandro Marrone
• Alessandro Mascia
• Adriano Missori
• Sergio Montanino
• Alessia Papasso
• Alessandra Peduto
• Pamela Sammarco
• Laura Toro
• Valentina Tortorella
• Tortorici, Dèsirée