The show reveals an inexhaustible imagination and poetic richness, which generates and feeds Peppe and Toni Servillo's extraordinary theatrical creativity.
Toni and Peppe Servillo reinterpret tradition with a jazz, folk and pop slant, also thanks to the valuable and charming musical support of the Solis String Quartet. They take the audience on an extraordinary voyage through Neapolitan theatrical culture: a journey made up of imagination and creativity, sung poetry and recited songs, and intenseness and laughter.
The words of classical authors, including De Filippo, Viviani and Libero Bovio, along with the contemporary voices of Moscato, Borrelli and Sovente, make up what Toni Servillo defines as "a show where theatre plays music and music becomes theatre. Where theatre sometimes fails, music sums up our existence and allows us to imagine another."
LD Francesco Adinolfi took up the task of designing the lighting, which arose in a very spontaneous way last year during the Ravello Festival, where the two Servillo brothers performed with the Solis string quartet. The show began to take shape in January and, after the Bellini, it will depart for a short tour with dates already fixed in Rome, Barcelona and Cosenza.
"My lighting design relies on Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, whenever possible," says Adinolfi. These lights combine the power of a 1500W lamp with a unique beam-shaping system, designed and patented by Clay Paky, which is capable of generating countless shapes in multiple dimensions.
(Jim Evans)
