IL CALAMARO GIGANTE con Angela Finocchiaro e Bruno Stori

Angela Finocchiaro is a guest for the first time in the AMA Calabria seasons with the new show inspired by the novel of the same name by Tuscan writer Fabio Genovesi, featured in the most important Italian programming.

THE GIANT SQUID
from the novel of the same name by Fabio Genovesi
adapted by Fabio Genovesi, Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori

with Angela Finocchiaro and Bruno Stori
and with Gennaro Apicella, Silvia Biancalana, Marco Buldrassi, Simone Cammarata, Sofia Galvan, Stefania Menestrina, Caterina Montanari, Francesca Santamaria Amato

Direction Carlo Sciaccaluga
Sets and costumes Anna Varaldo
Lighting design Gaeatano La Mela
Video by Willow Production (directed by Niccolò Donatini) and Robin Studio
Music by Rocco Tanica and Diego Maggi
Sea creature concept Alessandro Baronio

Production by Enfi Teatro

Synopsis
Angela's life is absurd and incomprehensible, like that of each of us. As a young girl, many dreams and passions made her heart beat, but the rigid tracks of society and family have led her to a situation that is like a bitter mouthful stuck in her throat, and it doesn't go up or down. Today more than ever: she was returning to Milan for the office dinner, but the return of holidaymakers from the sea blocks her in a queue towards Roncobilaccio. Angela curses all those people, she also curses the sea they are returning from. And she still has her mouth open, when an impossible wave takes her away, overwhelming and overturning her life. In a whirlpool outside of the world and space, where she finds herself spinning together with a strange and old-fashioned guy, Montfort, who comes from another nation and another century, and they only have in common not knowing how they ended up there. And so their journey begins, wave after wave will push them to experience the adventures of women and men who instead had the courage to embrace the sea and life as a single, astonishing wonder. Unknown but fundamental lives, incredible but very real, linked by having believed with all their hearts in the existence of an animal so huge and far from normality that for millennia it has been considered a legend: The Giant Squid. In their shoes, Angela and Montfort live their battles, exult in their triumphs and despair at the tragic ruins, in a story that jumps between centuries and continents using all the languages offered by storytelling: images, sets, music, dance... in a passionate embrace that reaches the hearts of all ages, from the young to those who are young at heart. And if the giant squid exists in the world, then there is no dream that is unrealizable, no battle that is insurmountable, no love that is impossible. Because the most incredible story of all is reality itself.

THEATRE SEASON 2024/25
GRANDINETTI COMUNALE THEATRE OF LAMEZIA TERME
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stlt2425/