IL CALAMARO GIGANTE con Angela Finocchiaro e Bruno Stori

Angela Finocchiaro for the first time guest of the AMA Calabria seasons with the new show inspired by the eponymous novel by Tuscan writer Fabio Genovesi present in the most important Italian programming.

THE GIANT SQUID
from the eponymous novel by Fabio Genovesi
adaptation 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 Gaetano La Mela
Video Willow Production (directed by Niccolò Donatini) and Robin Studio
Music by Rocco Tanica and Diego Maggi
Marine creature design by Alessandro Baronio

Production Enfi Teatro

Synopsis
Angela's life is absurd and incomprehensible, like that of each one of us. When she was young, so many dreams and passions made her heart beat, but the rigid tracks of society and family led her to a situation that is like a bitter lump stuck in her throat, and it doesn't go neither up nor 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 tailback 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 whirlwind 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 the only thing they have in common is not knowing how they ended up there. This is how their journey begins, which wave after wave will slam them into living the adventures of women and men who instead had the courage to embrace the sea and life as a single, astonishing marvel. Unknown but essential lives, incredible but truly 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 experience their battles, they are exalted by their triumphs and despair at the tragic ruins, in a story that zooms through centuries and continents using all the languages offered by narration: 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 longer a dream that is unattainable, a battle that is insurmountable, a love that is impossible. Because the most incredible story of all is actually reality.

THEATER SEASON 2024/25
CATANZARO MUNICIPAL THEATER
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stcz2425/