OTELLO di William Shakespeare

A great text with the demoniac protagonist Iago, who, in front of the audience, reveals a theatrical mechanism that is both comical and grotesque, fierce and evil.

OTHELLO
by William Shakespeare
translation and adaptation by Francesco Niccolini

with Giuseppe Cederna in the role of Iago
and with Giuliana Colzi (Doge, Emilia), Andrea Costagli (Cassio), Dimitri Frosali (Othello), Lucia Socci (Desdemona), Lorenzo Carmagnini (Roderigo), Riccardo Naldini (Brabantio, Lodovico), Elisa Proietti (Bianca, Montano)

Directed by Emanuele Gamba
Costumes by Susanna Fabbrini
Lights by Samuele Batistoni
Assistant director Alessandra Panzone
Technical direction Lorenzo Galletti

Production Arca Azzurra, MiC, Regione Toscana, Comune S. Casciano V.P. in collaboration with Festival Teatrale di Borgio Verezzi

Synopsis
In the tragedy of Othello, Iago, an extraordinary demiurge of the stage, does not settle for a simple act to be inserted between two dialogues as Hamlet does to uncover the murder of his father, but pushes the creative challenge beyond mimesis and performs a miracle, making real what is not real. A humanistic giant, Iago knows man better than anyone, he is a director capable of profound maieutics and handles the magical tools of the Theater with the skill of another Prospero. In this case, the Theater is a puppet theater – perhaps our truest version? – but unfortunately or fortunately the strings are cut, no longer running upwards towards the silent and empty sky like Euripides', perhaps abandoned forever.
In the absence of some creative – and reparative – divinity, we manage on our own with a guardian gatekeeper, chained to a theater, a little theater, a big theater that welcomes a new company and a new story with every knock, a story to be acted, illuminated, and sung. Surrounded by backdrops of fake Venices, curtains of fake palaces, trapdoors of fake snowfalls, Iago – for the love of Desdemona or for the love of Theater who knows? – sets up a labyrinth, that of the Moor's mind where fake words ignite real passions, leading straight to deathly conclusions; and once again, words, verbs, logos win, tearing the sky apart like thunder, lightning, and lightning bolts that chase each other around the stage in the swirling wind…

THEATER SEASON 2024/25
GRANDINETTI COMMUNAL THEATER OF CATANZARO
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stcz2425/