Il Re scugnizzo al Teatro Serra in scena gli allievi

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A tale that has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Moral Patronage of the Education and Interinstitutional Relations Department of the Municipality of Naples, for its High Pedagogical and Educational Value. “Il Re scugnizzo” is a reinterpretation of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” written and directed by Mauro Palumbo, who transforms Victor Hugo's masterpiece into a musical comedy set in 18th-century Naples, filled with traditions, songs, poverty, and proud dignity. It will be staged at the Teatro Serra in Fuorigrotta, located at Via Diocleziano 316, for two consecutive weekends, from March 20 to 22 and March 27 to 29 (Friday at 9:00 PM, Saturday at 7:00 PM, Sunday at 6:00 PM). This represents the second event of the season with students from the Laboratory, which also involves younger kids and professional actors from the School. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

Featuring Carmine De Luca (Quasimodo), Fortuna Galdieri (Pulcinella), Pietro Tammaro (San Gennaro), Umberto Natale (Sant’Antonio), Mariangela Varriale (Santa Lucia), Roberto Scarpati (Febo), Mauro Palumbo (Frollo), Sara Paesano (‘a Smeralda), Antonella Ciliberti, Lucia D’Alessio, Nuzzy Romano, Silvia Catuogno (lazzare), Vittorio Ariante, and Diego Esposito (guards). Choreography by Martina Miglino. Dance company: Angela Cangiano, Anna Corcione, Francesca Paviciulli, Fabiana Palumbo, Marzia Fraia, Penelope Vilardi. Costumes by Sandra Banco. Original music by “I Villanella,” composed by Sergio Carleo and arranged by Patty Marotta and Francescopaolo Perreca. Assistant director Diego Esposito.

A comedy that pushes beyond clichés, familiar settings, and well-known faces, to explore the less visible folds of history. In 1759, Charles of Bourbon left Naples to take the throne of Spain in place of his deceased brother, entrusting the Kingdom and his son Ferdinand IV, who was only eight years old, to the Regency Council. However, the legitimate heir was someone else: the chronicles of the time tell us about a prince, the firstborn of Charles and Maria Amalia of Saxony, who was excluded from the government due to his precarious mental health (now believed to have been autism). But how many secrets lie behind a Court... and this is the story of a man who lived in the shadows. His name is Quasimodo, brother of Ferdinand, born a few years earlier deformed and misshapen. An "accident" quickly hidden by making people believe that the child was born dead; instead, he would be segregated for life in the Cathedral of Naples and entrusted, in exchange for the investiture as Cardinal and numerous other privileges, to the custody of the ruthless and powerful usurer Frollo.

Years go by. It is September 19, 1767, the Feast of San Gennaro, and the city prepares to celebrate the Patron Saint. Depressed, isolated from the world, worn down by loneliness, Quasimodo seeks comfort from his only “friends,” the hilarious and imaginative statues of Saints Gennaro, Antonio, and Lucia, who urge him to disobey the orders and join the celebration where he will meet 'a Smeralda, a young and beautiful lazzara, contested by the head of the guards Febo and by Frollo himself, who is so obsessed with the girl that he puts her life in danger. Will our protagonist manage to save the beautiful commoner? Certainly, the legends that straddle between myth and reality recount that thanks to the honor earned by the monster “scugnato c’o pizzo” – toothless with a hump – from that day on, the children of Naples will be proudly called “Scugnizzi.”

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