"Il Re scugnizzo" al Teatro Serra in scena gli allievi

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A fairy tale that has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Moral Sponsorship of the Department of Education and Inter-institutional Relations of the Municipality of Naples, for its High Educational and Instructive Value. “Il Re scugnizzo” is a reimagining 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 appointment of the season with the students of the Workshop, which also involves younger boys 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 corps: 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 goes beyond clichés, familiar settings, and well-known faces, to explore the less visible folds of History. In 1759, Charles of Bourbon left Naples to succeed to the throne of Spain in place of his deceased brother, entrusting the Kingdom and his eight-year-old son Ferdinand IV to the Regency Council. However, the rightful heir was someone else: the chronicles of the time tell us of a prince, the firstborn of Charles and Maria Amalia of Saxony, excluded from governance due to his precarious mental health (it is believed today that he may have had autism), but how many secrets are hidden behind a Court... and this is the story of a man who lived in darkness. His name is Quasimodo, the brother of Ferdinand born a few years earlier deformed and malformed. An “accident” quickly concealed, leading to the belief that the child was stillborn; in reality, he would be confined for life in the Cathedral of Naples and entrusted, in exchange for the appointment as Cardinal and numerous other privileges, to the care of the ruthless and powerful usurer Frollo.

Years pass. It is September 19, 1767, the feast day of San Gennaro, and the city prepares to celebrate its 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 orders and join the celebration where he will meet ‘a Smeralda, a young and beautiful woman, courted by the chief of the guards Febo and by Frollo himself, who is obsessed with the girl to the point of endangering her life. Will our protagonist manage to save the beautiful commoner? Certainly, the legends that blend myth and reality tell that, thanks to the honor earned by the “scugnizzo with a hump” – toothless and hunchbacked – from that day forward, the children of Naples would be proudly called “Scugnizzi”.

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