Presentata Fuoriclassici Stagione 2025/26 del Teatro Serra

Presented "Fuoriclassici" 2025/26 Season at Teatro Serra in Naples. An unconventional program of new dramaturgy and revisited classics. At Fuorigrotta, Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

Exciting developments at Teatro Serra in Naples, launching its tenth season with new spaces and a renewed array of workshops and cultural offerings. These initiatives continue the journey started in 2016 to establish a training center that nurtures contemporary dramaturgy talents, rooted in a deep understanding of tradition. This project has birthed "Fuoriclassici," the schedule for the 2025/26 Season, introduced on Tuesday, September 16, at the theater venue in Fuorigrotta, Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

Twenty performances will be staged from October to May, all on weekends, offering themes of current relevance, revisited classics, and stagings curated by students from the school: an actual company born from training workshops. Key themes include: the restlessness of contemporary womanhood, the individual's relationship with societal dogmas and restrictions, with illness, nature, contemporary society's alienation, choice, responsibility, and the meaning of courage and sacrifice, language and its manipulation.

"With the expansion of the spaces, we take a fundamental step: being able to conduct multiple workshops simultaneously and hosting exhibitions, conferences, book presentations, and film forums," say founders Pietro Tammaro and Mauro Palumbo. "This means opening the doors even wider to the city. After years of work and perseverance, seeing this place grow reaffirms that theater is not just a stage but a place of meeting, of community. The new program and the works produced are an investment not only in the physical space but in the possibility of experiencing theater as a daily, shared, and necessary experience, rooted in the territory and at the same time looking beyond its borders."

The renovation, carried out over the summer, also to safeguard the structure from the effects of bradyseism, has literally cemented the artistic twinning between the Phlegraean space and the "Turm 20" Theater in Linz, Austria, located within a medieval tower restored through volunteer efforts, which conducted a crowdfunding campaign covering 12% of the expenses incurred.

The season
The season opens with the poignant poetry of a tale by Oscar Wilde: Friday, October 10, featuring "The Rose and the Nightingale," marking the directorial debut of poet and musician Mario Severino, running until Sunday, October 12. "Double Mirror" by Anita Mosca with Isabella Mosca Lamounier, with original music by Salvatore Morra and artworks by Ciro Di Matteo, portrays a mother and daughter confronting the challenges of a patriarchal and provincial society (October 17-19). Two different perspectives and languages narrate the past that won't die in the thriller "Pheasant Call" by Genoese creators Igor Chierici and Luca Cicolella (Friday, October 24) and in "VIPeS" homage to Antonio Petito by Angelo Perrotta and Melania Pellino (Saturday, October 25, and Sunday, October 26). "Suspire d'ammore," a serenade for guitar and voice featuring Elisabetta D'Acunzo and Maestro Aniello Palomba, highlights the poetry and modernity of Neapolitan classical tradition interpreted by a great artist (November 7-9). "Les confidences entre Julie et la madame," directed by Davide Rossetti, is a humorous and grotesque bourgeois comedy about the attempt to erase the past, inspired by René de Obaldia, featuring Salvatore Amabile and Antonio Musella (November 14-16). "August" by Simone Somma with Roberta Astuti presents a dreamlike and unsettling drama about the female condition (November 28-30). The myth of Troy, its humanity, the sense, and the value of choice, courage, and responsibility are explored in "The Fall" by Gennaro Esposito with Enrico Disegni, Giuseppe Di Gennaro, and Sara Guardascione (December 12-14). An unexpected event shakes the lazy existence of a group of long-time friends in the dark comedy "Tenants" by Filippo Stasi, featuring Mattia D'Angelo, Michele Pedata, Simona De Sarno, Daniele Arfè, and Viola Capponcelli, with Anna Bocchino as assistant director and music by Mario Autore (January 9-11). "For Faith or Love" chronicles a shipwreck recounted by a Syrian refugee escaping from the war. Based on a true story collected by Roman writer Giulia Nemiz Gregory, a finalist for the 2024 "Serra-Campi Flegrei" Prize with an extract of the play (January 23-25). "Positive Love" by Alessio Palumbo, a finalist for the 2024 "Serra-Campi Flegrei" Prize, explores the transformation love brings to life against all stigma (February 6-8). How many forms of love exist? In "Hold Here a Moment," two women converse with irony and nostalgia about love, with Patrizia Eger, Maria Strazzullo, and Sergio Mautone on guitar (Saturday, February 14). "The Case of Alessandro and Maria: Curious Reenactment of a Story That Has Already Happened" by Giorgio Gaber and Sandro Luporini features two lovers reuniting after years, unable to forget each other, starring Giacomo Casaula, Laura Cascio, and Andrea Barone on keyboards (February 20-22). A tribute to Led Zeppelin with "Runes of Kashmir," a concert featuring sensual and enveloping tones, with Luca Melorio on guitar, Rita Genni on vocals, Emanuel Savarese on drums, and Giuseppe Bucciero on bass (Friday, February 27, and Saturday, February 28). A love story that changes lives until the day the fate of an entire city intervenes. "The Venus of Earthquakes" (March 13-15) by Roberto Azzurro presents a classic by Manlio Santanelli. "Anagnorisis," the revelation; a manifesto on the search for contemporary female identity by Francesca Esposito, with Adriana D'Agostino and Carmela Ioime (March 27-29). A profound experience questioning the present with words from a past that never ceases to inspire is at the heart of "Woman born," a site-specific performance on the word in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" by Toni Garbini from Parma, featuring Emiliano Iovine and Annaviola Fantini, with music by Zerogroove (April 10-12). "Ardea. Memories from a River," directed by Caterina Piotti, presents a poetic, all-female performance on the strength of Nature, embracing our memories. Set design by Lucia Fiorani, with Chiara Mirta Buono, Elisa Cardoso, Laura Casali, recipient of the "In-Corti da Artemia" 2025 Prize (April 24-26). Piera Saladino's "Domestike Dive" offers a Neapolitan mosaic on the rebellion every woman nurtures within (May 17-19).

For the first time, the program will officially include performances by the theater school's student company, staging "Quei figuri di tanti anni" by Eduardo De Filippo from December 19 to 21, 2025, and "Il Re scugnizzo," written and directed by Mauro Palumbo, from March 20 to 22, 2026.

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