OSTIA ANTICA FESTIVAL: NERI MARCORÈ il 21.09, REZZA-MASTRELLA il 24.09 e SERENA DANDINI il 28.09 chiudono la rassegna

The first edition of the RTI Teatro Romano Ostia Antica festival

OSTIA ANTICA FESTIVAL

NERI MARCORÈ, REZZA-MASTRELLA and SERENA DANDINI close the festival

The last performances on the stage of the Roman Theater.

"GABER - Monologues and songs" - Neri Marcorè September 21

"Amistade" - Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella on September 24

"Vieni avanti cretina. Next!" - Serena Dandini on September 28

Shows start at 9 pm

Tickets on Ticketone: https://www.ticketone.it/artist/ostia-antica-festival/

Neri Marcorè

Amistade - Photo by Andrea Mignona

Serena Dandini

After the poetic force of Patti Smith and the Sicilian tradition sung by Carmen Consoli, the last three shows of the season signed by Neri Marcorè, Flavia Rezza and Antonio Mastrella, and Serena Dandini arrive at the Ostia Antica Festival.

On Saturday, September 21, Neri Marcorè brings back the spirit and style of Giorgio Gaber to the stage. An innovator, inventor of an original artistic form such as theater-song, a desecrator of myths and fashions, a poet of words whose thoughts are more current than ever, Mr. G was this and much more. Neri Marcorè brings him back to life in Ostia Antica through monologues and songs, from the most famous to the least known, through his sharp irony and his mocking mask.

Rezza-Mastrella arrive on Tuesday, September 24 with the show Amistade: a multimedia work - co-produced by the Theater of Sardinia - which uses new technologies, videomapping, and projections. Sound fragments will tell about concerts and thoughts of Fabrizio De André, which alternate and blend with the concepts, voice, and body of Antonio Rezza on stage with Ivan Bellavista.

A work of contamination between the poetry of Fabrizio De André and that of Fratto_X, which addresses plagiarism through a disruptive narration, where absence gives a show and the body wrapped in luminous trails creates anthropomorphic figures.

"AMISTADE, when it was not yet AMISTADE, was proposed to us by Dori Ghezzi with the tenacity that characterizes her. It is a work where our rebellion joins that of Fabrizio for a posthumous but always current alliance": explain Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza.

Serena Dandini takes the stage on Saturday, September 28 with her "Vieni avanti cretina. Next!", a production signed by Teatro Carcano in collaboration with Mismaonda. The show - with a somewhat audacious title but in line with the times when female emancipation still seems far away - pays homage to female "cretinism" in comedy, also a field that has always been the prerogative of men.

With this theatrical format, Dandini simply says enough to the Ginger Rogers syndrome who has to do everything that Fred Astaire does, but in heels and walking backward. For centuries - she says - they have called us idiots and finally we can deliberately define ourselves as such in an entirely feminine comedy evening that takes inspiration for the title from the variety show 'Vieni avanti, cretino!', made famous by the Fratelli De Rege. It's a game, a provocation... because remember, behind a great idiot often hides a woman too intelligent".

To accompany her on the stage of the Roman Theater are Federica Cacciola, Cristina Chinaglia, Marianna Folli, Laura Formenti, Annagaia Marchioro, Germana Pasquero, Gioia Salvatori, and Le Hostress.

The grouping RTI Teatro Romano Ostia Antica, created for the management and enhancement of the Ancient Roman Theater of Ostia, consists of companies with a decades-long experience in programming and carrying out entertainment activities and managing stage structures and cultural venues: Bass Culture srl as the lead company, GE.SER.T. and Co. srl, Beat Production, Knock srl, and Mania Teatro srls. Thanks to the versatility of the various companies involved, all performing arts can be staged. As evidence, here are some shows and events, even long-lasting, within the "Cultural Sites" such as: Archaeological Park of Egnazia; Schuster Park at the UNESCO site of San Paolo Fuori le Mura; Historical Villas in Rome, including Villa Ada; Montemartini Museum - Basilica of Maxentius.

OSTIA ANTICA FESTIVAL - ROMAN THEATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK - VIALE DEI ROMAGNOLI 717 - 00119 - OSTIA ANTICA Ostia Antica Festival: https://ostiaanticafestival.it/