IL MESSAGGERO DELLE STELLE

✨ AT THE THEATER WITH MOM AND DAD
at the multidisciplinary Festival MASCHERE D'OLIVO
🎭 Abeliano Theater in Bari

📌 Sunday, December 1st at 6 PM

THE MESSENGER OF THE STARS
by Francesco Niccolini
scientific consultation: Marco Giliberti

with Flavio Albanese
directed by: Marinella Anaclerio
set design and graphics: Francesco Arrivo
videos and animations: Giuseppe Magrone
costume: Simona De Castro
lights: Cristian Allegrini
assistant director: Stella Addario
organization: Dario Giliberti
executive production: Caterina Wierdis
communication: Marilù Ursi
Production: Compagnia del Sole | Fondazione Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani Onlus | Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri (2022) in collaboration with: Department of Culture of the Municipality of Gioia del Colle (BA) and under the patronage of: INAF – National Institute for Astrophysics

Not a medieval knight, even more: a true paladin of Charlemagne is the protagonist of the show. He doesn't just come on stage like any character, he literally falls from the sky. He is not any paladin; he is Astolfo of England, the most surprising, strange, and blundering among all Charlemagne's paladins. He falls from the sky because he always travels to and from the Moon: his task is to bring back to Earth the sanity of Orlando, who lost it out of love for the beautiful Angelica. During his eternal travels, something unexpected happens—a special encounter up there on the Moon, where everything lost on Earth is preserved. He meets a group of old men dressed in ancient clothes, engaged—around a richly laden table—in discussion. They welcome him and open him to the mysteries of knowledge, between reason, madness, doubts, and mistakes: who these elderly gentlemen are, he will discover little by little, through a series of adventures and surprises that will lead him to understand how complicated and fascinating the path of understanding, freedom of thought, and science can be. Between surreal rhymes, a bit of science, and lots of pataphysics, the encounter between one of the magical protagonists of "Orlando Furioso" and Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and other great scientists of the past, turns into a carousel of surprises and discoveries, making Astolfo a true "messenger of the stars," just as Galileo Galilei was with his "Sidereus Nuncius" and his life full of surprises, even beyond death.
A brilliant show, largely in rhyme, where Francesco Niccolini and Flavio Albanese revisit the history of science after "The Universe is a Mattress."

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