Yours, the THEATRE that speaks of you here and now

Presented “Yours, the Theater that talks about you here and now,” the new showcase dedicated to the contemporary, organized by Pilar Ternera/NTC in collaboration with Cinema Teatro i 4 Mori.

With “Yours,” we will confront stories that speak directly to us, here and now, inviting the audience to an open dialogue with the present. Francesco Cortoni, Artistic Director, has presented the season focusing on the journey ahead: a path of discovery through works that intertwine with the reality of everyday life, offering a magnifying glass on the contemporary and on our experiences.

“Tua” is conceived as a gift, a gift to the city of Livorno and to all those who wish to approach the languages of contemporary theater. This project stems from the desire to offer the community a season rich in innovative performances created by artists and theatrical collectives that have established themselves strongly in the national and international theater scene of the last ten years. With this showcase, hosted by Cinema Teatro 4 Mori, we aim to inaugurate a renewed cultural dialogue, giving Livorno a new showcase that fills a project void that we strongly feel.

The showcase, consisting of four events with award-winning productions for their excellence and relevance, will open in November with Filippo Nigro in Every Brilliant Thing, and continue until March with Teatro Sotterraneo in Overload, Ubu Award 2018, Teatro Metastasio in Non Three Sisters, the 2022 Critics’ Award winner, and Silvia Gallarano in La Merda, a multi-award-winning show winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Rete Critica award 2012.
With this collaboration, Pilar Ternera and Cinema Teatro i 4 Mori aim to unite and expand their audiences, proposing proposals capable of dialoguing with a broad audience.

The contemporary cut of the showcase looks towards the future and the renewal of the audience, which is a mission of the organizers, bringing theater closer to those generations that do not currently find themselves in the other valuable proposals present in the city but look to a different type of audience.

PROGRAM

NOVEMBER 10, 5.30 PM

Filippo Nigro in

EVERY BRILLIANT THING

Things worth living for

Directed by Fabrizio Arcuri/Filippo Nigro

Written in 2013 by Duncan Macmillan together with Johnny Donahoe – who is also the first actor – and presented the same year, with great success, at the Edinburgh Festival, Every Brilliant Thing is a joyful autobiography punctuated by lists of “things worth living for.” Filippo Nigro, protagonist and director along with Fabrizio Arcuri of this Italian version, brings to life a human and informal confessional tale of special moments, illuminations, small quirks, encounters, emotions, and unforgettable moments, during which the relationships with the father, with the first love, the failure of his marriage, the search for help in difficult times, become more and more focused. This is how, in the end, the list becomes useful, more to himself than to his mother: “If you live long enough and come to the end of your days without ever feeling totally crushed, at least once, by depression, well, then it means you haven’t been very attentive!”

JANUARY 26, 5.30 PM

Teatro Sotterraneo in

OVERLOAD

UBU AWARD SHOW OF THE YEAR 2018

BEST OF BE FESTIVAL AWARD (BIRMINGHAM)

1 paragraph. 199 words. 1282 characters. Estimated time 1’10”. Can you read this text without interruptions? Attention is a form of alienation: the point is knowing what to alienate in. That’s why we always seem lost searching for something, even when we only perform a few imperceptible gestures attached to small bright bubbles, and it’s not clear who listens and who speaks, who works and who enjoys, who truly finds something and who is just confused. Have you made it this far without shifting your gaze? Really? And isn’t this effort of doing only one thing at a time unbearable? Look around: how many other things attract your attention? Now look at yourself from above: can you see yourself? The surfaces of the most densely inhabited territories on Earth are covered by a dense fog of messages, images, and sounds in which people move, interact, sleep. Sometimes louder noises rise that the fog immediately absorbs as it flickers and resonates. Seen from here, the planet simply seems too noisy and distracted to survive – even the glaciers melt too slowly for anyone to pay attention to them.

Let’s go back to the ground and look closely: we are all changing… into something very, very fast.

FEBRUARY 16, 5.30 PM

Teatro Metastasio in

NON THREE SISTERS/ He tpи cectpи

Freely not inspired by a work of A. Chekhov

Directed by Enrico Baraldi

CRITIC’S AWARD 2022

In 2020 we start rehearsals for an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, titled Not Three Sisters. Due to the pandemic, we postponed the debut for two years. On February 24, 2022, just as we resume rehearsing, we are awakened by the images of Russian tanks entering Ukraine. Overnight, Moscow changes its face. Suddenly nothing seems to make sense anymore: what can we do, as Europeans, as citizens, and ultimately as artists, in the face of images of a war that seems more involving than others? What is the role of culture in all of this? What sense does it make to do theater, to stage a show, at this historical moment? What does Chekhov have to do with it now?

We have discovered that “To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!”, one of the most famous lines in world theater, now acquires an unexpected, controversial, problematic, and in some ways dangerous meaning. We have discovered that, today, staging a Chekhov text is no longer a neutral choice, whether we want it or not…

We asked three of them, three Ukrainian actresses, to speak up and tell their story on stage with us.

Show in Italian, English, Ukrainian and Russian, with Italian and Ukrainian surtitles

MARCH 9, 5.30 PM

Silvia Gallerano in

LA MERDA

starring Silvia Gallerano

written and directed by Cristian Cerasoli

FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER AND CRITIC’S AWARD 2012

After winning the Edinburgh Fringe and achieving enormous success with audiences and critics worldwide (from Europe to Brazil, from Australia to North America) after about 600 performances and over 11 years since its debut in 2012, La Merda celebrates the twelfth anniversary of its live tour.

The “extraordinary, brutal, disturbing, and human” (The Times) text on the human condition by Cristian Ceresoli boasts the “extraordinary, sublime, and skin-crawling” (The Guardian) performance of Silvia Gallerano, the first Italian actress to win The Stage Award for Acting Excellence.

La Merda, a phenomenon that has long crossed the boundaries of theater and is welcomed almost as if it were a rock concert, manifests as a poetic stream of consciousness where the bulimic and revolting public confession of a “young” “ugly” woman trying with obstinacy, resistance, and courage to carve out a place in the society of Thighs and Freedoms unleashes.

TICKETS:

Front row: full price € 25.00 – reduced price € 23.00

Chair: full price € 22.00 – reduced price € 20.00

Gallery: full price € 20.00 – reduced price € 18.00

Balustrade: full price € 18.00 – reduced price € 16.00

SUBSCRIPTIONS:

4 Shows

Front row: full price € 80.00 – reduced price € 75.00

Chair: full price € 70.00 – reduced price € 65.00

Gallery: full price € 65.00 – reduced price € 60.00

Balustrade: full price € 55.00 – reduced price € 50.00

3 Shows

Front row: full price € 65.00 – reduced price € 60.00

Chair: full price € 55.00 – reduced price € 50.00

Gallery: full price € 50.00 – reduced price € 45.00

Balustrade: full price € 45.00 – reduced price € 40.00

2 Shows

Front row: full price € 45.00 – reduced price € 40.00

Chair: full price € 40.00 – reduced price € 35.00

Gallery: full price € 35.00 – reduced price € 30.00

Balustrade: full price € 30.00 – reduced price € 25.00

For information:

Teatro 4 Mori
342 5431274

Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie
3420352386