Mine Vaganti

MINE VAGANTI

A SHOW BY

FERZAN OZPETEK

with

FRANCESCO PANNOFINO

IAIA FORTE

ERIK TONELLI

CARMINE RECANO

and with

SIMONA MARCHINI

e (in o.a.)

ROBERTA ASTUTI 

SARAH FALANGA

MIMMA LOVOI

FRANCESCO MAGGI

LUCA PANTINI

JACOPO SORBINI 

set design

LUIGI FERRIGNO

costumes

ALESSANDRO LAI

lighting design

PASQUALE MARI

Lo spettacolo ha debuttato to Teatro Comunale by Caserta on 17 January 2020.

Ferzan Ozpetek firma la sua prima directed by teatrale mettendo on stage l’adattamento by uno dei suoi capolavori cinematografici MINE VAGANTI

** 2 David Di Donatello  ** 5 Nastri D’Argento  ** 4 Globi D’Oro

Special Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York · Ciak d'Oro for Best Film

Come trasporto i sentimenti, i momenti malinconici, le risate sul palcoscenico?

This was the first question I asked myself – and it made me a little anxious – when the idea of bringing Mine vaganti to the stage began to take shape. The first time I told the story to the film producer Domenico Procacci, he was very struck by it and added, enthusiastically, that it could also make an excellent play. Shortly afterwards we started the film project and asked Ivan Cotroneo to collaborate on the screenplay.

Today, at Marco Balsamo's invitation, that prospect becomes reality, with an ensemble cast and a staging that leaves the spirit of the film intact.

Of course, I had to work by subtraction, keeping what was essential, intriguing, attractive and funny. I left out situations I loved, but what cinema shows, theatre hides; so I sacrificed some scenes and invented others, partly to give the production new life.

The setting changes too. A story like this could no longer hold up in Salento today, so I set it in a small town like Gragnano, or somewhere nearby – a place where coming out would still cause a scandal. The Cantone family remains, owners of a large pasta factory, with their deep-rooted upper-middle-class traditions and a father eager to hand the running of the business down to his two sons. Everything falls apart when one of them declares he is gay, beating to it his younger brother, who has come back from Rome precisely to open up to his family and live in truth.

I tell stories about people, about sexual choices, about the struggle to adapt to a social change that is by now irreversible. Here the role of the pater familias is emblematic – dramatic and ironic at the same time.

The emotion of the close-ups has given way to punctuation and words; the three gay friends have become two, and I have added a little show within the show so as to underline – even caricature – the traits that on screen reached the audience through the camera. Theatre can afford the luxury of silence, but silences must be hilarious; otherwise they have to be filled with many lines and a strong, overwhelming rhythm. For this I drew on my own experiences.

One should never be bored at the theatre. That was my starting point, to keep the show from being slow. I chose a continuous rhythm that never stops, not even during scene changes. Credit goes to Luigi Ferrigno, who invented a play of moving curtains; Pasquale Mari's lighting does its part too, as do Alessandro Lai's colourful, flamboyant costumes.

I have made a comedy I would enjoy going to see at the theatre, where the audience is an integral part of the staging and interacts with the actors, who often perform towards the stalls as if they were in the town square, looking at it as they speak. The square – the audience – is the beating heart that sets the pulse of the play.

Ferzan Ozpetek

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MINE VAGANTI

A SHOW BY

FERZAN OZPETEK

with

FRANCESCO PANNOFINO

IAIA FORTE

ERASMO GENZINI

CARMINE RECANO

and with

SIMONA MARCHINI

e (in o.a.)

ROBERTA ASTUTI – SARAH FALANGA – MIMMA LOVOI

FRANCESCO MAGGI – LUCA PANTINI – EDOARDO PURGATORI

set design

LUIGI FERRIGNO

costumes

ALESSANDRO LAI

lighting design

PASQUALE MARI

Lo spettacolo ha debuttato to Teatro Comunale by Caserta on 17 January 2020.

Ferzan Ozpetek firma la sua prima directed by teatrale mettendo on stage l’adattamento by uno dei suoi capolavori cinematografici MINE VAGANTI

** 2 David Di Donatello  ** 5 Nastri D’Argento  ** 4 Globi D’Oro

Special Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York · Ciak d'Oro for Best Film

Come trasporto i sentimenti, i momenti malinconici, le risate sul palcoscenico?

This was the first question I asked myself – and it made me a little anxious – when the idea of bringing Mine vaganti to the stage began to take shape. The first time I told the story to the film producer Domenico Procacci, he was very struck by it and added, enthusiastically, that it could also make an excellent play. Shortly afterwards we started the film project and asked Ivan Cotroneo to collaborate on the screenplay.

Today, at Marco Balsamo's invitation, that prospect becomes reality, with an ensemble cast and a staging that leaves the spirit of the film intact.

Of course, I had to work by subtraction, keeping what was essential, intriguing, attractive and funny. I left out situations I loved, but what cinema shows, theatre hides; so I sacrificed some scenes and invented others, partly to give the production new life.

The setting changes too. A story like this could no longer hold up in Salento today, so I set it in a small town like Gragnano, or somewhere nearby – a place where coming out would still cause a scandal. The Cantone family remains, owners of a large pasta factory, with their deep-rooted upper-middle-class traditions and a father eager to hand the running of the business down to his two sons. Everything falls apart when one of them declares he is gay, beating to it his younger brother, who has come back from Rome precisely to open up to his family and live in truth.

I tell stories about people, about sexual choices, about the struggle to adapt to a social change that is by now irreversible. Here the role of the pater familias is emblematic – dramatic and ironic at the same time.

The emotion of the close-ups has given way to punctuation and words; the three gay friends have become two, and I have added a little show within the show so as to underline – even caricature – the traits that on screen reached the audience through the camera. Theatre can afford the luxury of silence, but silences must be hilarious; otherwise they have to be filled with many lines and a strong, overwhelming rhythm. For this I drew on my own experiences.

One should never be bored at the theatre. That was my starting point, to keep the show from being slow. I chose a continuous rhythm that never stops, not even during scene changes. Credit goes to Luigi Ferrigno, who invented a play of moving curtains; Pasquale Mari's lighting does its part too, as do Alessandro Lai's colourful, flamboyant costumes.

I have made a comedy I would enjoy going to see at the theatre, where the audience is an integral part of the staging and interacts with the actors, who often perform towards the stalls as if they were in the town square, looking at it as they speak. The square – the audience – is the beating heart that sets the pulse of the play.

Ferzan Ozpetek

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MINE VAGANTI

A SHOW BY

FERZAN OZPETEK

FRANCESCO PANNOFINO

PAOLA MINACCIONI 

ARTURO MUSELLI 

GIORGIO MARCHESI   

and withCATERINA VERTOVA

e (in o.a.)

ROBERTA ASTUTI – SARAH FALANGA – MIMMA LOVOI

FRANCESCO MAGGI – LUCA PANTINI – EDOARDO PURGATORI

set design

LUIGI FERRIGNO

costumes

ALESSANDRO LAI

lighting design

PASQUALE MARI

production photos

ROMOLO EUCALITTO

Lo spettacolo ha debuttato to Teatro Comunale by Caserta on 17 January 2020.

Ferzan Ozpetek firma la sua prima directed by teatrale mettendo on stage l’adattamento by uno dei suoi capolavori cinematografici MINE VAGANTI

** 2 David Di Donatello  ** 5 Nastri D’Argento  ** 4 Globi D’Oro

Special Jury Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York · Ciak d'Oro for Best Film

FRANCESCO PANNOFINO è Vincenzo Cantone (padre by Tommaso e Antonio)

PAOLA MINACCIONI è Stefania Cantone (madre by Tommaso e Antonio)

ARTURO MUSELLI è Tommaso Cantone (fratello minore by Antonio)

GIORGIO MARCHESI è Antonio Cantone (fratello maggiore by Tommaso)

CATERINA VERTOVA è la Nonna (mamma by Vincenzo)

ROBERTA ASTUTI è Alba Brunetti (socia by Tommaso)

SARAH FALANGA è Zia Luciana (sorella by Vincenzo)

MIMMA LOVOI è Teresa (cameriera by casa Cantone)

FRANCESCO MAGGI è Andrea (amico by Tommaso)

LUCA PANTINI è Marco (compagno by Tommaso)

EDOARDO PURGATORI è Davide (amico by Tommaso)

Come trasporto i sentimenti, i momenti malinconici, le risate sul palcoscenico?

This was the first question I asked myself – and it made me a little anxious – when the idea of bringing Mine vaganti to the stage began to take shape. The first time I told the story to the film producer Domenico Procacci, he was very struck by it and added, enthusiastically, that it could also make an excellent play. Shortly afterwards we started the film project and asked Ivan Cotroneo to collaborate on the screenplay.

Today, at Marco Balsamo's invitation, that prospect becomes reality, with an ensemble cast and a staging that leaves the spirit of the film intact.

Of course, I had to work by subtraction, keeping what was essential, intriguing, attractive and funny. I left out situations I loved, but what cinema shows, theatre hides; so I sacrificed some scenes and invented others, partly to give the production new life.

The setting changes too. A story like this could no longer hold up in Salento today, so I set it in a small town like Gragnano, or somewhere nearby – a place where coming out would still cause a scandal. The Cantone family remains, owners of a large pasta factory, with their deep-rooted upper-middle-class traditions and a father eager to hand the running of the business down to his two sons. Everything falls apart when one of them declares he is gay, beating to it his younger brother, who has come back from Rome precisely to open up to his family and live in truth.

I tell stories about people, about sexual choices, about the struggle to adapt to a social change that is by now irreversible. Here the role of the pater familias is emblematic – dramatic and ironic at the same time.

The emotion of the close-ups has given way to punctuation and words; the three gay friends have become two, and I have added a little show within the show so as to underline – even caricature – the traits that on screen reached the audience through the camera. Theatre can afford the luxury of silence, but silences must be hilarious; otherwise they have to be filled with many lines and a strong, overwhelming rhythm. For this I drew on my own experiences.

One should never be bored at the theatre. That was my starting point, to keep the show from being slow. I chose a continuous rhythm that never stops, not even during scene changes. Credit goes to Luigi Ferrigno, who invented a play of moving curtains; Pasquale Mari's lighting does its part too, as do Alessandro Lai's colourful, flamboyant costumes.

I have made a comedy I would enjoy going to see at the theatre, where the audience is an integral part of the staging and interacts with the actors, who often perform towards the stalls as if they were in the town square, looking at it as they speak. The square – the audience – is the beating heart that sets the pulse of the play.

Ferzan Ozpetek

Articoli

Corriere della Sera – Roma

la Repubblica

Corriere del Mezzogiorno

la Repubblica – Bari

il Fatto Quotidiano

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