Nessuno.

Nuovo Teatro diretta da Marco Balsamo
presents

STEFANO ACCORSI
in

NESSUNO
Le avventure by Ulisse

and withFrancesca Del Duca
textEmanuele Aldrovandi
adapted and directed byDANIELE FINZI PASCA
set designLuigi Ferrigno
costumesGiovanna Buzzi

We are delighted to announce the new show starring Stefano Accorsi, an artist with whom we have built a true partnership over the years. After the success of Marco Baliani's “Giocando con Orlando” and “Decamerone. Vizi, virtù e passioni”, and of “Azul”, written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, Stefano Accorsi immerses himself in a new and ambitious project: a theatrical rereading of the myth of Ulysses. The show is not a simple stage adaptation but a true journey into the psyche, the soul and the adventures of the most human of Homer's heroes. Nuovo Teatro thus continues its commitment to promoting and creating quality projects able to fascinate and engage a wide audience.

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Stefano Accorsi
(attore, regista, produttore)

Attore pluripremiato. Si divide tra teatro, cinema e televisione.

In 1991 he co-starred in Pupi Avati's film Fratelli e sorelle. He then studied at the Scuola di Teatro di Bologna, graduating in 1993, and joined the company of the Teatro Stabile dell'Arena del Sole, performing in several classics from Pirandello to Goldoni. In 1994 a commercial for a well-known ice cream, directed by Daniele Luchetti, made him instantly popular.

His films include: Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo by Enza Negroni, Piccoli maestri by Daniele Luchetti, Ormai è fatta by Enzo Monteleone, Un uomo perbene by Maurizio Zaccaro, Capitães de Abril by Maria de Medeiros, Come quando fuori piove by Mario Monicelli, Radiofreccia and Made in Italy by Luciano Ligabue; L'ultimo bacio, Baciami ancora, A casa tutti bene and Le cose non dette by Gabriele Muccino; Saturno contro, Le fate ignoranti, La Dea Fortuna and Diamanti by Ferzan Özpetek; La stanza del figlio by Nanni Moretti; Santa Maradona by Marco Ponti; Romanzo criminale and Un viaggio chiamato amore by Michele Placido; Tous les soleils by Philippe Claudel, Veloce come il vento by Matteo Rovere, Fortunata directed by Sergio Castellitto, Lasciami andare directed by Stefano Mordini and Marilyn ha gli occhi neri by Simone Godano. In 2021: Ipersonnia directed by Alberto Mascia, the short film Chiusi fuori directed by Giorgio Testi, and the Rai Uno TV series Vostro onore directed by Alessandro Casale.

In 2006 he returned to the stage with John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, directed by Sergio Castellitto. In the 2012 season he starred in the successful Furioso Orlando, and later in Giocando con Orlando and Giocando con Orlando – Assolo, freely adapted from Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric poem Orlando Furioso and directed by Marco Baliani; then in Decamerone. Vizi, virtù, passioni, freely adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, adapted and directed by Marco Baliani. In the 2022 season he appeared in Azul – Gioia, Furia, Fede y Eterno Amor, written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca.

He made his directing debut with the short film Io non ti conosco, produced by Federico Marchetti's Yoox Group, in which he also acts.

For Sky Italia, the series 1992 and its sequels 1993 and 1994, directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi, which he created and stars in. Also for Sky: Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope, Call My Agent – Italia directed by Luca Ribuoli, and Un amore directed by Francesco Lagi, a six-episode series he created, co-wrote and stars in.

Recent work: 50 km all'ora directed by Fabio De Luigi, the series The Bad Guy 2 for Prime Video, Marconi – l'uomo che ha connesso il mondo directed by Lucio Pellegrini for Rai Uno, Il treno dei bambini directed by Cristina Comencini, Diamanti by Ferzan Özpetek, Una figlia directed by Ivano De Matteo, Primavera directed by Damiano Michieletto, Amata directed by Elisa Amoruso, La lezione directed by Stefano Mordini, Le cose non dette directed by Gabriele Muccino and Il rumore delle cose nuove directed by Paolo Genovese.

Creator and artistic director of the festival “Planetaria – Storie che parlano al futuro”, a format for raising awareness about the environment, climate change and sustainability, combining art, performance and science.

Brief director's notes. Words need sweat in order to be played with elegance. For them to become light they must be stripped and smoothed, turned into multicoloured pebbles on an imaginary beach. I come from a theatre where the body hammers words, forging incoherent, dreamlike images. Finding these points of imbalance takes actors who are strong and delicate at the same time, used to using the body with the elasticity and power of a bow that shoots images into the audience's eyes. I am so glad to work with Stefano again: we understood each other easily when we built “Azul”, and now, tackling “Nessuno”, we will refine our complicity.

I am a conscientious objector; in my country I served a few months in prison for refusing military service, so telling the deeds of warriors is not only unusual for me but completely unprecedented – a kind of somersault without a net. I am a clown; I love simple heroes, losers, those in whom I recognise myself, the fragile ones, made of crumbling material. In the display cabinet at my grandmother's house were kept the cups of the best china, never used, too precious to handle. Everyday coffee was drunk from odd, chipped cups nobody was attached to. I inherited those cups, and I also took one of the good ones, which had shattered at the end of a Christmas lunch and was then kept for years in cotton wool, waiting for an improbable miracle.

When Stefano and Marco told me about this show, I thought the time had come to try to glue together the fragments of fine china – the precious kind that one would like to be invincible, which, when it breaks, reveals the humanity heroes should have. Then I wondered whether this Ulysses belonged to the good china or to the set Grandma used every day. Even today I wonder whether with this show we will glue together shattered pieces, or face the simplicity of the one you would want as your companion in every discussion, every chat in the belly of Grandma's kitchen, where epic adventures turned into the everyday of ordinary lives, and the adventures of simple people became the subtle weave of extraordinary lives.

Nessuno risponderà.

Daniele Finzi Pasca

Photos may be used for press purposes only and must be credited @Viviana Cangialosi – Compagnia Finzi Pasca; any other use must be agreed with the production.