The review Summer Carnival returns to liven up Piazza Torino with brilliant theatrical performances and commedia dell'arte, offering fun evenings suitable for all ages.
Saturday, June 27: Marcà - Popular Comedy
A hilarious comedy set among the gossip of the Marca’ where everyone minds their own business and the affairs of others.
The protagonist is the famous Gigia, known for having been present at every marca’, festival, and fair in Eastern Veneto with her stall of oily, sweet fritters that enticed and delighted the greedy with that ambiguous sign "always warm 'a fritola de'a siora Gigia"; a double entendre not too subtly implied that, in addition to doubts about the father of her child, fuels gossip and slander. Will Gigia manage to redeem herself and silence the malicious tongues? You just have to follow us through the alleys of the Marca’ to find out!
Saturday, July 4: Casanova Grand Tour - Commedia dell'arte
Giacomo Casanova, a man with a thousand lives, a thousand faces, and a thousand names, always in search of love. But as they say, those who want too much... And so, with a light heart and a will to go, he embarks on a long and endless Grand Tour to escape his sentence.
After a thrilling escape and an equally chaotic journey through European courts, our hero will arrive beyond the Pillars of Hercules, landing in the land of freedom, opportunities, dreams, and destiny.
Disguises, pantomimes, songs, and duels are the ingredients of this intricate scenario that, like its protagonist, is partly real history and partly pure invention.
Saturday, July 25: What Spirit My Mother-in-Law - Comedy in Venetian Dialect
In the home of the mature spouses Furlan, Piero and Ortensia, tranquility is still disturbed by the burdensome presence of mother-in-law Palmira, despite her sharp remarks towards her son-in-law having fallen silent for some time.
Ortensia's stubbornness to reconnect with her mother has led her to study spiritual practices, which she intends to implement at home involving a small circle of self-proclaimed experts and willing friends.
Ortensia's insistence disorients and worries Piero, who, feeling neglected, will seek comfort in the arms of affectionate companions…
Misunderstandings and unforeseen events will create a whirlwind of unpredictable and intriguing situations that, in the end, will leave space for a restored harmony between husband and wife.
Saturday, August 8: The Seeds of Madness - Commedia dell'arte
Set in the psychedelic 1970s, "The Seeds of Madness" is an ironic show with rapid rhythms and full of twists in which, in a crescendo of intrigues and mysteries, a story is brought to life that balances between reality and fantasy, nightmare and dream.
A challenging endeavor that has propelled Eugene Labiche's work "L’affaire de rue de Lourcine," from the bourgeois salons of Paris to the Venice of the post-Beatles era. In fact, there are many analogies between vaudeville and Commedia dell'arte: first and foremost, the characters, with their traits and masks, the critique aimed at a certain social class, the "aside" to the audience, and above all the situational comedy.
Wednesday, August 12: Just to Say Goodbye - Concert Theatre
It is the story of a man from our land who, deported to England during World War II, lives an intense love story, convinced that it has ended with his return home after liberation.
But the woman he left behind will never forget him and fifty years later, once she has become a widow, even at nearly ninety years old, she resumes her search for that love she has never forgotten until she reaches the riverbank where he rests.
Saturday, August 22: The Odyssey According to Me - Musical Theatre
An impassioned and humorous theatrical tale that humorously retraces the events of Ulysses, from the Trojan War to his return to Ithaca, narrated by the poet Homer in the Odyssey.
A journey filled with meetings, characters, adventures, battles, shipwrecks, and enchantments, represented in a pleasant, amusing, and engaging way, thanks to the active participation of the audience.
The show is enriched by live musical pieces that accompany the story, providing continuity through notes and words.
The interplay of sounds, lights, and colors completes the work, bringing to life an intriguing play that captivates the audience.
Saturday, August 29: Trial for a Broken Jug - Comedy in Venetian Dialect
A perfect comedy, where the interest is sustained by an impeccable plot and the portrayal of all vividly interesting and intelligently comic characters.
With a subtle bravura and in a popular context, the profile of a late 1800s judge is traced who finds himself in the paradoxical situation of investigating a crime of which he himself is guilty, representing the absurdity of a soul that can no longer recognize an objective reality.
The broken jug thus mocks the fallibility of human nature and the legal system, with a keen sense of the grotesque and a hilariously accurate characterization of the characters.
Since the Italian language poorly lends itself to effectively conveying the language of farmers, the staging and setting are invigorated, enhanced, and made more effective by the use of our magical and hilarious Venetian dialect.
Artistic Direction: Giovanni Giusti
