For all Saturdays of the year (excluding part of the summer period and the main holidays) – the free guided itinerary Di saturday, guests at Casa Goldoni, with which you want to offer museum guests a portrait of the brilliant figure of Carlo Goldoni, of his theatrical work and of eighteenth-century Venetian society, described with such great fidelity and acuteness in his comedies.
Starting from the suggestions evoked by the layout of the Ca' Centani house-museum and making use of educational tools such as readings, projections and explanatory cards, which will make the visit even more engaging, participants will be offered the opportunity to get to know some of the most famous comedies by the artist, in addition to the different types of protagonists present in them and the portrait of Venice at the time, a real "city of pleasures".
The itinerary, with a fixed departure at 11 am, lasting 2 hours, is aimed at an audience of all ages and is free. The only cost, for non-resident visitors, will be the entrance ticket to the museum. Maximum number of participants 25.
Reservations are recommended on 0412759325 (Mon/Fri 10-15).
The occasion of two important anniversaries that fall in 2014 – the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the 145th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) – also provides the starting point for an intense cycle of conferences, readings and illustrations (two a month, from April to June and from September to November) on the two great authors who, although they lived in different eras, present very common themes in their works.
This is the case, among others, of the use of theater in the theatre, recurring in both Shakespeare and Pirandello, which influences their entire work also in relation to other aspects, such as the characters' characters, their identification both in the theater and in life or their manipulation by the author.
The themes proposed in the meetings, which see the intervention of important teachers and scholars such as Piermario Vescovo, Benedetta Bruzzese, Shaul Bassi, Loretta Innocenti, Paolo Puppa, Carmelo Alberti and Giulia Norbedo, touch on meta theatre, power and society and the eternal topicality, which will be analyzed taking into account the differences due to the diversity of era, thought, social climate, individual psychology, always however linked by the "magic" of the theater which precisely overcomes and cancels these differences in that timeless and placeless emotional sphere that only it belongs to it.
Below is the detailed program of the cycle of meetings (admission by invitation subject to availability of seats).
PROGRAM
William Shakespeare
Tuesday 8 April at 17.20pm
Conference ''Li incantesime mieje songhe fernute''
Travels and routes of Prospero (and of Shakespeare) in Italy.
Piermario Bishop lecturer
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday 15 April at 17.20pm
Illustration ''The storm''
Translation by Agostino Lombardo, sets and costumes by Luciano Damiani, music by
Fiorenzo Carpi, television direction by Carlo Battistoni, theater direction by Giorgio Strehler
Tuesday 6 May at 17.20
Conference: «But mercy is above this sceptred power, it has the
his throne in the hearts of kings… : power and society, ethics and justice in Shakespeare»
Lecturer Shaul Bassi
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday 13 May at 17.20
Illustration ''The Merchant of Venice''
Directed by John Sichel, with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright
Tuesday 3 June 17.20 hours
Conference '' Phrases of taffeta, silky exact big words, three-layered hyperbole, pure
affectation''
use of language and love rhetoric in Love's Labour's Lost
Lecturer: Loretta Innocenti
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday 10 June 17.20 hours
Illustration ''Love's Labour's Lost''
Directed by Kenneth Branagh with Kenneth Branagh, Alessandro Nigola, Matthew
Lillard and Alicia Silverstone
Luigi Pirandello
Tuesday September at 9 17.20
Conference ''But what fiction, reality! Reality, gentlemen, reality!: men and
characters in Pirandello's theater''
Lecturer Paolo Puppa
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday September at 16 17.20
Illustration ''Six characters in search of an author''
Directed by Giorgio De Lullo, staging by Pier Luigi Pizzi (Rome, Rai Trade,
Milan, RCS books, 2008, 136')
Tuesday 14 October at 17.20
Conference ''In the age of the Giants it is ''human'' to adapt, not to give anymore
messages, remain clowns that make you laugh and nothing else: art and poetry
Vs the power of consumerism and narrow-mindedness''
Carmelo Alberti lecturer
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday 21 October at 17.20
Illustration ''The Giants of the Mountain''
Directed by Giorgio Strehler, sets Ezio Frigerio, costumes Ezio Frigerio, Enrico Job,
Luisa Spinatelli, music by Fiorenzo Carpi, choreography by Marise Flach, television direction
Michel Muller (Rome, Rai Trade, Milan, Fabbri, 2007, approx. 128')
Tuesday 4 November at 17.00
Conference: ''Pirandello, C'est ainsi, a musical to escape''
Lecturer Giulia Norbedo
Readings of the pieces performed by Benedetta Bruzzese
Tuesday 11 November at 17.00
Screening ''The Wives Friend''
directed by Giorgio De Lullo, with Rossella Falk, Romolo Valli, Giulia Lazzarini, directed by
Giorgio De Lullo, sets and costumes: Pier Luigi Pizzi (Rome, Rai Trade, Milan, Fabbri,
2007, 136') (Casa Goldoni, location AV DVD 8.1)
CONFERENCE AND READINGS OF THE SHOW
“Diese francs de aqua de spasemo”
Thursday 10 May hours 17.20
Introduction by Roberto Cuppone and readings/interpretation by Gigi Mardegan
Between Shakespeare and Pirandello
Cycle of lectures, readings and illustrations
April-June/September-November, 17.20pm
Admission by invitation until seats are available
