About this Event
THE GREAT MAGIC (LA GRANDE MAGIA)
Adapted from the original play by Eduardo De Filippo and directed by Rosario Sparno
With Luca Iervolino, Antonella Romano, Rosario Sparno
Costumes Alessandra Gaudioso, Magic Tricks coach Massimiliano Foà
Production: Casa del Contemporaneo
Running time: 66 min
“Everything that happens before your eyes is just an illusion”
A jealous husband and his beautiful young wife are on holiday in the Italian Riviera. A magician
arrives at their luxury hotel and the wife steps into an Egyptian sarcophagus for the famous
"lady vanishes" routine. Only she really does vanish - into a nearby speedboat and the arms of
her lover. Out of this conceit de Filippo spins a wonderful play about theatrical illusion and obsessional delusion.
English translations and English supertitles have been provided students of Civica
Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori Altiero Spinelli - Milano as part of a tutored educational
program led by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY.
Rosario Sparno is a director and actor who lives and works in Naples.
He has adapted and directed classic works by Shakespeare, Moliére,
Lorca, De Filippo for Teatro Mercadante and Le Nuvole company.
Rosario works with Casa del Contemporaneo productions. He
performed in the feature “Il resto di niente” with Maria de Medeiros.
With his company Bottega Bombardini, he stages the works of
contemporary playwrights such as: D.F. Wallace, G. Clua, J.
Rushbrooke and P. Bezerra. He is also the author of children’s books
and CDs.
Antonella Romano lives and works in Naples. In 1993 she
approached the theater as an actress experimenting with different
languages, from street theater to classical theater, up to
contemporary. Among the most significant experiences are
Symbiosis with the Catalan company Fura del Baus, Filumena
Marturano with Isa Danieli directed by Cristina Pezzoli. In 2005
she was the winner of the Girulà Award for best young actress for
the show The heiress directed by Arturo Cirillo. The collaboration
with Rosario Sparno started in 2009 creating various installations
for works such as "The Tempest" by Shakespeare, Ria Rosa, The
Fish woman and working alongside him as assistant director in
"Napoli mon amour" and "Dream" by W. Shakespeare. During her
twenty-year career as an actress, Antonella has acquired
awareness and strength of bodily expression on stage and questioned herself more and more
intensely on the need to transcend the body, shape the subject and use the experience gained
to modulate the expression of the places he inhabits and in to which he pours his emotions in
the form of Sculptures. With a slow and laborious modulation of the gesture reiterated, almost
mantric weaves together kilometers of wire forging his creatures with his bare hands, taking
ownership of one's time and processes cognitions that accompany its flow in an attempt to
mend the fractures of the soul.
LUCA IERVOLINO holds a degree in Philosophy of Language with
110 cum laude and Academic Mention at the Federico II University of
Naples. He studied acting at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of
Dramatic Arts in Milan. He continues his training with artists such as
T. Ostermeier, A. Mnouchkine, J.C. Penchenat, V. Binasco, J.
Houbens. In 2010 he participated in the “Ecole des maitres” program
directed that year by M. Lenton. he has worked with P. Stein in “I
Demoni” (Ubu award for best show) and “Riccardo II” in 2017, with M.
Plini at the Stabile di Brescia, with Lia Chiappara and Luca Mazzone
at the Teatro Libero in Palermo, with Paola Zecca and Elisabetta
Pogliani for the Fionda Teatro of Milan, with Luca De Fusco at the
Teatro Stabile Mercadante of Naples. Since 2009 he has collaborated
with the Stabile di Napoli Mercadante and with the Stabile Le Nuvole
and Casa del Contemporaneo, playing leading roles in shows directed by Rosario Sparno and
F. Cocifoglia.
IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY
Started in 2013, the year of Italian Culture in the States, by Kairos Italy Theater, KIT Italia and
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in the US, In
Scena! presents – each year – a survey of the best Italian theater from Italy, in New York City.
The festival features full productions that have already toured in Italy as well as readings of
Italian plays in translation, lectures, and exchanges between Italian and International artists.
The goal is to promote greater awareness of Italian theater and Italian artists among New York
City theatergoers, and to build a bridge between the artistic scenes in Italy and the US. As of
today In Scena! Has brought Italian Theater to New York, Washington DC, Boston, Detroit, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Calgary and Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). Now, in its 11th
edition, the Festival arrives in Toronto while still traveling in the 5 NYC boroughs.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Avenue, Queens, United States
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