I holiday among your stones and your
mists. I rest in Piazza
del Duomo. In place of the stars,
every evening, words light up.
Nothing offers respite from life better
than life.
(Umberto Saba)
In the city in which “nothing offers respite from life better than life”, even the summer is more than just a simple break between one act and the next, a wait for the city to come back to life in the autumn, to pick up speed again with its daily frenzy, the coming and going in the streets, the lights of the theatres that come back on... much more. The curtain doesn’t come down in Milan during the summer; if anything, the city reclaims its bella stagione both on and off stage. It is on an articulated and wide-ranging programme, a true embracing of the city and its many identities, that Estate fuori scena is based.
The aim of the Piccolo with this initiative is to animate the weeks for those living in Milan between July and September with a multicentric and varied programme of different places, experiences and projects. Estate al Castello, Sguardi (d’) Insieme, Immersioni - laboratorio di linguaggi performativi nei quartieri. A rich programme of events, shows and workshop activities - created in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan as part of Milano è Viva - that spreads through the districts, harmonising the voice of the Piccolo with that of the various figures within the city: Atir, Biblioteca Gallaratese, Casa della Carità, COMIN, mare culturale urbano, Il Razzismo è una Brutta Storia…
Estate fuori scena expresses two desires; to expand its view beyond the conventional theatrical space, in the conviction that the theatre is not only a place within the city but above all an expression of sharing; and to experiment through that intimate and urban form of holiday imagined in the words of Saba, “vital regeneration”. A confirmation that all the rest and escape that we seek during the summer also lies in encounters with others, in that form of existing together, side by side, which forms the foundation of the theatrical experience.
Estate al Castello
La Caduta di Troia
Tuesday 2 August, 9 PM | Castello Sforzesco, Cortile delle Armi
From book two of the Aeneid, which speaks of the violence of the war and the flight to sea, comes La Caduta di Troia: a veritable “score” that renders this work an opera, where the voice of Massimo Popolizio gains form and body.
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Storie
Wednesday 3 August, 9 PM | Castello Sforzesco, Cortile delle Armi
In his “live storytelling workshop”, Stefano Massini, accompanied by the jazz improvisation of Paolo Jannacci and Daniele Moretto, uses the evocative power of words to tell many small yet important hidden stories.
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Sguardi (d’) Insieme
L’abisso
Sunday 17 July, 7.30 PM | Chiesa di S. Maria alla Fonte – Parco Chiesa Rossa
A pressing, profound and topical story that examines the contemporary tragedy of the landings on the coasts of the Mediterranean. Enia stages an epic poem of everyday heroes, a metaphor for an individual and collective tragedy.
Quando sarò capace di amare
Tuesday 19 July, 8.30 PM | ARIA - Ex Macello
Stefano Massini offers this very personal and authoritative tribute to Giorgio Gaber with the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo.
L’abisso
Monday 5 September, 8.30 PM | mare culturale urbano – Cascina Torrette
A pressing, profound and topical story that examines the contemporary tragedy of the landings on the coasts of the Mediterranean. Enia stages an epic poem of everyday heroes, a metaphor for an individual and collective tragedy.
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Fuggi la terra e l’onde
Saturday 10 September, 8.30 PM | Casa della Carità
Fuggi la terra e l’onde by Lino Guanciale is a summary demonstration of how in challenging the sea, following a complex yet deep-set path, the search for salvation, for knowledge and for happiness come together.
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Talk Show
Sunday 25 September, 8.30 PM | Ex Convitto, Parco Trotter
The theatrical research group Sotterraneo involves women of national importance in a discussion on inclusive, gender equality, social transformation and the larger sense of the relationship between urban centres and suburbs. Guest Vera Gheno
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Talk Show
Monday 26 September, 8.30 PM | ARIA - Ex Macello
The theatrical research group Sotterraneo involves women of national importance in a discussion on inclusive, gender equality, social transformation and the larger sense of the relationship between urban centres and suburbs. Guest Silvia Bencivelli
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