Giorgio Strehler - L'umanità del teatro

Theatre, for the very fact that it is theatre, even in the preparatory phase, is always and only an act of love, an entirely “human” act. Giorgio Strehler

The Piccolo Teatro is paying tribute to Giorgio Strehler on the twentieth anniversary of his death, which took place at his home in Lugano on 24 December 1997, with two months of shows, events, screenings and exhibitions.

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Strehler and… Chekhov, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goldoni

Chekhov, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goldoni: writers who have accompanied my journey as a director for all of these years. Each of these writers is the sign of a certain coherence. I have dedicated my time and my efforts to them. They are like a kind of continuous bass which plays throughout a great theatrical work, and from which various melodic lines diverge and emerge, while remaining forever tied to a secret common thread. Giorgio Strehler
The evenings are coordinated by Stefano de Luca and Enzo Mologni

Teatro Studio Melato, 24 November 2017, 6 p.m.
Strehler/Chekhov
conducted by Fausto Malcovati
with the participation of Lev Dodin and Carlo Tognoli
video accounts by Valentina Cortese, Monica Guerritore and Jack Lang
readings by graduate actors from the Piccolo’s “Luca Ronconi” School of Theatre Yasmin Karam and Marco Risiglione
music by Fiorenzo Carpi played by the students of the “Giuseppe Verdi” conservatory, Milan, Umberto Ruboni (pianoforte), Cristiana Franco (violin), Valentina Cangero (cello), Dea Škorić (mandolin), Paolo Camporesi (accordion)
musical director Cesare Della Sciucca, musical coordination by professor Roberto Tarenzi
A number of protagonists from Strehler's directing history - with Lev Dodin, a maestro of Russian Theatre, for who Chekhov is a focal point - reconstruct Strehler's relationship with Czech poetry. It is a moving journey in which Strehler developed an extraordinary harmony with the scenographer and costume designer Luciano Damiani. Jack Lang and Carlo Tognoli evoke the grand utopia created by the Teatro d’Europa, from conception to realisation.
Free admission, places subject to availability.

Teatro Studio Melato, 4 December 2017 6 p.m.
Strehler/Shakespeare
coordinated by Maurizio Porro
with Georges Banu, Massimo Foschi, Ezio Frigerio, Gabriele Lavia, Maurizio Nichetti
video accounts by Peter Brook, Franco Graziosi, Giulia Lazzarini, Ivana Monti, Giuseppe Pambieri, Ottavia Piccolo
readings by graduate actors from the Piccolo’s “Luca Ronconi” School of Theatre Yasmin Karam and Marco Risiglione
music by Fiorenzo Carpi played by the students of the “Giuseppe Verdi” conservatory, Milan Umberto Ruboni (pianoforte), Alessandro Schiattone (flute)
musical director Cesare Della Sciucca, musical coordination by professor Roberto Tarenzi
Thirteen productions which “invented the man”. A relationship which lasted over the years and which gave life to masterpieces of poetry, shows which have become part of the history of all of us and of universal theatre. Accounts are given, both live and through video, by the actors from those plays, with the participation of Georges Banu, one of the most important theatrical scholars of contemporary France.
Free admission, places subject to availability. For online reservations click here

Teatro Studio Melato, 10 December 2017 6 p.m.
Strehler/Brecht
coordinated by Alberto Bentoglio
with the participation of Michel Bataillon, Umberto Ceriani, Gianfranco de Bosio, Andrea Jonasson, Glauco Mauri
video accounts by Rosalina Neri, Massimo Ranieri, Paolo Rossi, Luisa Spinatelli and Milva
readings by graduate actors from the Piccolo’s “Luca Ronconi” School of Theatre Yasmin Karam and Marco Risiglione
musical coordination by Marco Mojana
Credit goes to Strehler, as well as to Paolo Grassi, for the “discovery “in 1956 of Brecht in Italy, a writer which the director studied over forty years and through numerous productions. The subject is discussed by the artists who accompanied them in this theatrical and cultural adventure. With an elaboration by Michel Bataillon, playwright at the TNP of Villeurbanne, the Piccolo’s French companion in the search for an Art Theatre for All.
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Teatro Studio Melato, 20 December 2017 6 p.m.
Strehler/Goldoni
coordinated by Stefano de Luca and Maria Grazia Gregori
with the participation of Gian Carlo Dettori, Giulia Lazzarini, Ferruccio Soleri, Franca Squarciapino, Myriam Tanant, Pamela Villoresi and Stella Casiraghi
video accounts by Franco Graziosi, Laura Marinoni, Paola Piizzi Sartori, Sarah Sartori
music by Fiorenzo Carpi played by the students of the “Giuseppe Verdi” conservatory, Milan
musical director Cesare Della Sciucca, musical coordination by professor Roberto Tarenzi
An alter-ego for a lifetime, Goldoni is the writer that Strehler re-discovered and returned to Italian theatre. With Mémoires, an important project which remained unfinished, the aim of the director was to present his theatre and life. Myriam Tanant, playwright and professor at the Sorbonne, assistant to Strehler in Paris, relives the passion for theatre which the director and Goldoni had in common.
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Films of the plays at the Chiostro Nina Vinchi

Eleven titles to summarise fifty years of masterpieces directed by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro, Milan: an artistic and human journey - but also, at the same time, the history of Italy and Europe echoes on the stage - to experience through the review presented at the Chiostro Nina Vinchi.
Free admission, places subject to availability.

23 November 2017, 3 p.m.
Arlecchino servitore di due padroni (Harlequin, servant to two masters)
by Carlo Goldoni
television recording 1955 – duration 2h 05’
With Marcello Moretti, this is the second of the ten editions of Harlequin.
Strehler himself introduces the show.

24 November 2017, 3 p.m.
Le baruffe chiozzotte (Brawling in Chioggia)
by Carlo Goldoni
1964, television recording in1966 - duration 2h15’
Volonghi, Gravina, Piccolo, Scotti, Pani, Brogi, Mauri... an extraordinary play, beginning with the cast.

27 November 2017, 3 p.m.
Il giardino dei ciliegi (The Cherry Orchard)
by Anton Chekhov
1974, television recording 1976 - duration 2h 45’
With Valentina Cortese in the role of Ljuba, a work of direction which is an unforgettable page in the history of theatre.

28 November 2017, 3 p.m.
La storia della bambola abbandonata
by Strehler/Brecht/Sastre
1976, television recording 1977 - duration 1h14’
A successful experiment of theatre made with children - led by Gianfranco Mauri and Narcisa Bonati - for children.

30 November 2017, 3 p.m.
La tempesta (The Tempest)
by William Shakespeare
1978, television recording 1979 - duration 2h 45’
Giulia Lazzarini and Tino Carraro are the protagonists of a play that is well-loved and well-known world-wide.

4 December 2017, 3 p.m.
Temporale (The Storm)
by August Strindberg
1980, television recording 1981 - duration 1h 57’
With the innovative sets by Ezio Frigerio and the disturbing music of Fiorenzo Carpi, an example of completely contemporary directing.

5 December 2017, 3 p.m.
Elvira o la passione teatrale
by Brigitte Jaques, based on Jouvet
1986, television recording 1987 - duration 2h 11’
An act of love for the theatre in which Strehler himself performs alongside Giulia Lazzarini.

11 December 2017, 3 p.m.
I giganti della montagna (The Mountain Giants)
by Luigi Pirandello
1994, television recording 1994 - duration 2h 6’
Having returned to this work by Pirandello on various occasions, Strehler chose Andrea Jonasson for the third edition.

12 December 2017, 3 p.m.
L’isola degli schiavi (Slave island)
by Marivaux
1994, television recording1995 - duration 2h
A dive into the 18th century, and the Enlightenment utopia of a world based on harmony and brotherhood.

13 December 2017, 3 p.m.
Strehler reads ‘‘I Mémoires’’ by Carlo Goldoni
1992, video recording 1992 - duration 2h 11’
The grand project left incomplete, the summing up of a lifetime relationship with his favourite playwright.

16 December 2017, 10 a.m. part one; 3 p.m. parts two and three
Strehler reads ‘‘Life of Galileo’’
1995, video recording 1995 - overall length 6h 41’
Thirty years on from a production that made history, Strehler returns in first person to read the work by Brecht.

Palazzo Reale, special screening

24 December 2017, from 6 p.m.
Twenty years on from the death of Giorgio Strehler, on Christmas night, 1997, the Piccolo and the City of Milan remember the director with a screening on the façade of Palazzo Reale of the film
Strehler reads ‘‘I Mémoires’’ by Carlo Goldoni
The recording of a reading of the script which the director adapted from Goldoni’s autobiography and from which he planned to stage a play, announced for Spring 1998 but never completed.

Ornella Vanoni in concert

Teatro Strehler, 28 October 2017 7.30 p.m.
Sono nata qui
created by Ornella Vanoni
sound engineer Luciano Graffi, light design Claudio De Pace
with Roberto Cipelli (pianoforte), Bebo Ferra (guitar), Loris Leo Lari (double bass), Piero Salvatori (cello)
coordination and personal assistant to the artist Nadia Orecchio
production Bubba Music srl, in collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa
Ornella Vanoni returns to the Piccolo Teatro to sing stories of an underworld which no longer exists. A repertoire which comes back to life, in the year of the seventieth anniversary, thanks to an extraordinary singer.

Exhibitions and other events

Teatro Strehler, from 23 November 2017
from monday to saturday h 3 p.m.-6.45 p.m. free entrance
(closed 24, 25, 26, 31 December 2017; 1, 6, 7 January 2018)
Exhibition – Giorgio Strehler. The humanity of theatre
Fifty years of shows at the Piccolo
In the foyer of the theatre which now bears his name, an itinerary leads the public to (re)discover the great artist and founder of the Piccolo. Posters, photographs and costumes serves as a multitude of “fragments of a theatrical discourse” to tell of the man who “lived everything through the theatre”.
The exhibition is completed and integrated by a multimedia video installation, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, at the RovelloDue – Piccolo Spazio Politecnico.

Teatro Strehler, 23 November 2017 6.30 p.m.
New illumination for the Teatro Strehler
Inauguration of the new external illumination which will, finally, present once again the volumes of the original design of a theatre concieved as a factory. From a project donated to the Piccolo by the Studio Castagna Ravelli, made possible with the contribution of iGuzzini.

Teatro Grassi, 18 December 2017, 7.30 p.m.
Strehler, il mago dei prodigi
written and directed by Maurizio Porro
An RSI Swiss Radiotelevisione and Music and Partners production - duration 52’
Created and directed by the critic Maurizio Porro, the documentary presents and explores the life and the career of the great Maestro, with the help of interviews with international artists, including Riccardo Muti, Peter Brook, Andrea Jonasson, Ariane Mnouchkine, and Jack Lang.

Teatro Studio Melato, 21 December 2017 7.30 p.m.
MAESTRO! Memorie di un guitto
written, directed and performed by Stefano de Luca
lighting Claudio De Pace, director’s assistant Linda Riccardi
An ATIR production in collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano
A theatrical monologue in which the actor and director tells of his relationship with Strehler. Stefano de Luca brings to the stage memories and anecdotes from ten years spent alongside his Maestro, the man who taught him to give his entire self to theatre.
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