The new season of Teatro della Pergola
Built in 1695, by the will of the Accademia degli Immobili, under the auspices of the Cardinal Giovan Carlo de’ Medici, Pergola Theater has known in the last few years one of the most tempestuous and relevant seasons of its long history. Recently united with the Pontedera Theater Foundation under the name of Teatro della Toscana and with the meaningful recent recognition of National Theater, Pergola is one of the most important theaters in Italy today. The most remarkable novelty of this season is the interest taken in training projects, articulated through the “Orazio Costa” Training Program for Actors – biennial school that cultivates and deepens the legacy of Orazio Costa, one of the first pedagogues-directors who worked and lived his last years at Pergola – and Oltrarno, ambitious acting graduate school run by Pierfrancesco Favino with a triennial cycle, full time and totally free.



The most remarkable novelty of this season is the interest taken in training projects, articulated through the “Orazio Costa” Training Program for Actors – biennial school that cultivates and deepens the legacy of Orazio Costa, one of the first pedagogues-directors who worked and lived his last years at Pergola – and Oltrarno, ambitious acting graduate school run by Pierfrancesco Favino with a triennial cycle, full time and totally free. The 2015/2016 program’s offer is a rich one, with twenty four performances that host from traditional theater to classics reinterpreted in a modern tone by young protagonists of today and stage names who recall to the great audience. At the inauguration of Vita di Galileo by Brecht, signed by Gabriele Lavia – a faithful edition of the original edition with twenty five actors interpreting eighty characters – follows the Goldoni Bottega del caffè by Maurizio Scaparro; Luca De Filippo returns with Non ti pago by father Eduardo, while Umberto Orsini proposes Il prezzo, a piece little frequented by Arthur Miller, directed by Massimo Popolizio. Among the most loved by the wide public artists, we mention Luca Zingaretti who is confronted with the double role of actor and director in The Pride, a brilliant text by the American Alexi Kaye Campbell with a heterosexual and homosexual love theme; Alessio Boni brings to the scene I duellanti by Conrad, while Filippo Timi interprets all the male characters in Casa di bambola by Ibsen, performance directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah. One of the highlights of the season is La Controra: following the dramatic musical line experimented with Servo per due, Pierfrancesco Favino and Paolo Sassanelli bring into play Le tre sorelle by Cechov in a South Italy of the 50s. Finally we announce the first edition of an international festival dedicated to contemporary dance in collaboration with the production Center for body language and dance, directed by Virgilio Sieni, who will propose a series of rich multidisciplinary events at Pergola and Cango, spanning over three years.





