Gleijeses: “At the Quirino season at the top of the standings in Rome between classics and innovation”

“It is a season of innovation and tradition, which does not mean the cult of ashes but the custody of fire, as well as folk art, combining quality and quantity; and which wants to impose Quirino as the first prose theater in Rome , also taking into account the vicissitudes of Argentina and the uncertainties of the Elysée. And we have chosen a ‘Dante’ slogan or ‘we went out to see the stars’ which is a good omen after the forced closure due to the Covid pandemic; ‘Hell is over, may Purgatory be brief and may we be able to go to Heaven as soon as possible! “. Geppy Gleijeses president and with Guglielmo Ferro artistic director of the Quirino theater in Rome thus describes the new season at AdnKronos, with a rich program that is divided into a ‘prologue’ from 24 September to 31 October with “a set of events, all of high quality “, Gleijeses is keen to specify, waiting for the official season which will start on November 2 and close on May 15, 2022. The Quirino curtain will open with a prologue, starting with ‘An ordinary day of the dancer Gregorio Samsa’ from ‘ Kafka’s Metamorphosis, protagonists and directors Lorenzo Gleijeses and Eugenio Barba, “the greatest contemporary experimenter”, underlines the artistic director of Quirino. The ‘official’ season will start with Gabriele Lavia director and actor in ‘The laws of gravity’ from the novel by Jean Teulé, to continue with Giuseppe Cederna and Vanessa Gravina in Molière’s ‘Tartufo’; Carlo Buccirosso with his ‘Colpo di scena’; the operetta ‘The Merry Widow’ by Franz Lehar; Emilio Solfrizzi in Molière’s ‘Imaginary Sick’ directed by Guglielmo Ferro; Enrico Guarneri in ‘The Inspector General’ by Gogol and then for ‘I Malavoglia’ by Verga; Elisabetta Pozzi in Euripides’ ‘Trojan women’; Pippo Pattavina and Marianella Bargilli in Pirandello’s ‘One, no one and one hundred thousand’; Mariangela D’Abbraccio and Daniele Pecci for ‘A tram called desire’ by Tennessee Williams. And again: Geppy Gleijeses with Maurizio Micheli and Lucia Poli conducted by Guglielmo Ferro in ‘Servo di scena’ by Ronald Harwood; Alessandro Haber in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’; Paola Quattrini with ‘If you tell a lie dilla grossa’ by Ray Cooney with the original direction of Pietro Garinei; Leo Gullotta in ‘Bartleby the scribe’ inspired by the story of Melville; Marco Paolini in his ‘Ulysses filò’; Paolo Bonacelli and Marilù Prati for the ‘Trial to Jesus’ directed by Geppy Gleijeses; Mario Incudine with ‘Mimì from South to South: on the notes of Domenico Modugno’ directed by Moni Ovadia; Pino Quartullo and Debora Caprioglio in ‘Buoni da Die’ directed by Emilio Solfrizzi. “Quantity and quality”, as prescribed by the artistic director of Quirino, Geppy Gleijeses. (By Enzo Bonaiuto)