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a Caterina Casini and Alessandro Stella show

based upon ‘good soul from Sezuan’ by Bertolt Brecht

 

music by ANTONIO GIOIA

world premiere , Festival delle Nazioni commission

 

directed by Caterina Casini

scene Stefano Macaione

costumes Angela Nocentini

 

wirh Andrea Bianchi, Caterina Casini, Claudio Giglio, Anna Maria Loliva, Fabio Mangolini

with the partecipation of  Sara Bartolini, Tina Milanesi, Riccardo Ricci, students from Scuola Comunale di Teatro di Sansepolcro

 

Laurence Cocchiara violin

Catherine Bruni cello
Antonio Macaretti accordion

 

coproduction  Associazione culturale Laboratori Permanenti and Festival delle Nazioni 

in collaboration with Comune di Monterchi

 

The good soul of Sezuan is one of Bertolt Brecht’s masterpieces, written between 1938 and 1940, it was first staged in Zurich in 1943. It tells the story of Shen Te, a girl who is a prostitute for a living. One day she meets three gods with a mission to accomplish: finding out a a good soul to silence those who stubbornly maintain that there is no place in the world for good people.

The gods immediately recognize in Shen Te the good sould they are looking for, but the girl is not convinced, at the end she explains she is only a prostitute; the three gods decide to give them to grant her a sum of money to start a new life. Nut things will not turn out that easily. 

“It is the story of a ‘good soul’ awarded with a gift from the gods- as director Caterina Casini explains – the unexpected gift will not bring the expected results”