The Great Theater 2024- 2025

NOW IN ITS 38TH EDITION

The 2024-2025 edition of the Il Grande Teatro review, organized by the Municipality of Verona in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile di Verona, Centro di Produzione Teatrale, is full of suggestive proposals: on the programme, in fact, 48 performances from November until the end of March scheduled at New Theatre. The eight shows offer great Goldonian classics, 20th century authors, also on the contemporary drama front, played by much-loved actors.

From 19 to 24 November 2024
THE GREAT MAGIC
The comedy by Eduardo De Filippo features Natalino Balasso and Michele Di Mauro directed by Gabriele Russo. A complex text, just as complex is the obsessive feeling of the protagonist, Calogero Di Spelta, a man lost in a confused world, needing to cling to true certainties, which he symbolically locks up in a box, where he imagines his wife is also there to keep her under control. The play is clearly ahead of its time and the malaise of our time, it was not understood in 1948 when it was performed for the first time.

From 17 to 22 December 2024
THE LANDLADY
Produced by the Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria and directed by Antonio Latella, the show features Sonia Bergamasco in the role of Mirandolina, Marta Cortellazzo Wiel, Ludovico Fededegni, Giovanni Franzoni and Francesco Manetti. The known plot of this work by Carlo Goldoni sees Mirandolina, Fabrizio’s betrothed, cunningly juggling between two rich and noble suitors, between misunderstandings and deceptions, until the end of the intrigues with the wedding.

From 14 to 19 January 2025
THE GLASS ZOO
Absolute masterpiece of American drama by Tennessee Williams with Mariangela D’Abbraccio, Gabriele D’Anagni, Elisabetta Mirra and Pavel Zelinskiy, directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, produced by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto. It is the story of a family, especially Laura, limping due to an illness, who lives in a world of her own, made of glass animals and sad solitude.

From 28 January to 2 February 2025
HARLEQUIN?
Starring Andrea Pennacchi, written and directed by Marco Baliani with Marco Artusi, Maria Celeste Carobene, Miguel Gobbo Diaz, Margherita Mannino, Valerio Mazzucato, Anna Tringali, live music performed by Matteo and Riccardo Nicolin. The one proposed by Pennacchi is a Harlequin sui generis, compared to the traditional mask of commedia dell’arte: overweight, clumsy, unlikely, he doesn’t get one right. But in the jumble of lapses in style, a Harlequin emerges that brings together fragments of cabaret, burlesque and vaudeville.

From 11 to 16 February 2025
THE IRRESISTIBLE BOYS
By Neil Simon with Umberto Orsini, Franco Branciaroli, Flavio Francucci, Chiara Stoppa, Eros Pascale and Emanuela Saccardi, directed by Massimo Popolizio, Teatro de Gli Incamminati, Compagnia Orsini. The two protagonists of the comedy are two elderly variety actors, who have worked as a couple for their entire lives, giving life to a duo that has become famous.

From 11 to 16 March 2025
BOSTON MARRIAGE
By David Mamet, translated by Masolino D’Amico with Maria Paiato, Mariangela Granelli and Ludovica D’Auria, directed by Giorgio Sangati. The title alludes to the early 20th century practice of cohabitation between women. Between the two friends who meet after some time, the protagonist is the allusive, extravagant, paradoxical language, which playfully mocks the pompous prose of the time.

From 25 to 30 March 2025
MAGNIFICENT PRESENCE
After the success of Mine Vaganti, Ferzan Ozpetec returns to the theater with this new stage adaptation of one of his cinematographic successes. In this comedy between illusion and reality, dream and truth, love and cynicism, Serra Yilmaz, Tosca, D’Aquino, Erik Tonelli, Toni Fornari, Luciano Scarpa, Tina Agrippino, Sara Bosi and Fabio Zarretta will perform.

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