The summer programming of the Teatro Capovolto in Piazza Cesare Battisti continues on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 with "Open Mic Farm", a show from "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, written and directed by Gianluca Auriemma, and winner of the XXIII edition of Fantasio – Festival of Theatre Direction.
Two cunning pigs expose their electoral programs, in the struggle for power to conquer the Animal Farm, through the innovative language of Stand Up Comedy.
It is an election period within the manor farm, now known to all as Animal Farm. Pigs, having become more intelligent than other animals, compete for preferences through public prayers, disguised as benefactors but with a belly full of theft and lies. And it is precisely here that Napoleon and Palladine's evil plan is consummated: a fabric made of lust for power, stained with milk and blood, which hides the true face of pigs from the farm. Two faces that animals can no longer distinguish from the owner's.
"There is Orwell's fable, contaminated by the raw and direct language of Stand Up Comedy that allows me to touch more ruthlessly on some social issues in the public prayers of pigs. – explains director Gianluca Auriemma - There are three enviable actors who play all the characters of the farm, a team of collaborators who have been following me, with confidence, for years that allows me to venture. There is the earth, from which animals are born, there are microphones that descend from above as in a composition by Thomas Ostermeier. There is the contamination of multiple visual languages that breaks the fourth wall and asks the viewers for answers. In this way, I wanted to show the two faces of those who rule; who steal milk from common reserves at night and speak openly to the people by day with great language properties, like Brutus to the Romans with his hands still soiled with Caesar's blood. Two faces that, the animals of the farm, can no longer distinguish from that of the owner. "
