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Chie-Chan and I

CHIE-CHAN E IO

of Giorgio Amitrano

novel by Banana Yoshimoto

commission NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALY
with CATHERINE CARPIO, ALESSIA GIANGIULIANI, WILLIAM Menconi, FRANCESCA
PORRINI, CINZIA SPANO '
scenes GUIDO BUGANZA

production directed CARAMEL WINDINGS ITALY NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL, Mercadante Teatro Stabile of Naples, Teatro Eliseo

Theatrical adaptation of the new novel by Banana Yoshimoto, Chie-Chan and I tells the story of Kaori, a woman of forty years, and the deep relationship that binds her to her cousin Chie-Chan , five years younger. It's a special bond between the two women, as to make impossible a life outside of this core, an emotional dependence that undermines the free existence, free of ties, the Japanese woman in search of emancipation. Banana
resumes in this book, light and deep, some of his recurrent themes: loneliness, living with death and, above all, the family as the invention: the author opposed to biological family, a strong crisis in modern society, an unconventional family, within which, in this case, the men's pole is not. As always, Yoshimoto shows us characters who have no roots, orphans (one very strong scene in the novel is one where Chie-chan discovers the true circumstances of his birth and his mother's suicide) that attempt to overcome this trauma "building" another life, almost a fable, which helps to explain their reality, permitting them to enter adulthood.
Fashion and Italy, are two leitmotifs of the novel. Another obsession of contemporary Japan. Although not individually affected fashion style, the two women live in constant glamorous. Kaori works in a boutique luxury of her aunt, and is often forced to travel between Tokyo and Milan to buy clothes and while not cultivating interest in fashion has a strong aesthetic sense, notes and comments on the beauty of the clothes and the quality of fabrics. Most likely the reason the story is right here: the contrast between the public life of representation, the superficiality of the fashion circles, and the silent and peaceful behavior (the limit of autism) private life, made up of monotonous gestures, plates invariably cooked the same way and of a single song repeated.
The mystery of the secluded life of the two protagonist has the power to fill the need for affection in a more complete and satisfying than the family home or a man could do.

19 to 31 May 2009

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TIME SHOWS
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - 20.45 hours
Saturday at 16.30 and 20.45
Wednesday and Sunday - 17.00 hours Monday
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COST OF TICKETS
poltronissima 22 € - 16 €

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