Theatre in Lignano: 8th theatre season

We announce the start of the eighth edition of the theater season at Cinecity in Lignano Sabbiadoro! Through the magic and expressive power of THEATRE, the individual has the opportunity to grow internally, enhance their emotions and deepen their reflections. There is no better opportunity to immerse yourself in these unique and stimulating experiences than participating in this new season, which is increasingly establishing itself as a true "treasure chest of culture" for the community of Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Thanks to this theater festival, combined with the precious collaboration with the Ente Regionale Teatrale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, our location will have the opportunity to further enrich its cultural offering during the winter months. This event represents an important opportunity for all lovers of the performing arts and for those who wish to explore new horizons of thought through theater. Join us to experience moments of great intensity and reflection together, thus contributing to the growth of the cultural scene and theater in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Programming 2024/2025:

November 13, 2024

An Evening of Ordinary Irony
First appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "An Evening of Ordinary Irony", by and with Enrico Bertolino. Directed by Massimo Navone, live music by Tiziano Cannas Aghedu and Roberto Dibitonto.
Collaboration on the texts: Stefano Dongetti.
Inspired by the famous film with Michael Douglas, "A Day of Ordinary Madness", Bertolino offers us an hour of unmissable show, in which he paints a vivid picture of contemporary reality, which can be faced exclusively thanks to two precious tools: laughter and irony. In this extraordinary journey, he presents us with a gallery of characters, including men and women in their sixties, often divorced several times and never completely resolved with themselves, and a crowd of exemplary representatives of homo analogicus and homo digitalis, who patiently wait their turn at the post office. What emerges is an irresistible portrait of a generation that has not only “lost” its certainties, but has also most likely “lost” the very sense of its own identity.

December 13, 2024

WOW
Second appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "WOW", created by Francesco Tesei and Deniel Monti. Text and direction by Francesco Tesei.
Through a clever interweaving of stories and engaging Mentalism "experiments", the artist Tesei takes us on an exciting adventure that teaches us to recognize and value the nuances of everyday reality that enrich our existences. According to Tesei, wonder is not simply a moment of amazement, but is configured as an extraordinary opportunity to expand one's horizons, opening us up to new dimensions of thought and perception. It is a delicate balance, in which we navigate between what we know and what remains unknown, in a continuous oscillation between the loss and the rediscovery of ourselves.

January 17, 2025

Nothing as it seems
Third appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "Nothing as it seems". Direction and dramaturgy by Claudio de Maglio, Comedy songs by Marco Toller, masks by Stefano Perocco di Meduna, with the student-actors of the Nico Pepe Academy of Dramatic Art of Udine.
The New Comedy 2024 draws inspiration, as the consolidated tradition dictates, from historical events and real figures. The historical context is set during the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War, an era characterized by intense conflicts, political upheavals and continuous territorial rearrangements due to the various spheres of influence of the different States, Dukes and Princes. The setting of this story ranges from the area surrounding the Varese Lakes to Valtellina, where, about four centuries ago, a rebellion took place between the French, the Spanish and the Swiss Grisons. In this turbulent scenario, smuggling with Switzerland flourished, while ingenious plots were hatched by the powerful of the time and by mercenaries who often changed sides in the blink of an eye. Among the prominent figures in these extreme changes stands Jürg Jenatsch, still considered an icon of heroism in the Swiss canton of Grisons. This historical figure is mentioned in our Comedy together with other protagonists of the time, the result of our research, such as the intriguing figure of the "lake pirate".

February 5, 2025

Digressions and delights
Fourth appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "Digressions and delights" by John Gay with Daniele Pecci, translation and direction by Daniele Pecci, “the machinist”: Alessandro Sevi, costumes by Alessandro Lai, original music by Patrizio Maria D’Artista.
In our story, the protagonist is Wilde, in the last year of his existence, precisely in 1899. Released from prison and in exile in France, Wilde presents himself as an exhausted man, almost obese, sick and completely reduced to poverty. To try to make ends meet, he decides to rent small theaters, where he performs and offers himself to the Parisian public as a dark attraction, the “monster”, the “master of living scandal”. Her performances are configured as a sort of autobiographical self-exposure, interspersed with unexpected events and lively interactions with two assistants and stagehands of the theater. Despite a veil of deep melancholy and a biting sarcasm, the first part of the show flows between nostalgic memories, curious anecdotes and stories that often entertain the audience. The second part of the text, instead, draws forcefully from that painful and heartbreaking indictment that is the De Profundis: the fatal love for Lord Alfred Douglas, the dramatic trial, the prison experience, the last years of exile between France and Naples, the illness and the inevitable approach of death.

February 21, 2025

The Opera Locos
Fifth appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "The Opera Locos" conceived and directed by Yllana, artistic directors: David Ottone and Joe O’Curneen (Yllana), musical direction: Marc Álvarez and Manuel Coves, music recorded by the VERUM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Manuel Coves, choreography by Carlos Chamorro.
The Opera Locos is a comic opera presentation, in which five extraordinary opera singers offer the audience some of the most famous arias of the operatic repertoire, sometimes fused in a creative and original way with rock and pop classics. The Opera Locos aims to make opera accessible to the general public through a fresh and innovative approach, while maintaining high standards of artistic technique and discipline. The show integrates operatic numbers with elements of physical comedy, typical of the Yllana company, thus offering audiences of all ages a memorable and engaging experience.
This show won the Max Award in 2019 as Best Spanish Musical Show.

March 27, 2025

The Mental Inferiority of Women
Last appointment of the 8th theater season 2024/2054 at CineCity entitled "The Mental Inferiority of Women" freely inspired by the treatise The Mental Inferiority of Women by Paul Julius Moebius, by Giovanna Gra with Veronica Pivetti, directed by Gra & Mramor with Anselmo Luisi, soundtrack and musical arrangements: Alessandro Nidi, costumes by Nicolao Atelier Venezia, lights by Eva Bruno
Can a question about the fact that for centuries women have been perceived as physiologically inferior make us reflect? Our show is born from this provocative question and presents semi-unknown texts, some of which are among the most discriminatory, paradoxical and, despite themselves, hilarious, coming from rational writings of the last century. Veronica Pivetti, a modern incarnation of Mary Shelley, tells us, through bizarre scientific and medical theories, the true and horrifying Frankenstein of contemporary history: the figure of WOMAN. “What is the current state of relations between the sexes? An old adage comes to our aid: long hair, short brain.” This is how Paul Julius Moebius – assistant in the neurology section of the University of Leipzig – begins his brief but significant compendium "The Mental Inferiority of Woman", published in 1900, appropriately labeled as an evergreen of reactionary thought.