Gadda Goes to War – Traverse Theatre
Edinburgh Gadda Prize Event 3
British premiere of award-winning show
Ubu Prize Winner for Best Actor and Best Show of the Year
- L’ingegner Gadda va alla guerra
o della tragica istoria di Amleto Pirobutirro
- By Fabrizio Gifuni – based on texts by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Director: Giuseppe Bertolucci - When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, or rather to this day?
- A hugely contemporary play based on texts by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Fabrizio Gifuni’s L’ingegner Gadda va alla guerra has taken Italy by storm.
| “This monologue is our mirror” – Repubblica | |
| “Adrenaline-filled show. Weren’t we asking for theatre one cannot do without?” – Corriere della Sera |
Friday 21 and Saturday 22 September, 7.30pm – Traverse 1
Pre-show, 6.45pm – Traverse 2
Friday only, Post-show Discussion – T1, 8.45pm
Saturday only, as part of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize
6.30pm Junior installation (Traverse Foyer & Bar)
6.45pm Pre-show (T2)
7.30pm Show (T1)
9.00pm Prize Ceremony (T1)
Italian with English surtitles
55mins running time
Tickets £10 / £6
PRE- AND POST-SHOWs
Pre-show (both nights) – Introducing Gadda Goes to War by Federica Pedriali, in collaboration with theatre director Laura Pasetti, Piccolo Teatro Milan – with Federica Gelosa, Lucia Marinsalta and Francesca Tripaldi (Piccolo Teatro).
Post-show Discussion (Friday only) – with Ann Marie Di Mambro, Fabrizio Gifuni, Nicola McCartney, Laura Pasetti and Federica G. Pedriali.
Junior Installation (Saturday only) – Hybridity is an ad-lib pre-show foyer-event taking its cue from Pirandello’s Tonight We Improvise and mixing junior entries with extracts from works by Gadda in homage to the hybridity of contemporary art forms. Developed and directed by Laura Pasetti, on an idea by Federica Pedriali, with multimedia installations mounted by Evan Thomas (Stills Gallery).
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