21:00h // LA GIOIA (ITALY)

Date: 24.07.2024

Time: 21:00h

Location: Kino Lumbardhi

Production of Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT – Teatro Nazionale (Italy)

Co-production of Théâtre de Liège (Belgium), Le Manège Maubeuge – Scène Nationale (France)

Co-organizers of the tour in Prizren: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tirana e Ambasciata d’Italia a Pristina

Conceived and directed by: Pippo Delbono with Compagnia Pippo Delbono: Dolly Albertin, Gianluca Ballarè, Margherita Clemente, Pippo Delbono, Ilaria Distante, Mario Intruglio, Nelson Lariccia, Gianni Parenti, Pepe Robledo, Grazia Spinella and with Bobò’s voice; Floreal composition: Thierry Boutemy; Music: Pippo Delbono, Antoine Bataille, Nicola Toscano and Various Artists; Light designer: Orlando Bolognesi;Costumes Elena Giampaoli;Production Manager during the creative process: Alessandra Vinanti; Organization during the creative process: Silvia Cassanelli;Organization Davide Martini;Production assistant: Riccardo Porfido;Technical Manager:Fabio Sajiz;Tour Technical Staff: Orlando Bolognesi (lights), Pietro Tirella (sound), Enrico Zucchelli (set), Monica Bosso (costumes);Special thanks: Enrico Bagnoli, Jean Michel Ribes, Thierry Boutemy’s assistant Alessia Guidoboni, Théâtre de Liège for the costumes.

About the show:

A theatre production about the most beautiful and mysterious feeling, is the result of a unique circumstance and of a travel among the most extreme emotions such as anguish, pain, happiness, enthusiasm. A vortex of sounds, images, movements, dances fuse together in the magic of circus, clown colours and the melancholia of tango, in a kaleidoscopic pinwheel of masks, intimate stories, moods in the form of an essential story told as a flowing journey.

This work by Pippo Delbono becomes a new journey towards “joy” which keeps on with his extraordinary group of performers with a renewed mood concerning the void left by Bobò passing by. Bobò has been Delbono’s faithful stage companion since they met in 1995 in the psychiatric hospital in Aversa (Naples, Italy). He has been Delbono’s main performer for over twenty years as well as the poetic icon of Delbono’s art in all the theatre, opera, film works they did together. Bobò will be still a strong presence/absence in and out of the stage in this journey toward a “joy’s hymn”.

Delbono’s actors go up on stage, one by one. Taking the audience by hand, each in his way, they make of each one a travel companion, a part of this endless search. Personal stories, masks, clowneries, memories, all fleeting images of people (humans) reaching for joy. Each night, ready for surprise, to the rhythm of this company, on the path of this never-ending quest for joy.