"The tales of Cunt"

"The tales of Cunto"
Eleonora Fuser

Elena Fuser, Michela Mocchiutti, actresses
Gerardo Balestrieri, music and voice
Giorgio De Marchi, masks and scenes
Giacomo Sega, costumes


The work Pentamerone the trattenemiento overo de 'peccerille Gian Alessio Abbattutis, playful pseudonym by Giambattista Basile (1566-1632 born in Giugliano in Campania, a young mercenary soldier to the service of the Serenissima Republic, the famous Piazza storytellers San Marco and Riva degli Schiavoni and immediate source of theatrical fairy tale of Gozzi) is the oldest, the richest and the most characteristic of all popular storybooks (Benedetto Croce), which appeared posthumously between 1634 and 1636 and It represents a fusion folk opera and fairytale plots that draw on older oral tradition.

The creative happiness, the taste of wonderful, magical and mysterious element use, meant that writers of fables, such as the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, Tieck, and indeed, the Venetian author Carlo Gozzi or more recently De Simone (which from these he drew inspiration for The Cat Cinderella) will draw from both hands.
The actress Eleonora Fuser, through a physical search and body based on the Commedia dell'Arte techniques and Eastern theater, has developed (using traditional masks and invention, created by Stefano Perocco), some of the stories contained in The Cunto de Cunti them, creating a play that sees the scene for over twenty years.
In the new version will be narrated some original fables of Cunto as The Three Crowns, The Three Cedars, The Bear and the frame story of Zoza princess who never laughed.
Tales in which, as in the poems of antiquity appears the figure dell'aedo, the actor-singer who through the simple suggestion of the words knows overturn reality, abolishing space and time and, using the myth and fantasy, to pop off via new characters like a beautiful fairy from a plant or turn a serpent into a wonderful prince, make you laugh and make you cry. It will therefore be a storytelling performance that will, through the word, evoking those imaginary worlds, give the opportunity to dream as before, listening to the teller, to love again the word narrated, break away from the TV screen and dream, like a time 'filò '.

The characters played by actresses Eleonora Fuser and Michela Mocchiutti in a sort of modern reciter, create illusions, visions pretend, embody dreams and at the same time, embodying the fascination of the theater, very effective machine for the dissemination of emotions, in order to shine and captivated the audience.
Accompanied by accordion and guitar voice low and almost recited Gerardo Balestrieri, stateless songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, artist tout court, whose music has the charm of the contamination, the encounter between cultures, atmospheres, faces and languages. Neapolitan songs of the tradition which he reinterpreted (like Nascette mmiezz or Sea of ​​De Simone) coated from Middle Eastern sounds.