'Far West': the spectacle of Yllana, parody of the western
Il Fatto Quotidiano
Tommaso Chimenti
Theater Critic
December 10, 2014
If you want to see in and around Florence something
international, waiting for Fabbrica Europa, you must attend the Theatre of
Rifredi. Each year, the two directors, organizational Giancarlo Mordini and
artistic Angelo Savelli, uncover in their summer tours, especially Avignon,
comprehensive shows for all ages. So we could see here Paolo Nani, Italian but
for decades working in Denmark, as the mime Australian Nola Rae with her
Mozart, Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth, the Familie Floz that Rifredi has given
us many years ago, the duo Romanian-French Duel a sort of miniature Banda
Osiris, the Black Theatre of Prague, the magician of the bubbles Catalan Pep
Bou, Israelis Orto-Da Theatre, the big attraction and closeness Art Turkey
Serra Yilmaz.
Among these was the Yllana (to read their piece:
www.yllana.com ), company of Madrid who did their blossoming Splash here, the
world of the sea and the ocean, the Zoo safari and the dangers of the jungle,
Muu, a group of bullfighters on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This year
they have resurfaced with a parody of all the westerns that you have seen, Far
West where the imaginary dusty colt and Winchester, ranchers and rations, sweat
of horses ridden bareback and great prairies to ride, he was respected and
this, of course, in a light key and brilliant. Here the spaghetti westerns of
Sergio Leone, here's Django tomato sauce of Quentin Tarantino and Bud Spencer
and Terence Hill, Clint Eastwood and the saloon, the spurs and whiskey,
sheriffs and gringos.
The story is simple: a happy couple (they look like the
lovebirds of Rocky Horror) are pursued and attacked by two thugs who are very
awkward and clumsy. The woman is kidnapped and our antihero begins hunting for
the beautiful damsel. The tale is small and slim halfway between Woody Allen
and Austin Powers, with a touch of Renato Rascel and moves that remind us of
Antonio Albanian which run jerky as the Mario Bros. video game. References
dream Cid or Don Quixote as to ' Orlando Furioso, but also to the Little House
on the Prairie, while the blonde named Jenny like the Pirates from 'Three Penny
Opera Brecht or more tricolor Jenny is mad sung by a Vasco first manner.
Air Humorous and Benny Hill as well as the vultures perch
echo Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo until the Indians whose chieftain brings us
memories of Freddy Mercury and the Village People with a bit of Arrapaho and
Squallor. There we can see inside Jessie James but also Blood with Daniel Day
Lewis to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner impregnable although slimey
gunslingers and frontier, at least in the theater, it remains unattainable
Western Massimo Schuster.
However, we are also close to the International Day
Against Violence Against Women (November 25) and the girl is seen, and is
socially accepted that it is, as always an object to be shared and quarreled
over, they are cowboys, ugly birds and birds or Indians. The woman is Elena
from the dispute, war booty from stealing prey from subtracting brought to the den
of the enemy. Perhaps also laughing, and normalizing this view, considering not
just the right but at least the conventional and established, that some posts,
especially for boys, pass under the skin, come to the bowels. A woman to travel
here, in fiction colorful and soft of a stage, you can defend but in the
uncomfortable reality (the Nigerian girls abducted by the caliphate and convert
dates and brides to the guerrillas, in Italy a woman killed every two days, in
India a rape every 22 minutes, for example) succumbs to the strength or,
perhaps even worse, indifference.
A perennial long tour, even with different cast, will
lead them to the piece Pagagnini, parody universe of classical music, in the
coming months from Taiwan to France, from Locarno to Assisi, and will be
strictly in Spain with the new Gagfather, between gangsters , organized crime,
mafia, picciotti, Pizzini and Cosa Nostra.
Theatre of Rifredi,
Florence
