Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno is a show of the theatre company Fanny and Alexander based on the novel by Lewis Carroll, traslated into Italian from Chiara Lagani. The performance, directed by Luigi De Angelis will be presented at the Città delle Cento Scale Festival the evening of Wednesday, October 12 th.
Fanny & Alexander presents a double story - suspended between dream and reality - that develops in parallel: a collapsing world in which the force of beauty and love breaks out.
In Sylvie and Bruno, like in a contemporary tale, there are, on one side, political crisis, deadly epidemics and a tragic sense of the end; on the other side, the creative power of dreams and the living power of imagination.
The co-founder of the theatre company Fanny & Alexander addresses issues related both to the the translation of the novel by Lewis Carroll and to the dramaturgy of the theatrical show, creating an interweaving of threads.
Chiara Lagani, in the triple role of translator, dramaturgnd a actress, gives the opportunity to meet the less known and most misterious novel by Lewis Carroll, author of the famous "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there".
Chiara Lagani – actress, dramaturg and translator – writes the original scripts of the Fanny & Alexander's shows. Among the many projects of the theatre company she founded in Ravenna in 1992 with the director Luigi De Angelis there are the series of performances based on Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada or Ardor", the ones based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" books, and the show based on "My brilliant friend" by Elena Ferrante. In 2017 she won the Riccione TTV Special Prize for the Dramaturgical Innovation. She co-wrote with Elio Germano the theatrical show "La mia battaglia" (Einaudi 2021). She edited and translated "The Wizard of Oz book" by L. Frank Baum's (Einaudi, 2017, “I Millenni”), illustrated by Mara Cerri. She edited the script of the graphic novel – with drawings of Mara Cerri – "My brilliant friend" by Elena Ferrante (Coconino Press / Fandango, 2022).
