IL BAR SOTTO IL MARE

Venue: Teatro Sociale - Omegna. Address: Teatro Sociale, Via Giosuè Carducci 2, 28887 Omegna (VB). Organizer: Il Contato del Canavese by Stefano Benni with Antonio Ornano and Gaia Elsa Rossi sets and costumes Guido Fiorato direction by Giorgio Gallione production Agidi in collaboration with Epoché ArtEventi There is a bar hidden in the depths of the sea, a place outside time where stories surface like bubbles: ironic, moving, visionary. It is from this imaginative space that Il bar sotto il mare comes to life, one of Stefano Benni’s most beloved books, a mosaic of tales that blend satire, poetry, surreal comedy and sudden bursts of humanity. The show stages a selection of stories and characters that populate Benni’s universe: grotesque and very tender creatures, brilliantly sharp monologues, paradoxical situations that, beneath the smile, reveal a lucid and ruthless observation of our present. A world where laughter becomes a critical tool and fantasy a form of resistance. Antonio Ornano, an interpreter of extraordinary comic and narrative versatility, will give body and voice to this kaleidoscope of humanity, moving between explosive comedy, moments of sof