Laura Morante ed Eugenia Costantini. Il ballo

Place: Teatro Civico Garybaldi. Address: Via dei Partigiani 4 Taken from the homonymous novel by Irène Némirovsky, Il ballo is a musical reading that stages a story of family rivalry, ambition, and the desire for redemption. Laura Morante plays Rosine Kampf, a mother obsessed with social ascent, while Eugenia Costantini wears the role of her daughter Antoinette, a teenager wounded by humiliation and eager for redemption. Mother and daughter also in real life, the two actresses give voice to an intense confrontation that lays bare the fragilities and conflicts of the relationship between the two characters. The Kamps, who have recently become a wealthy family, organize a sumptuous reception with the aim of obtaining recognition from Parisian high society. Antoinette, excluded from the party by her mother’s wish, turns her pain into a silent revenge: instead of sending the invitations to the guests, she throws them into the Seine. On the night of the ball, no one shows up. With an essential and cutting style, Némirovsky builds an ironic and merciless portrait of the French bourgeoisie, telling a family drama in which love, resentment, and vanity intertwine until an epil