Titizé - A Venetian Dream.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 18.00 | Sala Musica – Teatro Donizetti

About TITIZE’ – A VENETIAN DREAM
Meeting with the compagnia Finzi Pasca

Coordinates the meeting Maria Grazia Panigada

Faithful to the language of dreams that returns evanescent images, allusions and mirages, TITIZÉ è is a show that leads the spectator into a rarefied and surreal universe. Its narration, apparently fragmented but profoundly allusive, develops in a kaleidoscopic game that interweaves different planes of meaning, evoking a hyperbolic “grammelot”.
“TITIZÉ”, “you are”: an emblematic word full of rhythm, which with its evocative sonority draws attention to the power of the verb “to be”, emphasising the universal nature of an experience imagined to intimately involve a heterogeneous audience of all ages.
The show blends tradition and innovation in a fascinating combination of clowning, body language and acrobatics – that allow to allude, create metaphors, amplify emotions – and the use of innovative stage machinery, giving life to a theatre of amazement and lightness, without having to resort to words.
With a cast of ten talented performers, including acrobats, actors and musicians, TITIZÉ invites you to immerse yourself in the essence of Venice, where past and present blend into one fascinating tale and the stories, scattered like shells on the beach, each with its own beauty and mystery, are recomposed into a precious mosaic.

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Directing notes
The clowning we practise has always been intimately linked to tradition and carries with it echoes of the language of the Commedia dell’Arte.
We come from a theatre of amazement and simplicity, which we have contaminated over the years by using increasingly fascinating scenic machines, inventing a visual aesthetic that is unique to us. We build shows in which we immerse multidisciplinary performers in rarefied universes where wonder sometimes manifests itself in a naive, sometimes ingenious, sometimes surreal way.
The dramaturgy of our shows often seems fragmented and allusive, perhaps because we always refer to the architecture of oneiric language that uses words sparingly but questions us with contradictory images, allusions and mirages. There will be reflections in the water, the diaphanous blurriness when the clouds descend low and low, and the mythical game of masquerade that reminds us of veiling oneself in order to reveal oneself and then reveal oneself again: the three magical movements that magicians and shamans know and hand down. There will be the night and its madness, the buffoons' antics, objects that will levitate, acrobats that will fly, surreal rain and a continuous recreation of impossible balances. There will be traditional characters that in a kaleidoscopic game will be multiplied, doubled, dismantled and reconstructed. A show in which, as always, we will pursue lightness while maintaining a continuous dialogue made of empathy with the audience.
We will stage the world of the Guitti, who this time will present themselves as skilful prestidigitators. There will be Venice with its splendour, its atmospheres, its poetry and the mysteries that inhabit it.
The challenge of this collaboration between the Teatro Goldoni, the Compagnia Gli Ipocriti Melina Balsamo and our group of creators, which this year celebrates 40 years of adventurous artistic partnership, is to construct a Comedy that is both comic and astonishing.
A production imagined for an audience that on Venetian summer nights will want to immerse themselves in a dreamlike journey. A show then destined to travel the world, taking us back to the theatres that have welcomed us in the 46 countries we have visited so far. I am thinking of a cast of ten performers made up of acrobats, actors and musicians, and I intend to avail myself of the collaboration of artists with whom I have created productions for the theatre, opera and even Olympic ceremonies in recent years, including: Hugo Gargiulo assisted by Matteo Verlicchi at set design, Maria Bonzanigo as composer, Giovanna Buzzi as costume designer. I also imagine collaborating with Venetian artists, young performers, artisans and historical collaborators of the Goldoni Theatre so that I can better discover the theatre's own language and magic.

Daniele Finzi Pasca