UMBERTO ORSINI

WITTGENSTEIN’S NEPHEW

Story of a friendship

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  • 6 November 2020 - 20:30 Teatro Comunale -
  • 7 November 2020 - 20:30 Teatro Comunale -
  • 8 November 2020 - 16:00 Teatro Comunale -
FULL PRICE REDUCED RATE PRIME
Stalls 32.00 26.00 40.00
Central Box – Front Row 31.00 25.00 39.00
Central Box – Second Row 22.00 18.00
Side Box – Front Row 25.00 21.00
Lower Gallery – Front Row 19.00 15.00
Upper Gallery – Front Row 10.00

 

Reduced rates for the under 30 year olds: 40% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
Reduced group rates (new season ticket holders): 15% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
Over 65’s reduced rates 20% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
PRIME area seats stalls and central stage front row. The best seats in the house for comfort, visibility and acoustics. An all round PRIME experience.

 

 

 

by

Thomas Bernhard

translation

Renata Colorni

adapted by

Patrick Guinand

with

Umberto Orsini
and with Elisabetta Piccolomini

scenes

Jean Bauer

direction

Patrick Guinand

costumes

Pierre Albert

lights

Hervé Gary

production
Compagnia Umberto Orsini

Wittgenstein’s nephew is a text that imposes a “solo” recitation, yet the relationship with the silent female presence that is on stage is absolutely fundamental. It is a difficult and demanding test as an actor. I have to be very careful not to be overwhelmed by emotion. I am used to managing my strength to yield to emotions according to the text, but there are moments, in the nephew, in which the emotions try to escape me and often I feel them tightening around my throat.
Umberto Orsini

The absolute protagonist, Orsini is Bernhard’s literary projection intent on portraying himself as he tells a silent listener the story of a singular friendship, of a relationship between two madmen: the first is Bernhard himself, who was able to dominate his madness, the second is Paul Wittgenstein, dominated by his madness and died in an asylum; half real and half imaginary character, nephew of the famous Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.