From Chekhov's love letters to Proietti '70 at the theater weekend

From the long-distance love between Chekhov and his muse to the return of the "Cabaret Metamorphoses" and a vintage Gigi Proietti struggling with windmills. These are some of the theatrical appointments of next weekend, still at a distance, between streaming, TV and social networks. MILAN - "Dog, crocodile, dachshund, old lady, love me or I'll marry a millipede, but blessed is the distance that separates us". And again, "I promise to be a wonderful husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, does not appear in my sky every day." It is a love 800 letters long, a web of words that unravels between Crimea and Moscow, through the sidereal distances of Russia in the late nineteenth century, the one that is consummated between Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, the great actress who interprets his works and companion in life. An inevitable distance: his illness forces him to seek the (relatively) warm climate of Crimea, her work keeps her on the Moscow stages. But perhaps all this makes their passion even more feverish. Today Ferdinando Bruni and Ida Marinelli give life to their correspondence with "It's been a long time since I drink champagne ... Ten paintings on the distance", a visual project in streaming for a week right from 14 February, the day of lovers, on the Elfo Puccini website (elfo.org), in a visual and virtual game that uses the green screen technique. RAI5 - Three months after his death, a real treat to pay homage to Gigi Proietti. It is "The fabulous story of Don Quixote della Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza, invented by Cervantes, reconstructed and represented in a television studio by a company of actors and musicians with Ronzinante and the Donkey, real animals". An adaptation, with an interminable title, with which the director Carlo Quartucci in 1970 brought Cervantes' poem to TV. Five episodes recorded in the Rai Studios in Naples and in the adjacent streets, now broadcast from February 12 at 3.50 pm on Rai5. Next to Proietti the protagonist is Claudio Remondi in the role of the faithful squire. ROME - After the success of the first edition, with over 111,000 views and 1,700,000 users, the "Metamorphosis cabaret" is back, the second part of the Kafka-inspired cabaret directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti from the Argentine stage. Streaming on the social channels of the Teatro di Roma, this new, mysterious and even more experimental version will unfold in four Sunday episodes, on 14, 21, 28 February and 7 March, continuing the journey in and out of Rome. Protagonists, the actors and actresses of the Integrated Theater Laboratory Piero Gabrielli led by Roberto Gandini, as well as Francesca Astrei, Giovanni Prosperi, Giulia Trippetta, Ivan Talarico and Luca Nostro, with the exceptional presence of Filippo Timi. ROME - The story of the dramatic expedition of Italian soldiers in the Russian campaign. One of the most painful and shameful pages of the Second World War in which Mussolini sent 220,000 men ill-armed and inadequate to face the winter into disarray. For the Vittoria Theater, Elia Marcelli, one of the few survivors of that tragedy, with Carlo Lizzani and Stefano Messina bring "Li Romani in Russia" to Mymovies.it until February 14, with the staging recorded live in January of the same Messina and the adaptation by Marcello Teodonio. VERONA - "We kidnapped William Shakespeare - He's fine, he's in good hands, just, we had other plans for him". It is with a title that is already a story that the third edition of the theatrical review of Casa Shakespeare debuts, the first in "Streaming Drama", until March 26 on the social networks of the Satiro Off Theater. On the bill, 7 shows for 14 reruns, in which the actor becomes an interpreter and also operator of himself, including titles such as "Romeo & Juliet", "Midsummer - The dream of the theater", "Othello", up to the trilogy dedicated to Dante Alighieri for 700 / o of death . TURIN - Unpredictable, brilliant, provocative. Leo Bassi, a true monument of world clowning, is staging his new show "Pandemia" on Saturday 13 February from Caffé Muller, inspired by the times we are living in and the result of a career spanning 40 years lived halfway between the comedian, the street theater, circus art and political theater. (HANDLE).