The bitter representation of the vulgarity of television and advertising, which Federico Fellini brought to the big screen in 1986 with Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni in the role of two elderly dancers, returns to life at the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara reinterpreted by Monica Guerritore and Massimiliano Vadoin in the show "Ginger & Fred" on stage on 12, 13 and 14 February.
Written and directed by Guerritore herself, Ginger & Fred are two former dancers, once famous, invited to perform in a private television Christmas show.
The protagonists, guests of the show, are excited for the evening that will bring them under the spotlight.
What they don't know is that, classified under "material of various humanity", they are necessary to keep the ruthless machinery of commercial television going, filling the gaps between one advertisement and another.
Amelia and Goofy, Ginger and Fred, are among these characters, but for them it's different: it was their talent that was admired, that shone under the spotlight, before Ginger gave up, leaving Fred alone and bewildered.
They find themselves here, they will try to reconnect that "hidden thread" and find the light again.
"It is in the observation of these small people - explains Monica Guerritore - in the understanding, in the participation in their lives revealed during the hours of waiting, in their humanization before being used as 'caricatures' and sent to the massacre, that the pietas that pushes Fellini to writing and directing Ginger & Fred. Fellini's world is illusion and suggestion. The scene does not describe but alludes, indicates another space: the lights of a party that has ended long ago, the signs of a Rimini disco, the Eden Rock. That is the world that welcomes Ginger and Fred. And tells the story of the end."
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