Presentation
Solness is a great builder who erects his own fortune on the ashes of his wife’s family home, robbing her of any possible future happiness.
Solness is terrified by the young who come knocking at the door asking for the old to step aside. But young Hilde does not care about knocking, she decides to barge in with an erotic charge and explosive energy.
She has returned to lay claim to her realm as a Princess. That castle in the sky which the great builder promised her ten years prior.
Solness feeds off the life of the women who surround him but this one is going to be fatal and will accompany him, lovingly, to the edge of the precipice.
If Solness is a builder, Ibsen is a perfect architect capable of erecting a house with a perfectly bourgeois and ordinary appearance, inside the walls of which hide forgotten princesses, demons and magical assistants at the master’s service.
The underlying Judgement Day in Ibsen’s entire work finds its explicit final declaration in the moment when, at the apex of three constantly tense acts, we will be led to the final conviction. An inexorable sentence which Solness will be inflicting upon himself, without mercy.
Solness suffers from vertigo, he has already climbed to the summit of a tower in a fit of delirium of omnipotence, conquering the fear of the void to the point of personally addressing God, threatening to no longer build any churches for him. But after ten years the guilt towards his wife and the fear of losing his place to the younger generations will weaken him and when Hilde will lead him once again to the summit of one of his works, he will realize that all he has ever created as a man and as an artist is too frail to withstand the weight of lost happiness.
Credits
By | Henrik Ibsen
With | Umberto Orsini
And with | Chiara Degani, Salvo Drago, Lucia Lavia, Pietro Micci, Renata Palminiello
And with | Flavio Bonacci
Direction, scenes, lights, costumes | Alessandro Serra
Sound Design | Alessandro Saviozzi and Alessandro Serra
Assistant director | Chiara Michelini
Light design collaboration| Carlo Pediani
Costume collaboration | Francesca Novati
Linguistic consultant | Donata Feroldi
Head Stage Technician | Marco Parlà
Audio Technician | Massimo Poloni
Press Office | Luana Nisi
Organization | Paolo Broglio Montani
Production | Francesco Feletti
Set realization | Laboratorio Scenotecnico Pesaro
Production | Compagnia Umberto Orsini, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
In collaboration with | Compagnia Teatropersona
Video
Images
Press
IL GIORNALE MILANO | Un superbo Orsini eleva la “favola” di Ibsen | Andrea Bisicchia
SOLE 24 ORE | Ibsen in un precipizio verticale | Renato Palazzi
LA REPUBBLICA | La cattiveria di Ibsen smaschera i superuomini | Anna Bandettini
IL GIORNALE DI VICENZA | La zia, Orsini e un teatro sublime | Marco Cavalli
LA PROVINCIA | Piccoli omicidi Con Orsini e il suo Solness | Mattia Mantovani
MODULAZIONI TEMPORALI | Il Costruttore Solness | A.B.
OLIMPIA IN SCENA | I fantasmi di Solness | Francesco Bettin
DEL TEATRO | Il costruttore Solness | Maria Grazia Gregori
LO SPETTACOLIERE | Quando si desidera il male | Paolo A. Paganini
L’ARENA | Orsini mattatore nella sfida di Solness | Elisabetta Papa