Saturday September 13th, the theater play "La Giulietta," produced by Veronese Enrico Carretta and directed by Andrea de Manincor, took place in the evocative setting of the garden, against the backdrop of the north facade of Villa Selvatico.
The show reimagined the celebrated story of Romeo and Juliet, drawing on the novella "La Giulietta" by the sixteenth-century writer Luigi da Porto, who first narrated the story of the two star-crossed lovers from Verona. Andrea de Manincor, with an original dramatization, brings to the stage, in addition to the two excellent lead actors Sabrina Modenini and Edoardo Billato, puppets intended to represent some of the story's characters, but also to serve as alter egos of the protagonists, who, in an imaginary time, question their own feelings and tragic experiences.
"Before Shakespeare took up this story and Verona found in it almost a sort of semi-foundational myth (at least in terms of "City of Love"), a man-at-arms had written it in the typical tones of a language still in need of improvement, a language indebted to the creative efforts of Dante and the explanatory efforts of Pietro Bembo. The man-at-arms was named Luigi da Porto, himself the scion of a family feuding with a collateral branch of the same family." (A. de Manincor)
Preceding the performance, a reading by Alessandra da Porto commemorated the historical and literary figure of her ancestor Luigi da Porto.
The performance was made possible thanks to the support of the Municipality of Vigonza, which strongly supported its presentation here, with the artistic direction of the Echidna Cultural Association.