Deep below the streets of Naples, a drama unfolds Neil Cooper looks how Tron Theatre director Andy Arnold got involved on an Italian production staged in underground caves
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ON the balcony of a former Naples brothel, now a hotel which still has a 1927 price-list on its reception wall, a very tall man wearing glasses and a rubber nose is calling to the person below. The tall man with the false nose declaims in what sounds like comic Italian, and tries in vain to attract the attention of the man below, who remains blase, as if this sort of attention-seeking exercise, which resembles something out of Cyrano de Bergerac, happens every day. Which, in the world of Tron Theatre artistic director Andy Arnold, is probably the case.
Arnold is in Naples to direct Monaciello, a site-specific piece commissioned and co-produced by the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia after it became aware of Arnold's work during his lengthy tenure at The Arches where he explored every nook and cranny of the then derelict and unexplored railway sidings beneath Glasgow's Central Station. He did this first with the ad hoc company put together for 1990's City of Culture celebrations, Glasgow's Glasgow, then later with underground epics Beowulf and Inferno and the more intimate promenade works I Confess and Spend A Penny.See the full content of this document
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Deep below the streets of Naples, a drama unfolds Neil Cooper looks how Tron Theatre director Andy Arnold got involved on an Italian production staged in underground caves
It was as a direct result of I Confess that Arnold attracted the attention of Naples Theatre Festival, which invited him to develop a show here. The result, which takes place in a network of underground caves that wind their way deep beneath the city's surface, promenades its audience through a living his...
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