Harlequin?

text and direction Marco Baliani
with Andrea Pennacchi
and with Marco Artusi, Maria Celeste Carobene, Miguel Gobbo Diaz, Margherita Mannino, Valerio Mazzucato, Anna Tringali
music by Giorgio Gobbo arranged and performed live by the duo “I sordi”
production Gli ipocriti Melina Balsamo in co-production with Teatro Stabile del Veneto

Harlequin? Andrea Pennacchi's performance shocks the many Harlequins who have immortalized this character over time: lapses, exits, and departures from the script bring the masks into dialogue with contemporary life, making them current, alive, and concrete.
Marco Baliani

A celebrated mask from the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, brought and reinvigorated into the contemporary world. Marco Baliani writes and directs Arlecchino? for Andrea Pennacchi, actor, playwright, and theater director. Arlecchino, with his clumsiness and cunning, traverses those territories of the human spirit that, in every age, reveal their eternal contradictions.