The Baron in the Trees, love and rebellion

Running up a tree. Eating snails is out of the question. Luckily, not all children react like Cosimo: it would be tiring. Also because from there, the boy (12 years old) decides never to come down. Goodbye, earth with all your burdens! Better an existence among the branches, observing the world go by from above. Unforgettable "The Baron in the Trees" , with its mad love for life and rebellion. A few years ago, Riccardo Frati had the audacity to bring it to the stage. A challenge. A resounding success. Since the Piccolo is proposing it for the fourth time, from today until October 12th at the Teatro Grassi in Via Rovello to open the new season of "Complemento di Relazione". Astonishing numbers. Thanks also to the excellent team on stage: Mauro Avogadro, Nicola Bortolotti, Matteo Cecchi, Leonardo De Colle, Michele Dell'Utri, Diamara Ferrero, Diana Manea, Tarek Tomei. And an adaptation of rigorous fidelity to the novel , written by the director himself. It's no coincidence that he developed the staging around verticality. Thanks to platforms and walkways. To underscore the urgency of raising our eyes. To detach our gaze from our feet (from screens, from fears). The rest is Calvino . The lightness, the political wit, the poetry. Here, sharing the eighteenth-century adventures of Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò , scion of a noble family from Ombrosa. A journey of formation. In the trees. Among pirates, bandits, revolutionaries. The great love for Viola. Before a hot air balloon passes by. And we fly away. Diego Vincenti

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