Luna Park – like a fairground ride

A show-installation lasting 20 minutes in which successive groups of up to 25 spectators are led onto the stage along a preestablished route, with social distancing rules being respected at all times. We will accompany spectators on a “fairground ride”, an immersive, emotional and somehow nostalgic experience taking them into the heart of the show.

A different way of living our theatre that will make each spectator a participant in a unique experience.

For groups of up to a maximum of 25 people, with around 50 “fairground rides” a day lasting 20 minutes each. From 8 to 20 September at Lugano LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura).

Program

Luna Park is like a “fairground ride” inside stage machinery and the secret world of actors and clowns. A return to the origins of the Compagnia Finzi Pasca, wholly devoted to today’s public, who can let themselves be transported by lights, colours, mirrors, music and by the nostalgia of a surprising and light-hearted age.

After the four hours without intervals of Einstein on the Beach at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva and the thrilling adventure of the Fête des Vignerons, the Ticino company’s latest creation will be concentrated into a time span the length of a fairground ride.

Fairgrounds are places that are suspended in time, nostalgic, where worlds of light and mirrors generate emotions, surprises and gaiety. There is mystery in fairgrounds… as in this show, where in small groups the public will travel in a dream, behind the stage curtain, discovering unique and secret points of view and living the stage together with the actors, close to them as never before but in complete safety.

“At the beginning of the year we built a large theatre installation in Moscow, visited by more than 15,000 spectators over a 24-hour period. Fresh from this experience, and faced with the current situation, we asked ourselves how to devise a show that maintains and preserves our poetic vision, reflecting on how to get closer when we should move away… perhaps trying to build something monumental, surprising, totally immersive. A conclusion that will probably mark a new way of seeing theatre in our parts.”

Daniele Finzi Pasca, June 2020

A Compagnia Finzi Pasca production

Co-produced with

LAC (Lugano, Arte e Cultura)

Creation partners

Cornèrcard

Fidinam

Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola

Caffè Chicco d’Oro

AIL

Sintetica – partner alla ricerca

With the support of

Città di Lugano

Cantone Ticino

Pro Helvetia