Naples Queer Festival: A Day of Unmissable Events

Wednesday, March 20th marks the second day of events at the Naples Queer Festival with four must-attend appointments. The day begins at 11:00 AM at the Center for Studies on Neapolitan, Southern, and European Theater, with the dramaturgy workshop 'Play List – Chamber Music', led by Domenico Ingenito. At 5:30 PM, cinema takes the stage at the Nuovo Theater, starting with a meeting featuring director Simone Bozzelli, curated by Mario/Marylou Di Martino (cultural producer and artistic director), followed by the screening of the film 'Patagonia', directed by Bozzelli and starring Andrea Fuorto, Augusto Mario Russi, Elettra Mallaby, Alexander Benigni. At 9:00 PM in Sala Assoli, it's time for the highly anticipated group Nina’s Drag Queens (Alessio Calciolari, Gianluca Di Lauro, Lorenzo Piccolo, Ulisse Romanò), with Nina’s Radio Night, the first show created by the company. It's a carefree and futuristic adventure that combines variety acts and theatrical structure, '70s sci-fi, soap opera, espionage and mystery, impossible interviews, and unforgettable songs. This is followed by the Nina’s DJ-set Spaccatacchi Evening, a musical selection to truly unleash everyone. The dramaturgy workshop Playlist – Chamber Music is conceived as an opportunity for different writings to coexist in the same place. The setting is an imaginary hotel where each playwright is tasked with working on a single room and narrating what could happen in such a small space, without the possibility of leaving. In each room, characters listen to a song. What happens in a hotel room while listening to music or humming it? What happens in that room that does not allow the characters to leave? At what moment do we choose to give them a voice? The presentation, scheduled for March 24th in Sala Assoli, will be the reading of the materials produced during the workshop. The film 'Patagonia' tells the story of Yuri, a boy trapped in a life without sparks by an aunt who treats him like a child, and who finds in Agostino, a vagabond already a man but with the spirit of a boy, the push to leave and to leave behind a cage of too much love and a boring town on the Abruzzo coast. Recruited as an assistant by Agostino, a children's birthday party entertainer, he gets on his camper and starts a nomadic life. Along the roads of central Italy, between a cigarette, a joint, and a CD that gets stuck, an ambiguous relationship made of rewards and punishments is born between Agostino and Yuri and the promise of a journey to the land of fire, in Patagonia. But first, one must work, earn. Otherwise, how can one leave? However, it's always Yuri who works, especially when Agostino turns off the camper in a village where there's always a party to the sound of techno. Thus, for Yuri, Patagonia becomes ever more distant. The relationship with Agostino becomes increasingly claustrophobic, like the walls of that camper. The show 'Nina’s Radio Night' was born within the Ringhiera Theater. After many experiments with extemporaneous happenings, tied to the life of the theater and its festivals, the group felt the need to create a proper show that could be 'exported'. The starting point of the story is the fascination for the great divas of the past, here embodied by the Radio. It's the year 2222 and radios have not existed for centuries: communication passes through other channels and the dictatorship of the image has silenced all frequencies. A group of courageous DJs, in love with that forgotten instrument, challenges the times and the terrible threat of an Orwellian anti-radio police, capturing and retransmitting sound traces of the past that still navigate the ether. And to avoid being discovered, they need an idea: to disguise the clandestine transmission as a theatrical show. Supported by the generosity of a faceless philanthropist – the mysterious Aristide Priscilla – among relics of every kind and modern reinterpretations of the old classics of what was once the Radio, the nostalgic and rebellious hosts will guide the audience to rediscover the ancient charm of imagination. Following this, the Nina’s will also star in the Spaccatacchi Evening: a DJ-set without excluding heels, featuring great classics of disco music, revival, rock, electronic, and remixes of every 'gender'. A drag, pop, and colorful party, with the Nina’s at the console.