SOLO is a 90-minute surrealist show, made of magic, illusions, lights, lasers. 10 sketches during which over 50 characters come to life thanks to the talent of the great Italian quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Arturo tells his fantasies and his dreams through a miniature house, symbolizing the memories that each of us holds in their heads and in their hearts. The house becomes a set and Arturo invites the public to come and go through 7 different rooms, each one associated with a memory or a fantasy that Arturo wanders through with his magic and transformations.

After the incredible success of “L’Uomo dai Mille Volti” and of “Ciak si gira”, and the triumph of the recent tour of Canada and France Comedy Majik Cho, the “Italy’s most famous tuft” goes back to his birthplace, Italy, with a new extraordinary and unpredictable show: Brachetti Che Sorpresa!

After having seduced the whole world with his show dedicated to the art of transformation, Arturo Brachetti today speaks of magic, in the company of his friends.
Great connoisseur of the visual arts, always looking for new trends but never forgetting the foundations of tradition, Arturo Brachetti is the presenter of a show that looks like him and offers an extraordinary combination of magic and humor.

It starts with a traditional number, through a bizarre universe, winking humor, until he unleashes the unusual: this show is a journey into the world of magic where each guest reveals his last extraordinary creations.

A show full of laughter and colorful spectacle, in a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional cabaret, led by the one who continues to fascinate us with the magic.

After several years of absence as solo-artist of his show, Brachetti returns as protagonist in a one-man show that encloses, as in “Man of a 1000 faces” the best of his repertoire.

“Ciak si gira!” (action!) is the magic phrase that evokes the moment when the craftsman of the film creates the dream and is the title by which Brachetti takes us on an amazing journey into the cinema.

In a series of numbers, theatrical and evocative moments, in a new scenic setting, Arturo relives his love for the seventh art. The show begins with a huge TV where Arturo turns in the characters that populated the afternoon movies, the ones that we all have seen and loved since childhood: Zorro, Mary Poppins, Maciste, Cruella De Vil, cowboys, pirates and adventurers. Arturo then recalls being, still a teenager, the Museum of Cinema in Turin, his city and to have particularly remembered the Horror section. He creates then a fun frenzy of meetings, where the priest of “The exorcist” comes face to face with Nosferatu, served by undertaker on duty. The monster of Halloween, after having chopped the possessed girl, loses his head and literally finds it between his own knees. As in any self-respecting horror, the paintings speak, ghosts disappear and tables fly.

Arturo tells the story of the characters that influenced him a lot in his very first cinema experiences, from Baby Jane to musicals … then there is the story of Lon Chaney, also called “the man of a 1000 faces”, which was the pioneer of facial make-up for create characters now become icons of cinema. Arturo revives through quick costume changes and make-up all the characters made famous by the actor such as the Phantom of the Opera, Quasimodo, Fu-Manchu, scary clowns and melancholic Pierrots.

In another more intimate moment Arturo revives the oldest cartoons in the world as Chinese shadows, or the grandfather’s hat with which he transformed from a small, in dozens of characters, or even the number of fantasy: “everything out of nothing“.

The evocation of the world of Fellini closes the first part of the show, as a maximum combination of scenic invention and dreamlike evocation. The play had already one of the most touching moments and visually inventive of the previous show Brachetti.

The second part of the show is almost entirely dedicated to the great Hollywood films with a parade of characters that rivals a film library: Charlie Chaplin, Gene Kelly, King Kong, Shreck, Liza Minneli, Gollum, Harry Potter, Carmen Miranda, E. T. Judy Garland, Jack Sparrow, Snow White, Darth Vader, and many, many more, creating a hilarious and surprising film zapping. Arturo does magic, disappears, flies…

After more than sixty transformations and magical surprises, the show ends with a poetic and spectacular evocation, a thank you to all the objects and more mundane actions that have become memorable thanks to their use in film … from Méliès’ moon, Tarzan’s howl and ET’s bike.

Arturo Brachetti in Naples brings his friends, amazing performers specifically gathered for this occasion.

This is the first appointment of a project that will take shape in the coming years and that will develop in the next theater season with Magiko !, show born from the sparkling fantasy of Arturo.
Brachetti wanted to experience in Naples the first steps of the new lab, for the great theatrical tradition that this city has.

An evening with the memories and imagination that Arturo shares with his audience, starting from the beginning and the first magic numbers up to meetings with some of the most talented artists known in his long national and international career. Some of them are with him on the stage:
The lucchettino (Luca Regina and Tino Fimiani), hilarious and improbable comic magicians who can not resist;
Luca Bono, young talent illusionism with the impossible in the hands;
Mister David, breathtaking juggling capable of balancing extremes and enthralling performances by escapology;
Andrzej & Tomasz, acrobats Poles with the famous steel body worldwide for the strength and grace of their performance.

A show with amazing effects that provide an evening of magical dreams as well, that can happen!

English adaptation of the show “Man of a 1000 faces”, it was performed at the Garrick Theatre in London from 19 October 2009 to 3 January 2010. It was nominated in the category “Best Entertainment” for the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, the most prestigious London theater award.
Arturo Brachetti is the only Italian artist to have been well received 2 nominations (the first in 1983 with “Y” in the category “Best New Comedy”) to one that is internationally regarded as the highest honor of the English theater.

The show which blends the flair and imaginative fantasy of Arturo with the traditions of Variety and Music-Hall. Brachetti, this time, is presented along with a unique human fauna, international attractions, comic characters, ballets, but also transformations, illusions and surprises.

A group of tourists visits a long-ago abandoned theater that it going to be torn down to make way for a supermarket very soon. But a ghost traps them inside asking in exchange for freedom a show that meets the “theater of desire” Ghost.
Brachetti, the guide of the group, pushing tourists to prove himself, with surprising results …